Jeremiah 49:28
About 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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27“For I will light a fire on the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the strongholds of Ben Hadad.”
Cross References
Genesis 25:13These were the names of Ishmael's sons, according to their birth order: Nebaioth—the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
1 Chronicles 1:29These are their sons: the firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
Psalms 120:5Woe is me because I temporarily live in Meshech; 1 I lived previously among the tents of Kedar. 1
Isaiah 11:14Instead they will swoop down on the Philistine hills on the west, 1 and together they will plunder the people of the east. 1 They will attack Edom and Moab, and the people of Ammon will obey them. 1
Isaiah 21:13A declaration about Arabia. 1 In the wilderness of Arabia you spend the night, you caravans of Dedanites. 1
Isaiah 42:11Let the desert and the cities cry out, the villages where Kedar lives, shout for joy! 1 Let the inhabitants of Sela sing; let them shout from the mountaintops. 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 →