Cross references

Isaiah 8:9

Huddle together,

O peoples, and be shattered;

pay attention, all you distant lands;

prepare for battle, and be shattered;

prepare for battle, and be shattered!

Isaiah 8:9 BSB
  1. a Or Raise the war cry or Be evil or Be broken

Isaiah 8:9 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 14:5–6 (7 votes) and 1 Kings 20:11 (5 votes). 70 other verses point back to it. It links with 27 other books, from Genesis 39 to Revelation 20.

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Which verses does Isaiah 8:9 point to?

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  1. The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

  2. And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

  3. The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright. But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  4. Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

  5. Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city. When it was reported to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind.

  6. Alas, the tumult of many peoples; they rage like the roaring seas and clamoring nations; they rumble like the crashing of mighty waters. The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

  7. Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack! Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong!’ …

  8. Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

  9. 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!

  10. If anyone attacks you, it is not from Me; whoever assails you will fall before you.

Which verses point to Isaiah 8:9?

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