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Jeremiah 51:4

They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    They will fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

  • KJV King James Version

    Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

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Cross-references (5)

Passages linked to Jeremiah 51:4 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.
  • Isaiah 13:15 Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.
  • Jeremiah 50:30 Therefore her young men will fall in her streets. All her men of war will be brought to silence in that day,” says Yahweh.
  • Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
  • Jeremiah 50:37 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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Explain this verse (7 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain HE proceeds with what we began yesterday to explain,…

HE proceeds with what we began yesterday to explain, — that the time was nigh when God would take vengeance on the Babylonians. As, then, this could not be without great destruction in a city so very populous, and as it could not be overthrown except calamity extended itself through the whole country, hence, he says, that though Babylon should prepare great and powerful armies, it would yet be in vain, because they shall fall, he says, wounded everywhere in the land; and then he adds, and pierced through in her streets By these words he means, that the Chaldeans would be slain not only in the open fields, but also in the midst of the city. he afterwards adds, —

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 51:4 Thus the slain shall fall in the…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thus all of them shall be destroyed, some in…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thus the slain shall fall in the land of…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Translate it: “And they,” i. e., the young men…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (See on Jer 49:26; Jer 50:30; Jer 50:37).
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain In her streets; i.e. in the streets of Babylon.

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