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Jeremiah Warns Zedekiah

Jeremiah 37:8

In 11 translations

BSB
Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
KJV
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
WEB
The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.”’
ASV
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
LSV
and the Chaldeans have turned back and fought against this city, and captured it, and burned it with fire.
YLT
and the Chaldeans have turned back, and fought against this city, and captured it, and burnt it with fire.
DBY
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
DRC37:7
And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
GNV
And the Caldeans shall come againe, and fight against this citie, and take it and burne it with fire.
JPS
And the Chaldeans shall return, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
LXXE44:8
and the Chaldeans themselves shall turn again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

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WLC
וְשָׁ֨בוּ֙ הַכַּשְׂדִּ֔ים וְנִלְחֲמ֖וּ עַל־הָעִ֣יר הַזֹּ֑את וּלְכָדֻ֖הָ וּשְׂרָפֻ֥הָ בָאֵֽשׁ׃
LXX-Br44:8
καὶ ἀναστρέψουσιν αὐτοὶ οἱ Χαλδαῖοι, καὶ πολεμήσουσιν ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν ταύτην, καὶ συλλήψονται αὐτὴν, καὶ καύσουσιν αὐτὴν ἐν πυρί.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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 39:2–8And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached. Then all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim…
  • Jeremiah 34:21–22And 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and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you. Behold, I am going to give the command,…
  • 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…

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  • 37:7 in some Bibles
  • 37:8 in most Bibles

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