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 10:33They set forward from the Mount of Yahweh three days’ journey. The ark of Yahweh’s covenant went before them three days’ journey, to seek out a resting place for them.
• Ps 95:11Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”
• Matt 11:28“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• Deut 1:33who went before you on the way, to seek out a place for you to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.
• Isa 63:7–14I will tell of the loving kindnesses of Yahweh and the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has given to us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he has given to them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
• Exod 1:16and he said, “When you perform the duty of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birth stool; if it is a son, then you shall kill him; but if it is a daughter, then she shall live.”
• Exod 33:14He said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
• Ezek 20:14–17But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
• Exod 17:8–13Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
• Exod 14:8–12Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.
• Neh 9:12–15Moreover, in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
• Ps 78:23–29Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
• Deut 8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
• Exod 15:9–10The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
• Deut 2:7For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years, Yahweh your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.
• Exod 1:22Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”
• Heb 4:8–9For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
• Num 14:20Yahweh said, “I have pardoned according to your word:
• Jer 2:2“Go, and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
• Ps 105:37–43He brought them out with silver and gold. There was not one feeble person among his tribes.
• Deut 1:30Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
• Ps 78:52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
• Ps 136:16–24To him who led his people through the wilderness; for his loving kindness endures forever:
• Ps 78:14–16In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
• Deut 12:9for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
• Deut 8:2–3You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• Exod 12:37The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.
• Exod 5:21and they said to them, “May Yahweh look at you, and judge, because you have made us a stench to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
• Exod 2:23In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

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