Jeremiah 37:8
Thus saith the Lord: Deceive not your souls, saying: The Chaldeans shall surely depart and go away from us: for they shall not go away;
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
In Context
7And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
Cross References
Jeremiah 32:29And the Chaldeans that fight against this city, shall come and set it on fire, and burn it, with the houses upon whose roofs they offered sacrifice to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to strange gods, to provoke me to wrath.
Jeremiah 38:3Thus saith the Lord: This city shall surely be delivered into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
Jeremiah 39:2And in the I eleventh year of Sedecias, in the fourth month, the fifth day of the month, the city was opened.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 37:2-11
Zedekiah's Wicked Reign; Sign of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 589.) 1 And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. 2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the Lord , which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah. 3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the Lord our… Read the whole commentary →