Cross references
Isaiah 1:23
Your rulers are rebels,
friends of thieves.
They all love bribes
and chasing after rewards.
They do not defend the fatherless,
and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
Isaiah 1:23 has 27 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Micah 7:3 (7 votes) and Exodus 23:8 (6 votes). 54 other verses point back to it. It links with 27 other books, from Exodus 22 to James 1.
Which verses does Isaiah 1:23 point to?
The 20 strongest of 27, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Micah 7:37 votes
Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
- Exodus 23:86 votes
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.
- Zechariah 7:106 votes
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
- Luke 18:2–54 votes
“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men. And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ …
- Acts 4:5–114 votes
The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem, along with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and many others from the high priest’s family. …
- Isaiah 3:143 votes
The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.
- Isaiah 10:1–23 votes
Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Jeremiah 5:28–293 votes
They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy. Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
- Malachi 3:53 votes
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Luke 19:463 votes
He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- Deuteronomy 16:192 votes
- 2 Chronicles 24:17–212 votes
- 2 Chronicles 36:142 votes
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- Proverbs 17:232 votes
- Proverbs 29:242 votes
- Isaiah 33:152 votes
- Jeremiah 5:52 votes
- Jeremiah 22:172 votes
- Ezekiel 22:6–122 votes
- Daniel 9:5–62 votes
Which verses point to Isaiah 1:23?
The 10 strongest of 54.