Jeremiah 15:3

And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

Cross-reference

Jeremiah 15:9 mentions survivors given to the sword, directly linking to the sword among the four destroyers in Jeremiah 15:3.

Jeremiah 7:33 also describes carcasses devoured by fowls and beasts—same imagery as the four kinds in Jeremiah 15:3.

Jeremiah 16:4 explicitly repeats the image of corpses as food for birds and beasts, mirroring the four destroyers in Jeremiah 15:3.

Jeremiah 14:16 describes bodies thrown into the streets unburied, matching the fate of those devoured by dogs and birds in Jeremiah 15:3.

Leviticus 26:25 brings a sword as judgment, matching the 'sword' listed first among the four destroyers.

Ezekiel 14:21 also lists four severe judgments (sword, famine, wild beasts, pestilence) as God's instruments, paralleling Jeremiah's four destroyers.

Isaiah 56:9 Parallel

Isaiah 56:9 summons beasts to devour, matching the 'beasts of the earth' in the four destroyers.

Isaiah 18:6 Parallel

Isaiah 18:6 depicts birds and beasts devouring carcasses, directly corresponding to the birds and beasts among the four destroyers.

Leviticus 26:22 sends wild beasts to destroy, directly parallel to the 'beasts of the earth' among the four destroyers.

2 Kings 9:35–37 Prophetic fulfillment

2 Kings 9:35-37 narrates the fulfillment of dogs eating Jezebel, confirming the specific judgment of dogs from the four destroyers.

1 Kings 21:24 extends the curse to Ahab's house: dogs eat the dead in cities, birds in the field, paralleling two destroyers.

1 Kings 21:23 prophesies dogs eating Jezebel, matching the 'dogs to drag away' in the four destroyers.

Deuteronomy 28:26 describes bodies as food for birds and beasts, directly echoing two of the four destroyers.

Psalm 79:2 Parallel

Psalm 79:2 laments that birds and beasts eat the dead bodies of God's servants, identical imagery to Jeremiah's destroyers.

Ezekiel 39:4 says God gives the slain to birds and beasts to devour, exactly matching the birds and beasts in Jeremiah 15:3.

Ezekiel 14:15 explicitly describes God sending wild beasts to ravage the land, directly matching the beasts in Jeremiah 15:3.

Ezekiel 5:17 lists famine, wild beasts, plague, and sword alongside each other, mirroring the four destroyers in Jeremiah 15:3.

1 Kings 14:11 specifically says dogs will eat the dead in the city and birds in the field, matching Jeremiah's dogs and birds exactly.

Psalm 79:3 Parallel

Psalm 79:3 describes blood poured out with no one to bury the dead, the aftermath of the kind of judgment Jeremiah's four destroyers bring.

Revelation 6:8 echoes the fourfold judgment with sword, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts, though the list differs from Jeremiah's dogs and birds.

Revelation 19:17 calls birds to feast on the slain, matching the birds of the sky in Jeremiah that devour the dead.

Revelation 19:18 describes birds eating flesh of all ranks, a direct parallel to the birds devouring in Jeremiah's judgment.

Deuteronomy 32:24 lists famine, plague, beasts, and serpents as judgments—similar to Jeremiah's four kinds of destroyers.

Ezekiel 7:15 describes sword, pestilence, and famine as simultaneous judgments, similar to the grouping in Jeremiah 15:3.

Isaiah 5:25 Parallel

Isaiah 5:25 also depicts corpses as refuse in the streets, paralleling the unburied dead from the four destroyers in Jeremiah 15:3.

2 Kings 17:25 records God sending lions to kill those who did not fear Him, echoing the 'beasts of the earth' in Jeremiah.