And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. Cross References Leviticus 26:32 And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled. 2 Chronicles 36:21 So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah. Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it." Isaiah 23:15 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years--the span of a king's life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot: Jeremiah 4:27 For this is what the LORD says: "The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction. Jeremiah 12:11 They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart. Jeremiah 12:12 Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace. Jeremiah 27:22 They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,' declares the LORD. 'Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.'" Jeremiah 28:14 For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.'" Jeremiah 29:10 For this is what the LORD says: "When Babylon's seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place. Jeremiah 43:10 Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them. Jeremiah 44:22 So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day. Daniel 9:2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet, that the desolation of Jerusalem would last seventy years. Micah 7:13 Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds. Zechariah 1:12 Then the angel of the LORD said, "How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?" Zechariah 7:5 "Ask all the people of the land and the priests, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? Treasury of Scripture And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. seventy. Jeremiah 25:12 2 Chronicles 36:21,22 Isaiah 23:15-17 |