Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

Cross-reference

In Ezekiel 13:5, false prophets are condemned for not going up into the breaches—the same image of failing to intercede for Israel.

In Genesis 18:23-32, Abraham intercedes for Sodom—a model of standing in the breach that Ezekiel laments is missing among Israel.

In Exodus 32:10-14, Moses stands in the breach and turns away God's wrath—the very action Ezekiel says no one will perform.

In Psalm 106:23, Moses is described as standing in the breach to avert destruction—the exact role Ezekiel says no one fills.

Isaiah 59:16 mirrors this exactly: God saw no one to intervene, so His own arm brought salvation.

Isaiah 63:5 Parallel

Isaiah 63:5 repeats the same lament: no one to help, so God's own arm worked salvation.

Jeremiah 5:1 echoes God's search for a single righteous person to spare Jerusalem, matching the search here for someone to stand in the gap.

In Jeremiah 15:1, God says even Moses and Samuel could not intercede for this people—reinforcing the hopelessness of Ezekiel 22:30.

In Genesis 18:22, Abraham stands before the Lord to intercede—the posture that is absent in Ezekiel's search for a man.

In Genesis 18:26, God agrees to spare Sodom for fifty righteous—the kind of intercessor Ezekiel seeks but finds none.

Isaiah 64:7 Parallel

In Isaiah 64:7, the lament that no one calls on God or strives to lay hold of him mirrors the absence of an intercessor in Ezekiel.

Jeremiah 18:20 provides a positive example: Jeremiah himself stood before God to plead for the people — exactly what Ezekiel says was lacking.

Jeremiah 27:18 commands prophets to plead with the Lord to avert disaster — a direct call to do the very intercession that was missing in Ezekiel.

Jeremiah 30:13 declares there is no one to plead Zion's cause — a close verbal and thematic parallel to the absence of a gap-stander.

1 John 5:16 Parallel

1 John 5:16 calls believers to pray for sinning brothers — the intercessory role God sought here but found none.

Hosea 7:7 Parallel

Hosea 7:7 notes that none of Israel's leaders call on God — echoing the search for anyone who would intercede, though focused on rulers.