Cross references

Habakkuk 1:16

Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet

and burns incense to his fishing net,

for by these things his portion is sumptuous

and his food is rich.

Habakkuk 1:16 BSB

Habakkuk 1:16 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 8:17 (4 votes) and Ezekiel 28:3 (4 votes). 27 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Deuteronomy 8 to 1 Timothy 6.

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Which verses does Habakkuk 1:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

  2. Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!

  3. the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

  4. Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

  5. For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers. My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’” …

  6. Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.

  7. Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

  8. Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Which verses point to Habakkuk 1:16?

The 10 strongest of 27.