Jeremiah 16:16
Jeremiah · Old Testament · Chapter 16
“Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.”Jeremiah 16:16
What Does Jeremiah 16:16 Mean?
Jeremiah 16:16 is found in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 16, verse 16 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Jeremiah 16:16 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Amos 4:2“The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.”Habakkuk 1:14“And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?”Amos 9:3“And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:”Micah 7:2“The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.”Ezekiel 32:3“Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.”Hosea 10:10“It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.”Revelation 6:15“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;”1 Samuel 26:20“Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.”Isaiah 7:19“And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.”Amos 9:1“I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.”Habakkuk 1:15“They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.”Genesis 10:9“He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.”Jeremiah 6:9“Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.”Jeremiah 7:11“Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.”Lamentations 4:18“They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.”Zephaniah 1:12“And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.”Revelation 6:8“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”2 Kings 15:37“In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.”Isaiah 2:19“And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.”Isaiah 24:17“Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.”
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