Cross references

Jeremiah 38:7

Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,

Jeremiah 38:7 BSB
  1. a Probably from the upper Nile region
  2. b Or eunuch

Jeremiah 38:7 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Amos 5:10 (5 votes) and Deuteronomy 21:19 (4 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Deuteronomy 21 to Hebrews 13.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 38:7 point to?

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

  1. Amos 5:105 votes

    There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.

  2. his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

  3. (This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)

  4. But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

  5. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to doing evil.

  6. “Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes. But I will deliver you on that day, declares the LORD, and you will not be delivered into the hands of the men whom you fear. …

  7. I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

  8. So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

  9. Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down the same road, but when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. …

  10. People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. And indeed, some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”

  11. The officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf,

Which verses point to Jeremiah 38:7?

The 10 strongest of 21.