Jeremiah 6:5
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.”
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 48:3(48:4) God is become known in her palaces as a defence.
Jeremiah 9:21(9:20) For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the open places.
Jeremiah 52:7The city was broken in, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was near the king's garden; [while the Chaldeans were round about the city;] and they went by the way of the plain.
Hosea 8:14For Israel forgot his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire among his cities, and it shall devour their fine edifices.
Amos 3:10For they know not how to act rightly, saith the Lord, who treasure up violence and robbery in their palaces.
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 →