Jeremiah 6:5
Come on, we'll attack at night instead and destroy her fortresses!”
Free Bible 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 himself is in the city's fortresses; he is recognized as its defender.
Jeremiah 9:21Death has slipped in through our windows; it has come into our fortresses. It has killed the children playing in the streets and the young people gathering in the town squares.
Jeremiah 52:7Then the city wall was broken through, and all the soldiers ran away, escaping at night through the gate between the two walls by the king's garden, even though the Babylonians had the city surrounded. They went in the direction of the Arabah,
Hosea 8:14Israel has forgotten his maker, and built palaces; Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will rain fire down on their cities and burn up their fortresses.
Amos 3:10They don't know how to do what is right, declares the Lord. They have stored up in their fortresses what they've taken by violence and robbery.
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 →