Jeremiah 15:1
Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 11:14 repeats the prohibition — God will not hear even if they cry out.
Jeremiah 7:16 gives the same command not to pray for these people — reinforcing that intercession is useless.
Jeremiah 7:15 threatens to cast Judah from God's presence just as Ephraim was, directly paralleling the rejection in 15:1.
Jeremiah 52:3 records the historical fulfillment of God thrusting Judah from His presence, confirming the prophecy in 15:1.
Jeremiah 23:39 repeats the judgment of being cast from God's presence, reinforcing the irreversible rejection prophesied here.
Jeremiah 14:11 again forbids prayer for this people — consistent refusal to relent.
Jeremiah 4:28 declares God has spoken and will not relent — directly echoing the unchangeable decree that makes even Moses and Samuel's pleas useless.
Jeremiah 11:15 shows religious rituals cannot avert judgment — reinforcing that nothing can turn away God's wrath.
Jeremiah 14:19 laments complete rejection — echoing the same irreversible verdict.
Jeremiah 16:5 states God has withdrawn all pity — reinforcing the total removal of mercy.
Jeremiah 27:18 urges prophets to plead — contrasting with the message that even the greatest intercessors cannot change God's mind.
Jeremiah 18:20 reveals Jeremiah himself standing before God to plead — a self-referential parallel to the intercessors named in 15:1.
Jeremiah 32:24 describes the siege fulfilling judgment — showing the reality of the irreversible verdict.
Jeremiah 13:10 describes the people as useless due to stubbornness — matching the theme of irreversible rejection.
Psalm 99:6 calls on Moses and Samuel as intercessors whom God answered — directly echoes the pair Jeremiah 15:1 cites.
Psalm 106:23 explicitly says Moses stood in the breach to avert God's wrath — the very role Jeremiah 15:1 says is now ineffective.
2 Kings 17:20 describes God rejecting Israel and thrusting them from His presence, a precedent for the judgment here.
1 Samuel 12:23 shows Samuel's commitment to pray — it grounds why he is named as a model intercessor in Jeremiah 15:1.
Samuel's intercession in 1 Samuel 7:9 brought victory — this example of his standing before God is what Jeremiah's verse references.
Ezekiel 14:14 uses Noah, Daniel, and Job — righteous men who could not save others, echoing Moses and Samuel's inability here.
In Numbers 14:13-20, Moses again intercedes after the spy rebellion, and God relents — a key precedent for Moses' effectiveness.
Exodus 32:11-14 records Moses pleading for Israel after the golden calf — the very intercession Jeremiah says would now be futile.
Luke 13:8 shows the vinedresser pleading for one more year for the fig tree—contrasting Jeremiah 15:1 where God rejects even Moses and Samuel's intercession.
Zechariah 8:14 recalls that God did not relent from punishing — the same irreversible resolve seen in Jeremiah 15:1.
Lamentations 3:44 says no prayer can get through — directly echoing the message that even Moses and Samuel cannot intercede successfully.
In Lamentations 4:11, God's fiery wrath devours Zion — the same unrelenting judgment Jeremiah 15:1 says even Moses and Samuel cannot avert.
Lamentations 5:22 asks if God has utterly rejected them — echoing the dismissal 'send them away from my presence' in Jeremiah 15:1.
Ezekiel 13:5 condemns false prophets for not standing in the breach — unlike in Jeremiah 15:1, where even Moses and Samuel could not intercede successfully.
Ezekiel 22:30 laments that no one stood in the breach to avert destruction — directly paralleling Jeremiah 15:1, where even the best intercessors fail.
Ezekiel 23:18 says God turned his heart from Oholibah — just as in Jeremiah 15:1, God's heart would not go out to the people.
In Hosea 1:9, God declares Israel 'not my people' — the same rejection as 'send them away from my presence' in Jeremiah 15:1.
2 Kings 17:18 says God removed Israel from His sight — a parallel to God's command to send Judah away from His presence in Jeremiah.
Exodus 32:30 shows Moses seeking atonement for Israel's sin, exemplifying the intercession that 15:1 declares ineffective for Judah.
In Numbers 11:2, Moses' prayer stopped the fire — a past example of his effective intercession, contrasted with God's refusal to hear even Moses now.
Numbers 21:7 records Moses praying for the people and being heard — another contrast to God's declaration that intercession will not help now.
Deuteronomy 9:14 shows God telling Moses to let Him alone to destroy Israel, but Moses interceded and God relented — contrast to the irreversible judgment here.
1 Samuel 3:14 declares that Eli's house cannot be atoned for — a parallel to God's fixed rejection of Judah despite any intercession.
1 Samuel 12:17 has Samuel calling on God and receiving thunder — a past instance of his effective intercession, contrasted with God's current refusal.
1 Samuel 16:1, God tells Samuel to stop mourning for rejected Saul — parallel to God telling Jeremiah not to intercede for a rejected people.
1 Kings 9:3, God hears Solomon's prayer and consecrates the temple — contrast to God's refusal to hear prayer for Judah now.
2 Kings 23:26 notes God's fierce anger did not turn away from Judah even after Josiah's reforms — parallel to the fixed judgment here.
2 Kings 24:3 states God removed Judah from His sight because of Manasseh's sins — parallel to the irreversible exile decree in Jeremiah.
In 2 Kings 24:4, Manasseh's innocent blood fills Jerusalem, and the Lord would not forgive — the same divine refusal to relent that makes intercession futile here.
2 Kings 25:11 describes the exile that actually happened — the direct historical outworking of God's decree to send the people away from His presence.
2 Chronicles 34:25 declares God's wrath will not be quenched because of idolatry — matching the irreversible judgment that even Moses and Samuel cannot avert.
2 Chronicles 34:28 promises Josiah he will die in peace before seeing the disaster — a stark contrast to the people who face God's unrelenting judgment.
In Job 42:8, God accepts Job's intercession for his friends — the opposite of this verse where even Moses and Samuel cannot sway God's heart.
Isaiah 6:9 shows God commanding a message that prevents understanding — a parallel form of divine refusal where God withholds response, like here with intercession.
Genesis 18:22 shows Abraham standing before the LORD in intercession for Sodom, paralleling Moses and Samuel's intercessory role in 15:1.
James 5:16 affirms the power of righteous prayer—contrasting Jeremiah 15:1 where even Moses and Samuel's prayer couldn't avert judgment.
Lamentations 2:5 portrays God as an enemy destroying Judah — paralleling the unreachable judgment.
Jonah 2:4 describes being 'driven away from your sight' — a personal echo of the corporate expulsion in Jeremiah 15:1, though with hope of return.
Proverbs 29:8 says the wise turn away wrath — but here God's wrath is so fixed that no human wisdom or intercession can turn it away.
Genesis 20:7 identifies Abraham as a prophet who intercedes, similar to the intercessors Moses and Samuel mentioned in 15:1.