Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.
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Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.
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Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
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Therefore shall her young men fall in her broad places, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith the LORD.
Cross-references (10)
Passages linked to Jeremiah 50:30 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 49:26 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all the men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh of Armies.
- Jeremiah 9:21 For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
- Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
- Isaiah 13:15-18 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword. Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who will not value silver, and as for gold, they will not delight in it. Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
- Jeremiah 48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
- Jeremiah 50:36 A sword is on the boasters, and they will become fools. A sword is on her mighty men, and they will be dismayed.
- Jeremiah 51:3-4 Against him who bends, let the archer bend his bow, also against him who lifts himself up in his coat of mail. Don’t spare her young men! Utterly destroy all her army! They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.
- Jeremiah 51:56-57 For the destroyer has come on her, even on Babylon. Her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces, for Yahweh is a God of retribution. He will surely repay. I will make her princes, her wise men, her governors, her deputies, and her mighty men drunk. They will sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.
- Revelation 6:15 The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
- Revelation 19:18 that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, small and great.”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain He confirms the same thing, and shows that the…
He confirms the same thing, and shows that the destruction of Babylon would be such, that everything valuable would be destroyed. Fall, he says, shall her strong men in the streets; which is worse than if he had said, “They shall fall in battle.” Babylon was so taken that all her armed men were slain in the middle of the city. Cyrus indeed spared, as it has been already said, the common people; but he slew all the chief men and the armed soldiers. As the Babylonians were taken while keeping a feast, as we read in Daniel, hence Jeremiah mentions the streets. He afterwards adds, —
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in…
Jer 50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
Ver. 30. Therefore shall her young men.] See on Jer 49:26.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See Jer 49:26 where we met with the same…
See Jer 49:26 where we met with the same words.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets,....…
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets,.... Or "surely" (f); it is the form of an oath, according to Jarchi Cyrus, when he took Babylon, ordered proclamation to be made that the inhabitants should keep within doors; and that whoever were found in the streets should be put to death (g), as doubtless many were:
and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord; as Belshazzar and his guards were (h); see Dan 5:30; compare with this Rev 19:18.
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(f) "certe". (g) Cyropaedia, l. 7. c. 23. (h) Ibid.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Peace, in the grave; (Calmet) or shall submit quietly,…
Peace, in the grave; (Calmet) or shall submit quietly, 1 Machabees i. 3. (Haydock)
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 (See on Jer 49:26).
(See on Jer 49:26).
in the streets--The Babylonians were so discouraged by having lost some battles that they retired within their walls and would not again meet Cyrus in the field.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 30. Therefore, etc. — Identical with the words used…
30. Therefore, etc. — Identical with the words used of Damascus in chap.
Jer_49:26.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 30. Repeated from Jer_49:26.
30. Repeated from Jer_49:26.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (30) Therefore shall her young men fall . .…
(30) Therefore shall her young men fall . . .—The verse is reproduced almost literatim from the prophecy against Damascus in Jer_49:26.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain With the exception of "her" in the second clause,…
With the exception of "her" in the second clause, a repetition Jer_49:26.
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