Zephaniah 2 cross-references
Zephaniah 2 has 15 verses, which point to 247 other passages and are cited by 239. Below is the King James text of each verse with its strongest cross-references, ranked by OpenBible.info reader votes.
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Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;
Points to (14)
- Joel 1:14 — Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the… 7 votes
- 2 Chronicles 20:4 — And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they… 6 votes
- Esther 4:16 — Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink… 5 votes
- Nehemiah 9:1 — Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with… 5 votes
- Nehemiah 8:1 — And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate;… 5 votes
- Matthew 18:20 — For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 4 votes
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- Jeremiah 29:13 — And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. 20 votes
- Hosea 10:12 — Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the… 17 votes
- Zechariah 1:2 — The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. 3 votes
- Zechariah 7:7 — Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited… 2 votes
Zephaniah 2:2
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD'S anger come upon you.
Points to (21)
- Nahum 1:6 — Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured… 8 votes
- Hosea 13:3 — Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is… 7 votes
- Lamentations 4:11 — The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion,… 7 votes
- Isaiah 17:13 — The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far… 7 votes
- Psalms 1:4 — The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. 7 votes
- Zephaniah 3:8 — Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is… 6 votes
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- 1 Chronicles 16:11 — Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually. 41 votes
- Psalms 105:4 — Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore. 21 votes
- Jeremiah 4:4 — Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants… 5 votes
- Acts 2:20 — The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord… 4 votes
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Points to (41)
- Amos 5:14–15 — Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have… 31 votes
- Isaiah 26:20–21 — Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a… 20 votes
- Jeremiah 29:12–13 — Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 17 votes
- Psalms 76:9 — When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. 17 votes
- Jonah 3:9 — Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 16 votes
- Psalms 22:26 — The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. 16 votes
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- Micah 6:8 — He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to… 36 votes
- Matthew 5:5 — Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. 28 votes
- Amos 5:4 — For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 19 votes
- Isaiah 1:17 — Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 17 votes
Zephaniah 2:4
For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
Points to (8)
- Zechariah 9:5–7 — Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also shall see it, and be very sorrowful, and Ekron; for her… 10 votes
- Amos 1:6–8 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment… 6 votes
- Jeremiah 47:1–7 — The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote… 5 votes
- Jeremiah 25:20 — And all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the… 4 votes
- Ezekiel 25:15–17 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a… 2 votes
- Jeremiah 15:8 — Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of… 2 votes
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- Ezekiel 25:16 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut… 6 votes
- Amos 1:8 — And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will… 5 votes
- Amos 1:7 — But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, which shall devour the palaces thereof: 5 votes
- Amos 1:6 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment… 5 votes
Zephaniah 2:5
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
Points to (10)
- Ezekiel 25:16 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut… 6 votes
- Jeremiah 47:7 — How can it be quiet, seeing the LORD hath given it a charge against Ashkelon, and against the sea shore?… 5 votes
- Amos 3:1 — Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I… 4 votes
- Joshua 13:3 — From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the… 4 votes
- Mark 12:12 — And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable… 2 votes
- Zechariah 1:6 — But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your… 2 votes
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- 1 Samuel 30:14 — We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon… 5 votes
- Zephaniah 3:6 — I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by:… 4 votes
- Jeremiah 46:19 — O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate… 2 votes
- Jeremiah 2:15 — The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without… 2 votes
Zephaniah 2:6
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
Points to (4)
- Zephaniah 2:14–15 — And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the… 2 votes
- Ezekiel 25:5 — And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a couchingplace for flocks: and ye shall know… 2 votes
- Isaiah 17:2 — The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them… 2 votes
- Isaiah 5:17 — Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 2 votes
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- Isaiah 17:2 — The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them… 5 votes
- Isaiah 5:17 — Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 5 votes
- Jeremiah 33:12 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in… 3 votes
- Romans 9:29 — And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been… 2 votes
Zephaniah 2:7
And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.
