A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed.
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A sword is on their horses, on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the middle of her; and they will become as women. A sword is on her treasures, and they will be robbed.
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A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
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A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her, and they shall become as women; a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 50:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Jeremiah 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have stopped fighting, they remain in their strongholds. Their might has failed. They have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire. Her bars are broken.
- Nahum 3:13 Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
- Jeremiah 25:20 and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the Philistines, Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
- Jeremiah 48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized. The heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
- Jeremiah 51:21 With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.
- Isaiah 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble and fear because of the shaking of Yahweh of Armies’s hand, which he shakes over them.
- Psalms 20:7-8 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust in the name of Yahweh our God. They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.
- Isaiah 45:3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
- Ezekiel 30:5 “ ‘ “Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all the mixed people, Cub, and the children of the land that is allied with them, will fall with them by the sword.”
- Psalms 46:9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
- Psalms 76:6 At your rebuke, God of Jacob, both chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
- Jeremiah 25:24 and all the kings of Arabia, all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;
- Jeremiah 50:26 Come against her from the farthest border. Open her storehouses. Cast her up as heaps. Destroy her utterly. Let nothing of her be left.
- Ezekiel 39:20 You shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war,” says the Lord Yahweh.’
- Nahum 2:2-4 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches. The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
- Nahum 2:13 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
- Haggai 2:22 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain The Prophet, indeed, changes the gender of the pronouns,…
The Prophet, indeed, changes the gender of the pronouns, and seems to refer to the king; but there is no ambiguity in the meaning, he then declares that the horses as well as the chariots would perish; for the sword would consume all the things used in war. And at the beginning he generally declared that destruction was nigh all the Chaldeans, so he repeats the same now, on all the promiscuous multitude, which is in the midst of Babylon. He says that they would be without courage, for the Lord would dishearten them by terror, as it will be hereafter stated again. Then he joins, and on her treasures, and they shall be a prey to enemies. It follows, —
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 50:37 A sword [is] upon their horses, and…
Jer 50:37 A sword [is] upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that [are] in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword [is] upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
Ver. 37. A sword is upon their horses.] Upon all their military preparations; whereof see Herodot., lib. i.
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They shall become as women.] Elumbes, cowardly and crest fallen.
A sword is upon her treasures.] Which bow inestimable they were, see Strabo, lib. xv., and Plin., lib. xxxiii, cap. 3.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain A sword is upon their horses, and upon their…
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots; though they be full of chariots and horses, the enemy shall destroy them. By the mingled people some understand those whom the Babylonians had hired to their assistance from other nations; others, such strangers as lived amongst them; others, a people under the power of the Chaldeans, made up of people of several countries. See Jer 25:20,24; Eze 30:5. They seem to signify a people that were not native Chaldeans, but under their dominion.
They shall become as women; that is, faint-hearted.
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A sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed; and though Babylon hath great treasures, yet those shall not secure her, she shall be robbed of them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain A sword is upon their horses, and upon their…
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots,.... Upon the horsemen, and those that rode in chariots; upon the whole cavalry, which should fall into the enemies' hands, and be cut to pieces; see Rev 19:18;
and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; those of other nations that sojourned in Babylon, or came thither for merchandise; the word having, as Kimchi observes, such a signification; or rather her auxiliaries, troops consisting of other people that were her allies, or in her pay and service:
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and they shall become as women; timorous, faint hearted, quite dispirited, unable to act, or defend themselves:
a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed; or they that slay with the sword, as the Targum, the soldiers, shall seize upon her treasures, and plunder them: thus should she be exhausted of men and money, and become utterly desolate.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Horses - Through they be full of chariots and…
Horses - Through they be full of chariots and horses, the enemy shall destroy them. Mingled people - People that were not native Chaldeans, but under their dominion.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The mingled people - i. e., the foreigners serving…
The mingled people - i. e., the foreigners serving as mercenaries in her army.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain as women--divested of all manliness (Nah 3:13).
as women--divested of all manliness (Nah 3:13).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 37. They shall become as women — Their wise…
37. They shall become as women — Their wise ones shall become as fools, their soldiers and heroes shall “become as women;” that is, destitute of all warlike qualities.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 37. the mingled people] foreign mercenary troops. See on…
37. the mingled people] foreign mercenary troops. See on Jer_25:20.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (37) And upon all the mingled people . .…
(37) And upon all the mingled people . . .—The phrase is the same as in Jer_25:20. Here it is used of the auxiliaries of Babylon, which were probably as numerous, and to a large extent the same, as those of Persia. (See Note on Jer_50:9.) The “treasures” point to the wealth in which Babylon exulted, and which gave to her the epithet of the “Golden City” (Isa_14:4). Even under the Persian monarchy Æschylus uses “gold-abounding” as a normal epithet for it. (Persœ, 53.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The mingled people; rather, the foreign peoples. Even if…
The mingled people; rather, the foreign peoples. Even if in Jer_25:20 the Hebrew erebh is an ethnographical term reminding us of the Assyrian Urbi used of Bedouin tribes, it is clear that no such explanation will suit here. (see on Jer_25:20)
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