Jeremiah 49:28
Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus says LORD: Arise ye. Go up to Kedar, and destroy the sons of the east.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
27And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.
Cross References
Genesis 25:13And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
1 Chronicles 1:29These are their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Psalms 120:5Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
Isaiah 11:14And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west. Together they shall despoil the sons of the east. They shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the sons of Ammon shall obey them.
Isaiah 21:13The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia ye shall lodge, O ye caravans of Dedanites.
Isaiah 42:11Let the wilderness and the cities of it lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:24-28
The Judgment of Damascus. ( b. c. 595.) 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are faint hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,… Read the whole commentary →