Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 37:8
8The Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. Then they will capture it and burn it with fire.”
Jeremiah 37:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
- New International Version (NIV)Then the Babylonians will return and attack this city; they will capture it and burn it down.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city. They shall capture it and burn it with fire.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire.” ’
Context of Jeremiah 37:8
6Then came the word of Adonai to the prophet Jeremiah, saying. 7Thus says Adonai, the God of Israel, thus will you say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Now, Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land. The Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. Then they will capture it and burn it with fire.” 9Thus says Adonai: “Do not deceive yourselves, saying: ‘The Chaldeans will surely depart from us’—for they will not depart. 10For even if you had struck down the entire Chaldean army fighting against you, and there were left among them only wounded men, each in his tent, they would get up and burn this city down with fire.”
Read all of Jeremiah 37Jeremiah 37:8 word by word
וְשָׁ֙בוּ֙ הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים וְנִלְחֲמ֖וּ עַל־הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֑את וּלְכָדֻ֖הָ וּשְׂרָפֻ֥הָ בָאֵֽשׁ׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Jeremiah 37:8
- Jeremiah 32:29Then the Chaldeans fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses—where they burned incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke Me.
- Jeremiah 34:21King Zedekiah of Judah and his princes I will give into the hand of their enemies and into the hand of them who seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, who were withdrawing from you.
- Jeremiah 38:23“Then they will bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans, and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down with fire.”
- Jeremiah 39:2On the ninth day of the fourth month of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the city wall was broken through.
Commentaries on Jeremiah 37:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7-10Verses 7-10 Jeremiah‘s answer here is even more unfavorable than that which is given in Jeremiah 21:4-7. So hopeless is resistance that the disabled men among the Chaldaeans would alone suffice to capture the city and burn it to the ground.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-10The Lord answered Jeremiah’s prayer (Jeremiah 37:3) with a warning for Zedekiah. The Egyptians would not offer lasting help, and the Babylonians would return to destroy Jerusalem. This prophecy came true in 586 BC.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. (Jr 34:22).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 37
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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