Jeremiah 46:3

Bible in Basic English

Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Deploy small shields and large;approach for battle!

Hebrew Names Version
Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

King James Version
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

English Standard Version
"Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

New American Standard Bible
"Set up the buckler and shield, And advance to the battle!

New Century Version
"Prepare your shields, large and small, and march out for battle!

Amplified Bible
"Line up the buckler (small shield) and [large] shield, And advance for battle!

World English Bible
Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Make readie buckler and shielde, and goe forth to battell.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Arrange the shield and large shield,And draw near for the battle!

Berean Standard Bible
"Deploy your shields, small and large, and advance for battle!

Contemporary English Version
It's time to go into battle! So grab your shields,

Complete Jewish Bible
"Prepare breastplate and shield! Advance to battle!

Darby Translation
Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!

Easy-to-Read Version
"Get your large and small shields ready. March out for battle.

George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take up the buckler and shield and draw near to battle.

Good News Translation
"The Egyptian officers shout, ‘Get your shields ready and march into battle!

Lexham English Bible
"Prepare small shield and shield, and approach for the battle!

Literal Translation
Set in order the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye make redy buckler and shylde, ye go forth to fight:

American Standard Version
Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Make ready buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

King James Version (1611)
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw neere to battell.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Make redy buckler and shielde, and go foorth to fight.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the leaders of the king of Babylon went in, and sat in the middle gate, Marganasar, and Samagoth, and Nabusachar, and Nabusaris, Nagargas, Naserrabamath, and the rest of the leaders of the king of Babylon,

English Revised Version
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make ye redi scheeld and targat, and go ye forth to batel.

Update Bible Version
Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

Webster's Bible Translation
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

New English Translation
"Fall into ranks with your shields ready! Prepare to march into battle!

New King James Version
"Order the buckler and shield, And draw near to battle!

New Living Translation
"Prepare your shields, and advance into battle!

New Life Bible
"Get your coverings ready and go out to the battle!

New Revised Standard
Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Prepare ye buckler and shield, And draw near to battle:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle.

Revised Standard Version
"Prepare buckler and shield, and advance for battle!

Young's Literal Translation
`Set ye in array shield and buckler, And draw nigh to battle.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Line up the shield and buckler, And draw near for the battle!

Contextual Overview

¹ The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations. ² Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah. ³ Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight. ⁴ Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates. ⁵ What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord. ⁶ Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling. ⁷ Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers? ⁸ Egypt is coming up like the Nile, and his waters are lifting their heads like the rivers, and he says, I will go up, covering the earth; I will send destruction on the town and its people. ⁹ Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows. ¹⁰ But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This is a poetical and ironical call to the Egyptians to muster their forces; and implies that all their courage and efforts would be vain. Jeremiah 51:11, Jeremiah 51:12, Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 21:5, Joel 3:9, Nahum 2:1, Nahum 3:14

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:14 - Stand Ezekiel 38:7 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

Genesis 15:1
After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

Genesis 15:13
And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

Genesis 22:17
That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

Genesis 46:1
And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 46:2
And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

Genesis 46:3
And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

Genesis 46:7
His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Order ye the buckler and shield,.... Both signify one and the same sort of armour, only of a different form, the one being lesser and lighter than the other. Jarchi makes the difference to be, that the former was made of skin, the latter of wood; they were both used to defend the body in war. To order them is not only to prepare them, and get them ready; but to fit them to the body, and to put them on, that they might be in a readiness to engage in battle. The exhortation is made either to the Chaldean army, to prepare to fight against the Egyptians; or to the army of Pharaohnecho, to defend themselves against the king of Babylon, who was coming against them, as Kimchi and Abarbinel, who seem to be in doubt which it should be; but the latter is most probable: and it is either a direction of Pharaoh to his army, to be in readiness; or rather of God, speaking ironically to them, suggesting, that let them do what they would, and make ever such preparations for battle, all would come to nothing, victory would be on the other side;

and draw near to battle; engage the enemy briskly, and with the greatest courage, and use all your military skill; and, when ye have done, it will all be in vain.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Order ye ... - “i. e., prepare ye, make ready.” The buckler was a small round target carried by the lightly-armed troops: the shield belonged to the heavily-armed troops, and was large enough to protect the whole body.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:3. Order ye the buckler — This is the call to the general armament of the people against the Chaldeans.