Jeremiah 6:1
Take your goods into safety, ye sons of Benjamin out of the midst of Jerusalem, And in Tekoa, blow ye a horn, And on Beth-haccherem, raise a fire-signal,—For calamity, hath looked out from the North, Even a great destruction.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
2To a comely and delicate woman, have I likened the daughter of Zion:
Cross References
Joshua 15:63But, as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not dispossess them,—so the Jebusites have dwelt with the sons of Judah, in Jerusalem, until this day.
Joshua 18:28and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite, the same, is Jerusalem, Gibeath [and] Kiriath, fourteen cities, with their villages. This, is the inheritance of the song of Benjamin, by their families.
2 Samuel 14:2So Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched from thence, a wise woman,—and said unto her—I pray thee, feign thyself a mourner, and put on, I pray thee, mourning apparel, and do not anoint thyself with oil, but be as a woman that hath, these many days, been mourning for the dead;
Nehemiah 3:5and, at their hand, repaired, the Tekoites,—but, their chiefs, put not their neck into the service of their lords.
Jeremiah 1:14Then said Yahweh unto me,—Out of the North, shall break forth calamity, against all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels! My bowels! I am pained in the walls of my heart My heart beateth aloud to me I cannot be still! For the sound of a horn, hast thou heard O my soul, The loud shout of war!
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 6:1
In this chapter, as before, we have, I. A prophecy of the invading of the land of Judah and the besieging of Jerusalem by the Chaldean army ( ver. 1-6 ), with the spoils they should make of the country ( ver. 9 ) and the terror which all should be seized with on that occasion, ver. 22-26 . II. An account of those sins of Judah and Jerusalem which provoked God to bring this desolating judgment upon them. Their oppression ( ver. 7 ), their contempt of the word of God ( ver. 10-12 ), their worldliness ( ver. 13 ),… Read the whole commentary →