Lamentations 5:9

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We risk our lives to bring in our bread because of the sword in the wilderness.

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  • Jer 40:9-9 : 9 Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan took an oath to reassure them and their men, saying, 'Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well for you.' 10 As for me, I will stay at Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. But you must gather wine, summer fruit, and oil, store them in your containers, and live in the cities you have taken over. 11 When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had allowed a remnant to remain in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan as governor over them, 12 all the Jews returned from all the places where they had been scattered. They came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered an abundance of wine and summer fruit.
  • Jer 41:1-9 : 1 In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, from the royal family, along with some of the king's officials and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and ate a meal together there. 2 Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him rose up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with a sword, killing him—the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land. 3 Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were found there. 4 On the second day after killing Gedaliah, and before anyone knew about it, 5 eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, with their beards shaved, their clothes torn, and their bodies cut, bringing grain offerings and incense in their hands to present at the house of the LORD. 6 Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When he met them, he said to them, 'Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.' 7 But when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern. 8 However, ten of them said to Ishmael, 'Do not kill us! We have hidden supplies of wheat, barley, oil, and honey in the field.' So he refrained and did not kill them along with their companions. 9 Now the cistern where Ishmael threw all the corpses of the men he had killed because of Gedaliah was the one Asa the king had made as a defense against Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead. 10 Ishmael took captive all the remaining people in Mizpah, including the daughters of the king and everyone left there whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had put under the care of Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael led them away, intending to cross over to the Ammonites.
  • Jer 41:18 : 18 because they feared the Chaldeans. They were afraid because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed governor over the land.
  • Jer 42:14 : 14 Instead, you say, 'No, we will go to the land of Egypt where we will not see war, hear the sound of the trumpet, or suffer hunger for bread. There we will stay.'
  • Jer 42:16 : 16 then the sword that you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you worry about will follow close behind you to Egypt, and there you will die.
  • Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Then He said to me, 'Son of man, I am about to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They will eat bread by weight and in anxiety, and they will drink water by measure and in despair.' 17 'In this way, they will lack bread and water, and they will be appalled at one another and waste away because of their iniquity.'
  • Ezek 12:18-19 : 18 Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with shaking and anxiety. 19 Say to the people of the land, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says about the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will eat their bread with anxiety and drink their water in desolation, for their land will be stripped of all it contains because of the violence of all who live there.’
  • Judg 6:11 : 11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
  • 2 Sam 23:17 : 17 He said, 'Far be it from me, LORD, to do this! Is this not the blood of the men who risked their lives?' So he refused to drink it. These were the exploits of the three mighty warriors.

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