Cross references
Micah 1:16
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair
in mourning for your precious children;
make yourselves as bald as an eagle,
for they will go from you into exile.
Micah 1:16 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 22:12 (5 votes) and Job 1:20 (4 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Leviticus 10 to Amos 8.
Which verses does Micah 1:16 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Isaiah 22:125 votes
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- Job 1:204 votes
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
- Jeremiah 7:294 votes
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
- Jeremiah 16:63 votes
“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
- Amos 8:103 votes
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
- Deuteronomy 28:412 votes
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
- Deuteronomy 28:56–572 votes
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
- 2 Kings 17:62 votes
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- Isaiah 3:16–262 votes
The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles— the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will make their foreheads bare.” …
- Isaiah 15:22 votes
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- Isaiah 39:6–72 votes
- Jeremiah 6:262 votes
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
- Lamentations 4:5–82 votes
Which verses point to Micah 1:16?
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