Jeremiah 6:1

Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.

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Cross References

Joshua 15:63And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.

Joshua 18:28And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.

2 Samuel 14:2And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

Nehemiah 3:5Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

Jeremiah 1:14Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.

Jeremiah 4:19My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:1

In this chapter, as before, we have, I. A prophecy of the invading of the land of Judah and the besieging of Jerusalem by the Chaldean army ( ver. 1-6 ), with the spoils they should make of the country ( ver. 9 ) and the terror which all should be seized with on that occasion, ver. 22-26 . II. An account of those sins of Judah and Jerusalem which provoked God to bring this desolating judgment upon them. Their oppression ( ver. 7 ), their contempt of the word of God ( ver. 10-12 ), their worldliness ( ver. 13 ),… Read the whole commentary →

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