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Jeremiah 37:8

And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

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See also Jeremiah 37:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah’s answer here is even more unfavorable than that which is given in Jeremiah 21:4. So hopeless is resistance that the disabled men among the Chaldaeans would alone suffice to capture the city...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    JEREMIAH AND ZEDEKIAH AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM (37-39) CHAPTER 37 _ 1. Jeremiah's warning (Jeremiah 37:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's arrest (Jeremiah 37:11) Jeremiah 37:1. To understand more fully

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 37, 38. FORTUNES OF JEREMIAH DURING THE SIEGE (588- 586). JEREMIAH 37:1. Zedekiah, made vassal-king in place of his nephew, Jehoiachin (in 597) sends Jehucal (Jeremiah 38:1) and Zephaniah (J...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. Jeremiah's Response Jeremiah 37:6-10 TRANSLATION (6) Then the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, saying, (7) Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Thus shall you say unto the king of Jud...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. THE CHALDEANS SHALL COME AGAIN - ()....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-5. The general position....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שָׁ֨בוּ֙ הַ כַּשְׂדִּ֔ים וְ נִלְחֲמ֖וּ עַל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XI A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 21:1, Jeremiah 34:1, Jeremiah 37:1 "All the princes and peoplechanged their minds and reduced to bondage again all the slaves whom they had set free....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This and the two following Chapter s contain the history of the siege up to the fall of the city. In the first part of this chapter Jeremiah was free. Zedekiah occupied the throne, but was disobedient...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Away. They departed indeed, but for a short time._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Who but must admire the Prophet upon this occasion. Oh! for a portion of the same Almighty Spirit, to be imparted to all that minister in holy things, and especially in a time of prevailing corruption...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 AND 38. Chapter 37 gives us Zedekiah in the same state of disobedience. A show of religion is kept up, and, having a moment of respite which excites some h...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE CHALDEANS SHALL COME AGAIN,.... To Jerusalem, after they have defeated or drove back the Egyptian army: AND FIGHT AGAINST THIS CITY; with fresh rigour and resolution; being exasperated by the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. Ver. 8. _And the Chaldean shall return._] See Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 32:29 ....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return_ They shall be discomfited by the Chaldeans, and forced to retreat without affording you any assistance: see 2 Kings 24:7. _And the Chald...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Numbers witness the fatal effects of other men's sins, yet heedlessly step into their places, and follow the same destructive course. When in distress, we ought to desire the prayers of minister...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 37:8 Chaldeans H3778 back H7725 (H8804) fight H3898 (H8738) city H5892 take H3920 (H8804) burn...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH PROPHESIES THE FAILURE OF THE EGYPTIANS, THE REVIVING OF THE SIEGE AND THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BECAUSE IT WAS YHWH'S FIXED PURPOSE (JEREMIAH 37:6). Jeremiah dismissed the good news. He...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DISOBEDIENCE OF JUDAH AND ITS KING IS HIGHLIGHTED BY THEIR TREATMENT OF THE PROPHET OF YHWH (JEREMIAH 37:1 TO JEREMIAH 38:28). These events once again took place during the reign of Zedekiah, the...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment in the days of Zedekiah. CHARACTERS: Zedekiah, Coniah, Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah, Jehucal, Zephaniah, Jonathan, Irijah. CONCLUSION: It is no new thing for those who h...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 37:5. _Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt._ The Chaldeans were afraid of them, and raised the siege. But this joy to Jerusalem was of short continuance; the Chaldeans returned after t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 37:5 EGYPT marched against Babylon c. 588 B.C., drawing the Babylonians away from JERUSALEM. But God’s WORD for Zedekiah is that Babylon

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. In the tenth and eleventh year of Zedekiah. Later than chap. 21, for that embassy was sent when Nebuchadnezzar was marching against Jerusal...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Nothing worthy of relation appears to have happened to Jeremiah till the latter period of the reign of Zedekiah. The first two verses of this chapter form the transition. The embassy to Je...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now we come to the third part of the book of Jeremiah and this covers the period of Zedekiah the king. These particular prophecies, thirty-seven through thirty-nine, cover from the time that Zedekiah...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 32:29; Jeremiah 34:21; Jeremiah 34:22; Jeremiah 38:23;...

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