Jeremiah 31:2

The survivors of the sword found grace in the wilderness as God led Israel to rest. God's past faithfulness assures future restoration.

Cross-references · 29

• Num 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.
• Ps 95:11So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”
• Matt 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
• Deut 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.
• Isa 63:7–14I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
• Exod 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.”
• Exod 33:14And the LORD answered, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
• Ezek 20:14–17But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
• Exod 17:8–13After this, the Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim.
• Exod 14:8–12And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out defiantly.
• Neh 9:12–15You 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.
• Ps 78:23–29Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.
• Deut 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.
• Exod 15:9–10The 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.’
• Deut 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.
• Exod 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.”
• Heb 4:8–9For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.
• Num 14:20“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
• Jer 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
• Ps 105:37–43He brought Israel out with silver and gold, and none among His tribes stumbled.
• Deut 1:30The LORD your God, who goes before you, will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt
• Ps 78:52He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
• Ps 136:16–24He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Ps 78:14–16He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
• Deut 12:9For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Deut 8:2–3Remember 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.
• Exod 12:37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
• Exod 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!”
• Exod 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.

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