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Jonah 2:8

Those who cling to worthless idols

forsake His loving devotion.

Jonah 2:8 BSB
  1. a Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.

Jonah 2:8 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 31:6 (15 votes) and 2 Kings 17:15 (13 votes). 30 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Deuteronomy 32 to Acts 14.

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Which verses does Jonah 2:8 point to?

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

  1. Psalm 31:615 votes

    I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

  2. 2 Kings 17:1513 votes

    They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

  3. Jeremiah 2:1313 votes

    “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

  4. 1 Samuel 12:2110 votes

    Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

  5. Jeremiah 10:810 votes

    But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

  6. Habakkuk 2:18–208 votes

    What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak. Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ or to silent stone, ‘Arise!’ Can it give guidance? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath in it at all.” …

  7. Jeremiah 10:14–157 votes

    Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

  8. Jeremiah 16:197 votes

    O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.

Which verses point to Jonah 2:8?

The 10 strongest of 30.