Isaiah 65:12

God will destine the rebellious to the sword because they refused to answer when He called. It matters because it shows judgment falls on those who reject God's gracious call.

Cross-references · 24

• Jer 7:13Now, because you have done all these works,” says Yahweh, “and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer:
• 2 Chr 36:15–16Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place;
• Isa 50:2Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
• Zech 7:11–13But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
• Matt 21:34–43When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.
• Zeph 1:4–6I will stretch out my hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place: the name of the idolatrous and pagan priests,
• Isa 3:25Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.
• Jer 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
• Jer 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
• Matt 22:3and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
• Deut 32:25Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
• Jer 34:17Therefore Yahweh says: “You have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor. Behold, I proclaim to you a liberty,” says Yahweh, “to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I will make you be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
• Isa 66:3–4He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
• Prov 1:24–33Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
• Zech 7:7Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’”
• Ezek 14:17–21“Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, ‘Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;’
• Isa 1:16Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
• Isa 27:1In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.
• Isa 65:3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
• Isa 10:4They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Isa 41:28When I look, there is no man; even among them there is no counselor who, when I ask of them, can answer a word.
• John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
• Lev 26:25I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
• Matt 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

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