Ezekiel 16:8

Then I passed by and saw you, and you were indeed old enough for love. So I spread My cloak over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine, declares the Lord GOD.

Cross References (20)

  • Ruth 3:9 (16)

    “Who are you?” he asked. “I am your servant Ruth,” she replied. “Spread the corner of your garment over me, for you are

  • Jeremiah 2:2–3 (16)

    “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, yo

  • Romans 5:8 (15)

    But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • Isaiah 43:4 (13)

    Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nation

  • Exodus 32:13 (10)

    Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make y

  • Deuteronomy 4:31 (9)

    For the LORD your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers

  • Exodus 19:4–8 (9)

    ‘You have seen for yourselves what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself.

  • 1 Samuel 12:22 (9)

    Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own

  • Hosea 11:1 (9)

    When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son.

  • Deuteronomy 7:6–8 (9)

    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possessio

  • Ezekiel 16:6 (6)

    Then I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I

  • Jeremiah 31:3 (5)

    The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with

  • Isaiah 41:8–9 (5)

    “But you, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend—

  • Malachi 1:2 (5)

    “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LO

  • Hosea 2:18–20 (4)

    On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that

  • Exodus 24:1–8 (4)

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you

  • Ezekiel 20:5–6 (4)

    and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the

  • Jeremiah 31:32 (4)

    It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of

  • Romans 9:10–13 (4)

    Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

  • Isaiah 63:7–9 (4)

    I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the