Quotes about Exile
for this is what Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
— Amos 7:11
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be divided by a measuring line, and you yourself will die on pagan soil. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’”
— Amos 7:17
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
— Micah 1:16
You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
— Micah 2:9
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
— Nahum 2:7
Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
— Nahum 3:10
For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
— Zechariah 14:2
and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.
— Matthew 1:11
After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
— Matthew 1:12
In all, then, there were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Christ.
— Matthew 1:17
So he got up, took the Child and His mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt,
— Matthew 2:14
Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
— Luke 9:58