Jeremiah 26:19
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
Cross-reference
In Jeremiah 26:15, Jeremiah warns that putting him to death brings innocent blood on the city—the same logic verse 19 uses to argue against killing him.
Jeremiah 26:3 states God's condition for relenting—people turning. The example of Hezekiah in verse 19 shows this condition met, tying the principle to history.
Jeremiah 26:13 gives the same call to repentance with promised relenting; Hezekiah's example in v19 proves it works.
Jeremiah 42:10 repeats God's conditional relenting—same as Hezekiah experienced when he repented.
2 Chronicles 32:25 reveals Hezekiah's later pride, contrasting with his humble entreaty in Jeremiah 26:19—showing both his earlier piety and later failure.
2 Chronicles 32:26 records Hezekiah humbling himself after pride, and God relenting—a parallel to the same pattern of repentance and divine mercy in Jeremiah 26:19.
Isaiah 37:1 depicts Hezekiah tearing clothes and entering the temple—a vivid example of the fear and entreaty mentioned in Jeremiah 26:19.
Isaiah 37:15-20 contains Hezekiah's actual prayer—a direct fulfillment of the 'entreating the favor' described in Jeremiah 26:19.
Acts 5:35 has Gamaliel urging caution against killing apostles—mirroring the elders' warning in v19 not to kill Jeremiah.
Zechariah 7:12 describes hardened hearts rejecting prophets—the opposite of Hezekiah's humble repentance in v19.
Amos 7:6 shows God relenting after Amos intercedes—same divine response to repentance as in v19.
2 Samuel 24:16 shows God relenting from disaster after David's repentance—another OT example of God's merciful response to humility, as in Jeremiah 26:19.
Isaiah 37:4 records Hezekiah asking Isaiah to pray—a specific action of entreating the LORD's favor, paralleling the general entreaty in Jeremiah 26:19.
2 Chronicles 32:20 shows Hezekiah's prayer alongside Isaiah—a concrete instance of entreating the LORD, echoing the same pattern of humble supplication.
Exodus 32:14 shows God relenting after Moses' intercession—an earlier parallel to the same divine mercy pattern seen in Hezekiah's story.
In Genesis 6:6, God regrets creating humanity due to wickedness — paralleling how God relents from disaster in Jeremiah 26:19 when people repent.
Malachi 1:9 uses 'entreat the favor' ironically, contrasting insincere worship with Hezekiah's genuine entreaty in v19.