Jeremiah 49:28

Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, smote. Thus saith Jehovah: Arise ye, go up against Kedar, And spoil the sons of the East!

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In The King James Version

Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

In Context

27Yea, I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, Which shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.

29Their tents and their flocks shall they take away; They shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their furniture, and their camels, And men shall cry to them, “Terror is on every side.”

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Cross References

Psalms 120:5Alas for me, that I sojourn in Mesech, That I dwell in the tents of Kedar!

Isaiah 11:14But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines at the sea; Together shall they plunder the children of the East; On Edom and Moab shall they lay their hand, And the sons of Ammon shall be subject to them.

Isaiah 21:13The prophecy against the Arabians. In the thickets of Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of Dedan!

Isaiah 42:11Let the desert cry aloud, and the cities thereof; The villages, that Kedar inhabiteth; Let the inhabitants of the rock sing; Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 49:24-28

The Judgment of Damascus. ( b. c. 595.) 23 Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are faint hearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet. 24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. 25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy! 26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day,… Read the whole commentary →

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