Jeremiah 44:7

Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

Cross-reference

In Jeremiah 44:28, a few escape the sword, modifying the total cut-off warned in verse 7 with a remnant returning.

Jeremiah 44:8 Historical context

In Jeremiah 44:8, idolatry is revealed as the cause of this self-destruction, explaining the evil committed.

Jeremiah 44:11 Historical context

In Jeremiah 44:11, God declares He will cut off Judah as judgment, answering the question of why they bring ruin on themselves.

In Jeremiah 44:12, the judgment of consumption by sword and famine directly follows the warning of cutting off in verse 7.

In Jeremiah 44:14, the promise that none will escape reinforces the warning of leaving no remnant.

In Jeremiah 44:27, God watches over them for disaster, consuming them until an end, echoing verse 7's threat.

Jeremiah 7:19 asks if they provoke God to their own shame, mirroring the self-harm addressed here.

In Jeremiah 9:21, death cuts off children and young men, mirroring the total destruction of man, woman, and infant here.

Jeremiah 25:7 explicitly says they provoked God to their own harm, a direct parallel to 'great harm to yourselves'.

In Jeremiah 51:22, similar language of breaking man and woman describes God’s judgment on Babylon, not self-inflicted harm.

Numbers 16:38 says Korah's rebels sinned against their own lives, a clear parallel to doing harm to oneself.

In 1 Samuel 15:3, the same phrase 'man and woman, child and infant' is used for total destruction of Amalek, echoing the language of judgment here.

In 1 Samuel 22:19, the same phrase describes Saul's massacre at Nob, another instance of complete destruction using identical wording.

Proverbs 1:18 depicts the wicked ambushing their own lives, capturing the same self-destructive pattern.

Proverbs 8:36 states sinning against wisdom injures oneself, perfectly echoing 'doing great harm to yourselves'.

In Ezekiel 33:11, God pleads for sinners to live, contrasting the self-inflicted death questioned here.

In Proverbs 15:32, ignoring instruction is self-despising, echoing the self-destructive evil described here.

Proverbs 5:22 says one's own sins capture them, illustrating the self-entrapment behind the harm here.

In Lamentations 2:11, the lament over children and infants fainting in streets parallels the threat of cutting off child and infant here.

Joshua 6:21 Parallel

In Joshua 6:21, total destruction is God’s command, contrasting with the condemned self-destruction here.