Cross references
Isaiah 14:17
who turned the world into a desert
and destroyed its cities,
who refused to let the captives
return to their homes?”
Isaiah 14:17 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Joel 2:3 (3 votes) and 2 Chronicles 28:8–15 (2 votes). 31 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Deuteronomy 30 to Zephaniah 2.
Which verses does Isaiah 14:17 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Joel 2:33 votes
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
- 2 Chronicles 28:8–152 votes
Then the Israelites took 200,000 captives from their kinsmen—women, sons, and daughters. They also carried off a great deal of plunder and brought it to Samaria. But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven. …
- Ezra 1:2–42 votes
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem. …
- Isaiah 13:19–222 votes
And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there. …
- Isaiah 45:132 votes
I will raise up Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He will rebuild My city and set My exiles free, but not for payment or reward, says the LORD of Hosts.”
- Isaiah 58:62 votes
Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
- Isaiah 64:102 votes
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation.
- Ezekiel 6:142 votes
I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Zephaniah 2:13–142 votes
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert. Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
Which verses point to Isaiah 14:17?
The 10 strongest of 31.