Cross references

Obadiah 1:5

“If thieves came to you,

if robbers by night—

oh, how you will be ruined—

would they not steal only what they wanted?

If grape gatherers came to you,

would they not leave some gleanings?

Obadiah 1:5 BSB

Obadiah 1:5 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 24:21 (5 votes) and Jeremiah 49:9 (5 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 25 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Obadiah 1:5 point to?

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

  1. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

  2. If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings? Were thieves to come in the night, would they not steal only what they wanted?

  3. “Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

  4. Yet gleanings will remain, like an olive tree that has been beaten—two or three berries atop the tree, four or five on its fruitful branches,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.

  5. How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

  6. How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

  7. So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.

  8. How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

  9. Micah 7:12 votes

    Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.

  10. This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Which verses point to Obadiah 1:5?

The 10 strongest of 16.