Tree of Life Version
Jeremiah 6:5
5“Rise up! Let’s attack at night and destroy her palaces.”
Jeremiah 6:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
- New International Version (NIV)So arise, let us attack at night and destroy her fortresses!”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!"
- New King James Version (NKJV)Arise, and let us go by night, And let us destroy her palaces.”
Context of Jeremiah 6:5
3Shepherds with their flocks are coming against her. All around her they pitch their tents, each pasturing in his own place. 4“Prepare for war against her. Rise up! Let’s attack at noon.” “Oy for us! For day is fading— evening shadows are lengthening.” “Rise up! Let’s attack at night and destroy her palaces.” 6For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Chop down her trees! Raise a siege ramp at Jerusalem. This city must be punished— in her midst is only oppression. 7As a well gushes out its waters, so she pours out her wickedness. Violence and havoc are heard in her, sickness and wounds ever before Me.
Read all of Jeremiah 6Jeremiah 6:5 word by word
ק֚וּמוּ וְנַעֲלֶ֣ה בַלָּ֔יְלָה וְנַשְׁחִ֖יתָה אַרְמְנוֹתֶֽיהָ׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Jeremiah 6:5
- Jeremiah 9:21“Say this,” declares Adonai. “The carcasses of men will lie like dung on the open field, like cut grain behind the reaper, with no one gathering them.”
- Jeremiah 17:27“But if you do not listen to Me to keep Yom Shabbat holy, by not bearing a burden or entering through the gates of Jerusalem on Yom Shabbat, then I will set its gates on fire, and it will consume the citadels of Jerusalem, and not be quenched.’”
- Jeremiah 52:13Then he burned the House of Adonai, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every large house with fire.
- 2 Chronicles 36:19They burned the House of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all the palaces with fire and destroyed everything of value.
- Psalms 48:3A beautiful height —the joy of the whole earth— is Mount Zion, on the northern side of the city of the great King.
- Isaiah 32:14For the palace will be abandoned; the bustling city will be deserted; the citadel and watchtower will become a wasteland forever, a delight of wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks,
- Hosea 8:14For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built temples, while Judah has multiplied fortified cities. So I will send fire upon its cities that will consume their citadels.”
- Amos 2:5So I will send fire upon Judah— it will devour Jerusalem’s citadels.”
- Amos 3:10They do not know how to be honest, —declares Adonai— those who are saving up violence and destruction in their citadels.
- Zechariah 11:1Open your gates, Lebanon— fire will devour your cedars!
- Deuteronomy 20:19“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, making war against it to capture it, you are not to destroy its trees by swinging an axe at them. For from them you may eat, so you shall not chop them down. For is the tree of the field human, that it should enter the siege before you?
- Jeremiah 32:24Look, the siege ramps have just come up to the city to take it. The city has been handed over to the Chaldeans fighting against it, because of the sword, the famine and the pestilence. What You have spoken has happened. Here it is, You see it.
- Jeremiah 33:4For thus says Adonai, the God of Israel: “Concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down against the siege ramps and against the sword,
- Jeremiah 52:4It came to pass in the ninth year of his reign in the tenth month, the tenth day of the month, that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came—he and all his army—against Jerusalem, and besieged it. They built a siege wall all around it.
- Isaiah 37:33Therefore thus says Adonai concerning the king of Assyria: “He will not come to the city, or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield, or throw up a siege-ramp against it.
- Ezekiel 21:22I also will clap My hands together. So I will satisfy My wrath. I, Adonai, have spoken.’”
Commentaries on Jeremiah 6:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Arise, and let us go by night - Since we have lost the day, let us not lose the night; but, taking advantage of the darkness, let us make a powerful assault while they are under the impression of terror.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-5Jeremiah described the commanding officers of the invading army as shepherds leading their soldiers to camp around the city. The initial plan was to strike the city walls at noon, when the attackers could see their work. However, the people in the city were so weakened that a night attack was just as effective (see 2 Kings 25:1–4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-54-5. The invading soldiers encourage one another to the attack on Jerusalem. Prepare--literally, "Sanctify" war, that is, Proclaim it formally with solemn rites; the invasion was solemnly ordered by God (compare Is 13:3). at noon--the hottest part of the day when attacks were rarely made (Jr 15:8; 20:16). Even at this time they wished to attack, such is their eagerness. Woe unto us--The words of the invaders, mourning the approach of night which would…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Jeremiah 6
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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