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Their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand on the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.
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The Shattering of Security
Commentators explain that this judgment was a total and violent transfer of everything the people held dear. Their houses, fields, and even wives would be given to their enemies. This wasn't a partial loss but a complete uprooting of their lives, targeting the very foundations of their security and identity.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
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Turned - Violently transferred. Houses, fields, wives, all they most valued, and most jealously kept to themselves - are gone.
16th Century
He mentions only one kind of vengeance: that the Jews would be deprived of their land, which they thought would always remain theirs in peace. For …
17th Century
Pastor
And their houses shall be turned to others To strangers, to the Chaldeans; they shall be transferred to them, come i…
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When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. Their hearts were set on the world, and they were w…