Jeremiah 37:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.”
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“Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and the Chaldeans have turned back, and fought against this city, and captured it, and burnt it with fire.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 37:8 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Jeremiah 21:4this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
- Jeremiah 32:29And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
- Jeremiah 34:21And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.
- Jeremiah 38:3This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be delivered into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.”
- Jeremiah 38:23All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
- Jeremiah 39:2And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
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