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Quotes About Exile

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
~ Amos 5:5
Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
~ Amos 5:27
Therefore, you will now go into exile as the first of the captives, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
~ Amos 6:7
for this is what Amos has said: ëJeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.í”
~ Amos 7:11
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ëYour 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.í”
~ 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
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
“Get up! Get up! Flee from the land of the north,” declares the LORD, “for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven,” declares the LORD.
~ Zechariah 2:6
“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
~ Zechariah 2:7
But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
~ Zechariah 7:14
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
At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
~ Acts 7:29
You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.í
~ Acts 7:43
They came to appease them and led them out, requesting that they leave the city.
~ Acts 16:39
There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to visit them,
~ Acts 18:2
And he drove them away from the judgment seat.
~ Acts 18:16