Jeremiah 6:5
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 48:3God has made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.
Jeremiah 9:21For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces, to cut off the sons from outside, the young men from the streets.
Jeremiah 52:7Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden, (now the Chaldeans were against the city round a
Hosea 8:14For Israel has forgotten his maker, and built palaces. And Judah has multiplied fortified cities. But I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.
Amos 3:10For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:2-9
Judgments Threatened against Israel; The Doom of Israel. ( b. c. 608.) 1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4… Read the whole commentary →