Jeremiah 22:21
I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 35:15 reports the same complaint: God sent prophets but they did not incline their ear.
Jeremiah 32:30 states Israel has done evil from their youth—matching the claim that disobedience has been their way from youth.
Jeremiah 7:22-28 commands obedience to God's voice, but the people would not listen—identical theme of refusing to heed God.
Jeremiah 6:16 quotes the people saying 'We will not walk in it' — exactly the stubbornness here.
Jeremiah 3:25 confesses sin from youth and disobedience to God's voice—directly echoing the same lifelong pattern of refusal.
Jeremiah 2:31 shows the same refusal: 'We will not come to you' matches 'I will not listen'.
Jeremiah 31:19 records Ephraim's repentance after discipline, the exact response God desired but did not receive here.
Jeremiah 25:4 repeats the accusation that God sent prophets but the people refused to listen, reinforcing this charge.
Deuteronomy 9:24 says they have been rebellious from the day God knew them—same persistent disobedience from youth as in Jeremiah.
In Ezekiel 23:3-8, Oholah and Oholibah played the whore in Egypt from their youth—direct parallel to 'from your youth' in Jeremiah.
In Ezekiel 20:28, after entering the land, Israel served idols on high hills—rebellion in prosperity, fulfilling the 'prosperity' context.
In Ezekiel 20:21, the next generation also rebelled, not walking in God's commands—showing persistent refusal throughout history.
In Ezekiel 20:13, the wilderness generation rebelled despite God's statutes—continuing the disobedience from youth theme.
In Ezekiel 20:8, Israel rebelled in Egypt and refused to listen—the earliest instance of the 'from your youth' pattern.
In Isaiah 48:8, God says Israel was called a rebel from birth, with ears never open—directly matching 'from your youth you have not obeyed.'
Proverbs 30:9 warns that prosperity can lead to denying God—exactly the situation where prosperity brought refusal to listen.
In Psalm 106:6-48, the psalmist confesses sin 'with our fathers' from Egypt onward—the same long track record of not obeying God's voice.
In Nehemiah 9:16-37, the confession recounts how Israel refused to listen, acting presumptuously—mirroring the same history of rebellion.
2 Chronicles 36:17 records the Babylonian judgment that followed the rejection—showing the consequence of the disobedience described here.
2 Chronicles 36:16 describes mocking God's messengers and despising his words—the same pattern of rejecting God's voice as here.
2 Chronicles 33:10 records God speaking to Manasseh and his people, who also paid no attention—mirroring the same refusal to listen in prosperity.
In Judges 2:11-19, the cyclical pattern of apostasy and deliverance shows Israel's persistent disobedience from the time of the judges.
In Deuteronomy 32:15-20, Jeshurun grew fat and kicked, forsaking God—echoing Israel's rebellion in prosperity from youth.
Deuteronomy 31:27 highlights their rebellious and stubborn nature while Moses was alive—parallel to the lifelong disobedience noted here.
Deuteronomy 9:7 recalls rebellion from the day they left Egypt—reinforcing the idea that this stubbornness goes back to the beginning.
Zephaniah 3:2 describes Jerusalem's identical refusal to listen or accept correction, confirming this recurring indictment.
Psalm 119:67 shows the same pattern of straying in prosperity, but with a contrasting outcome: affliction leads to obedience rather than continued rebellion.