Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command, says the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."'"
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2 Kings 24:2The Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servants the prophets.
2 Chronicles 36:17Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
Isaiah 10:5Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 24:12The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
Isaiah 45:1Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:
Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 34:9-22
Transient Reformation; The Servants Re-enslaved. ( b. c. 589.) 8 This is the word that came unto Jeremiah from the Lord , after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people which were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them; 9 That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother. 10 Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant,… Read the whole commentary →