Isaiah 22:16
Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?
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Referenced Verses
- Matt 27:60 : 60 And put it in the resting-place which had been cut out of the rock for himself; and after rolling a great stone to the door of it he went away.
- 2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.
- 2 Chr 16:14 : 14 And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.
- Job 3:14 : 14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
- Isa 14:18 : 18 All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,
- Isa 52:5 : 5 Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.
- Mic 2:10 : 10 Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.
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