Jeremiah 6:1
Strengthen yourselves, ye sons of Benjamin, in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Thecua, and set up the standard over Bethacarem: for evil is seen out of the north, and a great destruction.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2I have likened the daughter of Sion to a beautiful and delicate woman.
Cross References
Joshua 15:63But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that dwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in Jerusalem until this present day.
Joshua 18:28And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath and Cariath: fourteen cities, and their villages. This is the possession of the children of Benjamin by their families.
2 Samuel 14:2Sent to Thecua, and fetched from thence a wise woman: and said to her: Feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, and be not anointed with oil, that thou mayest be as a woman that had a long time been mourning for one dead.
Nehemiah 3:5And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.
Jeremiah 1:14And the Lord said to me: from the north shall an evil break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
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 →