Jeremiah 31:2
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.””
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“This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thus said Jehovah: Found grace in the wilderness Hath a people remaining from the sword Going to cause it to rest--Israel.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 31:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 1:16“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
- Exodus 1:22Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”
- Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Exodus 5:21“May the LORD look upon you and judge you,” the foremen said, “for you have made us a stench before Pharaoh and his officials; you have placed in their hand a sword to kill us!”
- Exodus 12:37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
- Exodus 14:8And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly.
- Exodus 15:9The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
- Exodus 17:8After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
- Exodus 33:14And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
- Numbers 10:33So they set out on a three-day journey from the mountain of the LORD, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD traveling ahead of them for those three days to seek a resting place for them.
- Numbers 14:20“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
- Deuteronomy 1:30The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
- Deuteronomy 1:33who went before you on the journey, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day, to seek out a place for you to camp and to show you the road to travel.
- Deuteronomy 2:7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
- Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
- Deuteronomy 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- Deuteronomy 12:9For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Nehemiah 9:12You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
- Psalms 78:14He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
- Psalms 78:23Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
- Psalms 78:52He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
- Psalms 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
- Psalms 105:37He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
- Psalms 136:16He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
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