Jeremiah 6:1
Strengthen yourselves, ye children of Benjamin, to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over Bæthacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2And thy pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away.
Cross References
Joshua 15:63And the Jebusite dwelt in Jerusalem, and the children of Juda could not destroy them; and the Jebusites dwelt in Jerusalem to this day.
Joshua 18:28and Jebus (this is Jerusalem); and Gabaoth, Jarim, thirteen cities, and their villages; this is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
2 Samuel 14:2And Joab sent to Thecoe, and took thence a cunning woman, and said to her, Mourn, I pray thee, and put on mourning apparel, and anoint thee not with oil, and thou shalt be as a woman mourning for one that is dead thus for many days.
Nehemiah 3:5And next to them the Thecoim took their place; but the Adorim applied not their neck to their service.
Jeremiah 1:14And the Lord said to me, From the north shall flame forth evils upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 4:19I am pained in my bowels, my bowels, and the sensitive powers of my heart; my soul is in great commotion, my heart is torn: I will not be silent, for my soul has heard the sound of a trumpet, the cry of war, and of distress: it calls on destruction;
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 →