Psalms 22:12

Psalms · Old Testament · Chapter 22

“Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.”Psalms 22:12

What Does Psalms 22:12 Mean?

Psalms 22:12 is found in the book of Psalms, chapter 22, verse 12 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 Psalms 22:12 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Amos 4:1“Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.”Acts 4:27“For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,”Psalms 68:30“Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.”Isaiah 53:8“He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.”Matthew 27:1“When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:”Luke 22:44“And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”Psalms 118:11“They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.”Psalms 124:2“If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:”Ezekiel 39:18“Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.”Deuteronomy 32:14“Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.”1 Samuel 23:26“And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.”Psalms 18:4“The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.”Jeremiah 50:11“Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;”Jeremiah 50:27“Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.”Ezekiel 34:20“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.”Mark 12:7“But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our’s.”Luke 23:5“And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.”John 18:3“Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.”Numbers 21:33“And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.”1 Kings 4:13“The son of Geber, in Ramothgilead; to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; to him also pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brasen bars:”

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