Jeremiah 49:28

This is a message about the Kedar people-group and the kingdom of Hazor which the army of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon attacked. This is what Yahweh says: “ I will cause an army to advance to attack Kedar and destroy those people who live east of Judah.

Translation for Translators

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

27And I, the Commander of the armies of angels, will start a fire to burn the walls that surround Damascus, and the palaces of King Ben-Hadad will be burned down.”

29Their tents and their flocks of sheep will be captured. The curtains in their tents and their camels and their other possessions will be taken away. Everywhere men will shout, ‘We are terrified because terrible things are happening all around us!’

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Cross References

Genesis 25:13These are their names, in the order in which they were born: Ishmael’s oldest son was named Nebaioth. After him were born Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

1 Chronicles 1:29The son of Abraham’s slave wife Hagar was Ishmael. Ishmael’s twelve sons were Nebaioth, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

Psalms 120:5It is terrible for me, living among cruel/savage [DOU] people like those who live in Meshech region and Kedar region.

Isaiah 11:14Their armies will join together to attack the people of Philistia to the west. And together they will attack nations to the east; they will defeat those nations and take away all their valuable possessions. They will capture the areas of Edom and Moab, and the people of the Ammon people-group will be controlled/ruled by the people of Israel and Judah.

Isaiah 21:13I received this message about Arabia: Give this message to people traveling in caravans from Dedan town in northwest Arabia, who camp in the scrub there. Tell them to bring water for those who are thirsty.

Isaiah 42:11You people who live in towns in the desert, sing loudly! You people who live in the Kedar area in the north of Arabia, you rejoice also! You people in Sela city in Edom, you also should sing joyfully; shout to praise him from the tops of your 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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