Cross references

Habakkuk 2:12

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed

and establishes a town by iniquity!

Habakkuk 2:12 BSB

Habakkuk 2:12 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Micah 3:10 (12 votes) and Nahum 3:1 (6 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 4 to Revelation 17.

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Which verses does Habakkuk 2:12 point to?

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

  1. Micah 3:1012 votes

    who build Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity.

  2. Nahum 3:16 votes

    Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

  3. Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.” All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar. …

  4. At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”

  5. “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages, who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion. …

  6. I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

  7. Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.” …

  8. In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.

  9. Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.

  10. Then the chief priests and Pharisees convened the Sanhedrin and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” …

Which verses point to Habakkuk 2:12?

The 10 strongest of 21.