Jeremiah 21:7
And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 21:9 presents the choice to surrender or die, explaining the fate of survivors mentioned in 21:7.
Jeremiah 52:8-11 gives another account of Zedekiah's capture and execution of his sons, confirming the prophecy.
Jeremiah 39:4-7 recounts the exact fulfillment: Zedekiah captured, sons killed, eyes put out.
Jeremiah 38:17 offers a conditional alternative to the unconditional judgment in Jeremiah 21:7 — surrender brings life, not the sword.
Jeremiah 13:14 uses the same phrase 'not pity or spare' — God's relentless judgment on Judah.
Jeremiah 24:8-10 directly parallels the fate of Zedekiah and Jerusalem under sword, famine, pestilence, exactly as in Jeremiah 21:7.
Jeremiah 34:19-22 repeats the promise that Zedekiah and officials will be given into enemies' hands, identical to Jeremiah 21:7.
Jeremiah 37:17 records the actual fulfillment: Jeremiah tells Zedekiah he will be delivered to Babylon, just as prophesied in Jeremiah 21:7.
Jeremiah 39:16 says God will fulfill His words against the city, directly referencing the judgment in 21:7.
Jeremiah 39:6 narrates the slaughter of Zedekiah's sons, fulfilling the sword-strike prophecy in 21:7.
Jeremiah 22:25 uses the same 'give into hand of Nebuchadnezzar' formula against Jehoiachin, mirroring 21:7.
Jeremiah 34:3 details Zedekiah's capture and face-to-face meeting with Babylon's king, fulfilling 21:7.
Jeremiah 34:20 repeats 'give into hand of enemies who seek their lives' — identical language to 21:7.
Jeremiah 4:6 earlier warns of disaster from the north; here that disaster is specified as Nebuchadnezzar's sword.
Ezekiel 7:9 uses 'no pity' — God's judgment on Israel without mercy, same language.
Habakkuk 1:6-10 describes the Chaldeans as God's bitter, swift instrument—the very army that brings the judgment prophesied here.
In Ezekiel 9:5, the same command to show no pity is given to angelic executioners, paralleling God's judgment on Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 9:6 specifies judgment beginning at the sanctuary and sparing no age, reinforcing the total, merciless destruction prophesied.
Ezekiel 9:10 echoes 'my eye will not spare'—God’s determined judgment without compassion, matching Jeremiah's declaration.
Ezekiel 12:12-16 prophesies the same outcome: Zedekiah taken to Babylon but not seeing it.
Ezekiel 17:20 prophesies God will bring Zedekiah to Babylon and judge him there.
Ezekiel 21:26 describes the same judgment on Judah's king — removal of crown and humbling — as God hands them over.
Ezekiel 7:9 uses 'no pity' — God's judgment on Israel without mercy, same language.
Isaiah 47:6 says Babylon showed no mercy to Judah — exactly what Nebuchadnezzar does here.
2 Chronicles 36:17 records the fulfillment: Nebuchadnezzar kills with no compassion, as predicted.
2 Kings 25:5-7 records the same event: Zedekiah captured, sons killed, blinded.
Deuteronomy 28:50 describes a merciless nation that attacks — the same characteristic as Nebuchadnezzar here.
2 Kings 25:6 records the capture of Zedekiah, directly fulfilling the prophecy that Nebuchadnezzar would strike him down.
Deuteronomy 28:21 lists pestilence as a covenant curse; Jeremiah 21:7 shows that curse coming to pass on Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 23:28 repeats the same phrase 'deliver into the hands' for Jerusalem, directly mirroring Jeremiah's description of divine judgment.
Deuteronomy 7:16 commands Israel to show no pity to Canaanites—here that principle is turned against Israel as they receive no mercy.
Ezekiel 15:6 uses Jerusalem as fuel for fire—a parallel image of total destruction by Babylon, echoing Jeremiah's sword judgment.