Jeremiah 21:4
'Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: See, I am about to turn back the instruments of war that are in your hand, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are closing you in from outside the walls! For I will gather them in the middle of this city.
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3So Jeremiah said to them, “This is what you must say to Zedekiah,
Cross References
Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will remove the hedge, 1 I will turn it into a pasture, I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down. 1
Isaiah 13:4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of many people! 1 The noise of a tumult of the kingdoms like many nations gathered together! 1 Yahweh of hosts is mustering the army for the battle. 1
Jeremiah 33:5'The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill the houses with corpses of people whom I will kill in my wrath and fury, when I hide my face from this city because of all their wickedness.
Jeremiah 37:10Even if you had defeated the entire Chaldean army that is fighting you so that only wounded men were left in their tents, they would get up and burn this city.”
Jeremiah 38:17So Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “Yahweh, God of hosts, God of Israel, says this: If you indeed go out to the officials of the king of Babylon then you will live, and this city will not be burned. You and your family will live.
Jeremiah 52:18The pots, shovels, lamp trimmers, bowls, and all the utensils of bronze with which the priests had served in the temple—the Chaldeans took them all away.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 21:2-8
Zedekiah's Message to Jeremiah. ( b. c. 590.) 1 The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord , when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashur the son of Melchiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying, 2 Enquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us. 3 Then said Jeremiah unto them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah: 4 Thus saith the Lord God of Israel;… Read the whole commentary →