Cross references

Jeremiah 38:16

But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”

Jeremiah 38:16 BSB

Jeremiah 38:16 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 37:17 (6 votes) and Jeremiah 38:1–6 (5 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Numbers 16 to Hebrews 12.

GenesisMalachiMatthewRevelation

Which verses does Jeremiah 38:16 point to?

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

  1. Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”

  2. Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people: “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. …

  3. For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.

  4. This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:

  5. John 3:24 votes

    He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

  6. But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, when one man sins, will You be angry with the whole congregation?”

  7. “May the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation

  8. I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

  9. before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  10. This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to those who walk in it:

Which verses point to Jeremiah 38:16?

The 10 strongest of 16.