2 Chronicles 7:20

Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

Cross-reference

Deuteronomy 28:37 is the original curse — being a proverb and byword — that this verse echoes as the Mosaic covenant consequence.

Lamentations 2:16 Prophetic fulfillment

Lamentations 2:16 continues the mockery — enemies gloating and saying they have swallowed Jerusalem up.

Lamentations 2:15 Prophetic fulfillment

Lamentations 2:15 shows the fulfillment — passersby wagging heads and mocking Jerusalem, exactly the byword described.

Jeremiah 24:9 uses the same 'proverb' curse language — God will make them a reproach and proverb among all nations.

Psalm 44:14 Allusion

Psalm 44:14 echoes the same idea — God making Israel a byword among the nations — as a lament over defeat.

2 Kings 17:20 Prophetic fulfillment

2 Kings 17:20 records the historical fulfillment: God rejected Israel and thrust them from His presence, exactly as warned here.

1 Kings 9:7 Parallel

1 Kings 9:7 is the parallel account of the same threat — nearly word-for-word identical to this verse.

Luke 21:6 Prophetic fulfillment

Luke 21:6 also predicts the temple's stones thrown down, another NT fulfillment of the judgment threatened here.

2 Kings 21:7 Historical context

2 Kings 21:7 records Manasseh's idol in the temple — the very act that triggered God's promise to cast out the temple.

Mark 13:2 Prophetic fulfillment

Mark 13:2 predicts the temple's total destruction, fulfilling the warning of the house being cast out here.

Matthew 23:38 Prophetic fulfillment

Matthew 23:38 declares the temple left desolate, directly echoing the judgment of 'house cast out' from this verse.

Zechariah 8:13 reverses the curse into a blessing, using 'curse among nations' to recall the judgment here.

Joel 2:17 Allusion

Joel 2:17 prays for God not to make Israel a reproach and byword—the exact phrase used here, but as a plea to avert judgment.

Ezekiel 5:14 uses the same threat of being a reproach among nations, reinforcing the covenantal warning.

Deuteronomy 29:28 describes God uprooting Israel from their land — directly mirroring the uprooting threat here.

Jeremiah 40:2 Historical context

Jeremiah 40:2 quotes the captain of the guard acknowledging that the LORD threatened this disaster, confirming the warning in 7:20.

Jeremiah 22:8 describes nations asking why God destroyed the city, a specific instance of being a byword as warned in 7:20.

Jeremiah 16:13 threatens being hurled out of the land to serve other gods, mirroring the uprooting language in 7:20.

Jeremiah 2:17 declares that Israel brought disaster on themselves by forsaking God, echoing the cause of being uprooted in 7:20.

Jeremiah 45:4 speaks of God uprooting what He planted, a general judgment theme paralleling the specific threat to Israel.

Jeremiah 31:28 recalls God's pattern of uprooting and then planting, showing both judgment and restoration.

Leviticus 25:23 Historical context

Leviticus 25:23 states the land belongs to God — the theological basis for God's right to uproot Israel from it.

Jeremiah 18:7 describes God's sovereignty to uproot nations, reinforcing the conditional warning here.

Jeremiah 12:17 states God will uproot nations that do not listen, applying the same principle universally.