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I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
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God's Appointed Destroyers
The verse states God will "prepare" destroyers. Commentators explain the original Hebrew word also means "to consecrate" or "sanctify." This reveals that the Babylonian invasion was not a random political event but a deliberate and holy act of judgment orchestrated by God. He was using the Chaldeans as His instrument to call Judah to account for its sin.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Prepare—that is, consecrate; see the note on Jeremiah 6:4.
Your choice cedars—the chief members of the royal lineage and the l…
19th Century
Anglican
I will prepare destroyers. —The verb, as in Jeremiah 6:4, implies the idea of a solemn appointment or consecration.
16th Century
Protestant
He expresses the manner, for he had only said before that the ruin of the city Jerusalem was near at hand. He adds that destroyers would c…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will prepare destroyers against you The Chaldeans, men of savage dispositions, bent upon the destruction of th…
The king of Judah is spoken to, as sitting upon the throne of David, the man after God's own heart. Let him follow his example, that he may have th…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he makes a threat against the kings, according to which they are to be punished in their own person. Concerning this, he makes thre…
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