Points to (32)
- Zephaniah 3:20 — At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a… 6 votes
- Exodus 4:31 — And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he… 6 votes
- Luke 1:68 — Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 5 votes
- Micah 5:3–8 — Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant… 5 votes
- Ezekiel 39:25 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the… 5 votes
- Micah 4:7 — And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall… 4 votes
Pointed to from (9)
- Jeremiah 29:10 — For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my… 7 votes
- Zephaniah 3:20 — At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a… 6 votes
- Zephaniah 3:13 — The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in… 6 votes
- Ruth 1:6 — Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard… 5 votes
Zephaniah 2:8
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Points to (6)
- Ezekiel 25:3–11 — And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha,… 4 votes
- Psalms 83:4–7 — They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in… 4 votes
- Amos 1:13 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away… 3 votes
- Jeremiah 49:1 — Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king… 3 votes
- Jeremiah 48:27–29 — For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou… 3 votes
- Ezekiel 36:2 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours… 2 votes
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- Amos 2:1 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment… 6 votes
- Jeremiah 30:16 — Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go… 6 votes
- Zechariah 2:8 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he… 5 votes
- Ezekiel 25:6 — For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced… 5 votes
Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
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- Isaiah 15:1–9 — The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the… 8 votes
- Isaiah 11:14 — But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east… 7 votes
- Deuteronomy 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor… 6 votes
- Isaiah 25:10 — For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw… 5 votes
- Jeremiah 48:1–49:6 — Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is… 4 votes
- Isaiah 49:18 — Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I… 4 votes
Pointed to from (32)
- Romans 14:11 — For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to… 6 votes
- Deuteronomy 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor… 6 votes
- 2 Peter 2:6 — And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an… 5 votes
- Isaiah 13:19 — And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew… 5 votes
Zephaniah 2:10
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
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- Isaiah 16:6 — We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath:… 6 votes
- Jeremiah 48:29 — We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and… 4 votes
- Zephaniah 2:8 — I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached… 3 votes
- 1 Peter 5:5 — Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be… 2 votes
- Obadiah 1:3 — The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation… 2 votes
- Daniel 5:20–23 — But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and… 2 votes
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- Ezekiel 25:6 — For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced… 4 votes
- Zechariah 9:6 — And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. 3 votes
- Lamentations 1:9 — Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she… 3 votes
- Jeremiah 48:27 — For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou… 2 votes
Zephaniah 2:11
The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.
Points to (30)
- Zechariah 14:9–21 — And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one. 4 votes
- Zechariah 13:2 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols… 4 votes
- Micah 4:1–3 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established… 4 votes
- Malachi 1:11 — For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the… 3 votes
- Zechariah 2:11 — And many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the… 3 votes
- Hosea 2:17 — For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name. 3 votes
Pointed to from (34)
- Isaiah 49:1 — Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the… 7 votes
- Jeremiah 10:11 — Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish… 6 votes
- Exodus 12:12 — For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,… 6 votes
- Genesis 10:5 — By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their… 5 votes
Zephaniah 2:12
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Points to (10)
- Ezekiel 30:4–9 — And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt,… 5 votes
- Jeremiah 51:20–23 — Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee… 3 votes
- Jeremiah 46:9–10 — Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans,… 3 votes
- Isaiah 43:3 — For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and… 3 votes
- Isaiah 20:4–5 — So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old,… 3 votes
- Isaiah 18:1–7 — Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 3 votes
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- Isaiah 18:1 — Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 5 votes
- Ezekiel 30:24 — And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break… 4 votes
- Ezekiel 21:3 — And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword… 3 votes
- Ezekiel 30:9 — In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain… 2 votes
Zephaniah 2:13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.
Points to (12)
- Nahum 3:7 — And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid… 5 votes
- Nahum 3:18–19 — Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon… 3 votes
- Nahum 1:1 — The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. 3 votes
- Isaiah 10:16 — Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall… 3 votes
- Isaiah 10:12 — Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on… 3 votes
- Zechariah 10:10–11 — I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them… 2 votes
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- Nahum 1:1 — The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. 6 votes
- Jonah 1:2 — Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 5 votes
- Nahum 1:8 — But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his… 4 votes
- Isaiah 10:5 — O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 4 votes
Zephaniah 2:14
And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
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- 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:… 3 votes
- Jeremiah 22:14 — That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled… 3 votes
- Isaiah 34:11–17 — But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he… 3 votes
- Isaiah 13:19–22 — And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew… 3 votes
- Revelation 18:2 — And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the… 2 votes
- Isaiah 14:23 — I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of… 2 votes
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- Isaiah 14:23 — I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of… 7 votes
- Isaiah 34:11 — But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he… 5 votes
- Psalms 102:6 — I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 5 votes
- Isaiah 5:17 — Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat. 4 votes
Zephaniah 2:15
This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
Points to (19)
- Ezekiel 28:2 — Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou… 6 votes
- Nahum 3:19 — There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the… 5 votes
- Ezekiel 28:9 — Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of… 5 votes
- Isaiah 47:7–8 — And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither… 5 votes
- Isaiah 22:2 — Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword,… 5 votes
- Lamentations 2:15 — All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,… 4 votes
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- Revelation 18:7 — How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she… 17 votes
- Isaiah 47:8 — Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine… 5 votes
- Ezekiel 27:36 — The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more. 4 votes
- Lamentations 2:15 — All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,… 3 votes