Cross references
Isaiah 54:16
Behold, I have created the craftsman
who fans the coals into flame
and forges a weapon fit for its task;
and I have created the destroyer
to wreak havoc.
Isaiah 54:16 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 9:16 (11 votes) and Proverbs 16:4 (11 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Exodus 9 to 1 Peter 4.
Which verses does Isaiah 54:16 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Exodus 9:1611 votes
But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
- Proverbs 16:411 votes
The LORD has made everything for His purpose—even the wicked for the day of disaster.
- Isaiah 46:114 votes
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
- Isaiah 10:5–63 votes
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
- Isaiah 10:153 votes
Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!
- Isaiah 37:262 votes
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
- Daniel 4:34–352 votes
But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- John 19:111 vote
Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”
Which verses point to Isaiah 54:16?
The 10 strongest of 16.