The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.” ’
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The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.” ’
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And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
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And the Chaldeans shall return, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 37:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 38:23 They will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans. You won’t escape out of their hand, but will be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon. You will cause this city to be burned with fire.’ ”
- Jeremiah 39:2-8 In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city. All the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon. When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him. Then the king of Babylon killed Zedekiah’s sons in Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also killed all the nobles of Judah. Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon. The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 32:29 The Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 34:21-22 “I will give Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes into the hands of their enemies, into the hands of those who seek their life and into the hands of the king of Babylon’s army, who has gone away from you. Behold, I will command,” says Yahweh, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and…
Jer 37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
Ver. 8. And the Chaldean shall return.] See Jer 32:12; Jer 32:29.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the Chaldeans shall come again,.... To Jerusalem, after…
And the Chaldeans shall come again,.... To Jerusalem, after they have defeated or drove back the Egyptian army:
and fight against this city; with fresh rigour and resolution; being exasperated by the methods taken to oblige them to raise the siege:
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and take it, and burn it with fire; as they did, Jer 39:8.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Away. They departed indeed, but for a short time.
Away. They departed indeed, but for a short time.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Jer 34:22).
(Jer 34:22).
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