Cross references

Isaiah 22:2

O city of commotion,

O town of revelry?

Your slain did not die by the sword,

nor were they killed in battle.

Isaiah 22:2 BSB

Isaiah 22:2 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 32:13 (5 votes) and Isaiah 23:7 (3 votes). 12 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from Isaiah 8 to Zephaniah 2.

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Which verses does Isaiah 22:2 point to?

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

  1. and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.

  2. Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

  3. If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”

  4. Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  5. On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

  6. So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it.

  7. Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

  8. “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.

  9. By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

  10. Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce. The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  11. You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence. You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall. …

Which verses point to Isaiah 22:2?

The 10 strongest of 12.