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Against [him who] bends let the archer bend his bow, and against [him who] lifts himself up in his coat of mail: and don`t you spare her young men; destroy you utterly all her host.
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A Divine War Command
Commentators explain that this verse is a divine command to the Medes and Persians. God is commissioning them to attack Babylon's defenders, specifically targeting both the archers and the heavily armored soldiers. This imagery signifies that the entire Babylonian army is the target of this divine judgment.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The man who bends the bow, and the heavy-armed soldier who vaunts himself in his coat of mail (Jeremiah 46:4, note), represent the Baby…
19th Century
Anglican
Let the archer bend his bow. —The words represent the sense of the original, but the Hebrew word for “archer” is literall…
16th Century
Protestant
Interpreters offer various explanations of this verse. Some understand him who bends the bow to mean a light-armored soldier; and by h…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Against [him that] bends let the archer bend his bow These are either the words of the Lord to the Medes and Persian…
The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same themes are left and then returned to. Babylon is abundant in treasures,…
