Jeremiah 49:27

“For I will light a fire on the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the strongholds of Ben Hadad.”

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In The King James Version

And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Ben-hadad.

In Context

26Therefore its young men will fall in its plazas, 1 and all the fighting men will perish on that day—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.” 1

28About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, Yahweh says this to Nebuchadnezzar (now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was going to attack these places): 1 “Arise and attack Kedar and destroy those people of the east. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 20:1Ben Hadad king of Aram gathered all his army together. There were thirty-two lesser kings with him, and horses and chariots. He went up, besieged Samaria and fought against it.

2 Kings 13:5So Yahweh gave Israel a rescuer, and they escaped from the hand of the Arameans, and the people of Israel began to live in their homes as they had before.

Amos 1:3This is what Yahweh says: 1 “For three sins of Damascus, 1 even for four, 1 I will not turn away punishment, 1 because they threshed Gilead with instruments of iron. 1

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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