Jeremiah 46:4

Bible in Basic English

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.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Harness the horses;mount the steeds;take your positions with helmets on!Polish the lances;put on armor!

Hebrew Names Version
Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

King James Version
Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

English Standard Version
Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your armor!

New American Standard Bible
"Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, Take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the coats of armor!

New Century Version
Harness the horses and get on them! Go to your places for battle and put on your helmets! Polish your spears. Put on your armor!

Amplified Bible
"Harness the horses, And mount, you riders! Take your stand with your helmets! Polish the spears, Put on the coats of mail!

World English Bible
Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Make readie the horses, and let the horsemen get vp, and stande vp with your sallets, fourbish the speares, and put on the brigandines.

Legacy Standard Bible
Harness the horses,And mount the steeds,And take your stand with helmets on!Polish the spears,Put on the scale‑armor!

Berean Standard Bible
Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

Contemporary English Version
saddle your horses, and polish your spears. Put on your helmets and armor, then take your positions.

Complete Jewish Bible
Harness the horses! Riders, mount! [Troops,] fall in! Helmets in place! Polish the spears! Coats of mail on!

Darby Translation
Harness the horses, and mount ye horsemen, and stand forth with helmets; polish the spears, put on the coats of mail!

Easy-to-Read Version
Get the horses ready. Soldiers, get on your horses. Go to your places for battle. Put your helmets on. Sharpen your spears. Put your armor on.

George Lamsa Translation
Harness the horses and mount, O you horsemen; put on your helmets; polish the spears and wear the breastplates.

Good News Translation
Harness your horses and mount them! Fall in line and put on your helmets! Sharpen your spears! Put on your armor!'

Lexham English Bible
Harness the horses and mount the steeds! And take your stand with helmets! Polish the spears! Put on the body armor!

Literal Translation
Harness the horses, and mount, O horsemen. Yea, stand with helmets, polish the spears, put on coats of mail.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee harnesse youre horses, & set youre selues vpon them: Ye set youre salettes fast on, ye bringe forth speares, ye scoure youre sweardes, & put on youre brest plates.

American Standard Version
Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

King James Version (1611)
Harnesse the horses, and get vp ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets, furbish the speares, and put on the brigandines.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Harnesse your horses, and set your selues vpon them, set your sallets fast on, bryng foorth speares, scoure your swordes, and put on your brestplates.

English Revised Version
Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ioyne ye horsis, and stie, ye knyytis; stonde ye in helmes, polische ye speris, clothe ye you in haburiowns.

Update Bible Version
Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Webster's Bible Translation
Harness the horses; and mount, ye horsemen, and stand forth with [your] helmets; furbish the spears, [and] put on the coats of mail.

New English Translation
Harness the horses to the chariots! Mount your horses! Put on your helmets and take your positions! Sharpen your spears! Put on your armor!

New King James Version
Harness the horses, And mount up, you horsemen! Stand forth with your helmets, Polish the spears, Put on the armor!

New Living Translation
Harness the horses, and mount the stallions. Take your positions. Put on your helmets. Sharpen your spears, and prepare your armor.

New Life Bible
Get the horses ready and get on them! Take your places with your head-coverings on! Make your spears shine, and put on your heavy battle-clothes!

New Revised Standard
Harness the horses; mount the steeds! Take your stations with your helmets, whet your lances, put on your coats of mail!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Harness the horses, and mount, ye horsemen, Stand forth in helmets, - Polish the lances, put on the coats of mail.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.

Revised Standard Version
Harness the horses; mount, O horsemen! Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears, put on your coats of mail!

Young's Literal Translation
Gird the horses, and go up, ye horsemen, And station yourselves with helmets, Polish the javelins, put on the coats of mail.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Harness the horses, And mount the steeds, And take your stand with helmets on! Polish the spears, Put on the scale-armor!

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

furbish: Ezekiel 21:9-11, Ezekiel 21:28

brigandines: Jeremiah 51:3

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:14 - Stand Jeremiah 51:11 - Make Ezekiel 21:10 - it is furbished Joel 3:9 - wake Nahum 3:14 - fortify

Cross-References

Genesis 28:15
And truly, I will be with you, and will keep you wherever you go, guiding you back again to this land; and I will not give you up till I have done what I have said to you.

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 46:14
And the sons of Zebulun: Sered and Elon and Jahleel;

Genesis 46:16
And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;

Genesis 46:24
And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.

Genesis 46:25
These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.

Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.

Genesis 50:1
And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.

Genesis 50:5
My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Harness the horses,.... Put on their bridles and saddles and gird them: or, "bind the horses" r; that is, to the chariots; put them to, as we commonly express it: Egypt abounded in horses, and so no doubt brought a large cavalry, and a multitude of chariots, into the field of battle:

and get up, ye horsemen; upon the horses, or into the chariots, and so be ready to receive the enemy, or to attack him:

and stand forth with [your] helmets; present themselves on horseback, or in their chariots, with their helmets on their heads, to cover them in the day of battle:

furbish the spears; that they may be sharp and piercing, and look bright and glittering, and strike terror in the enemy:

[and] put on the brigandines; coats of mail, to cover the whole body, which were made of iron, consisting of rings, as Kimchi observes.

r אסרו הסוסים "ligate equos", Montanus, Calvin; "alligate", Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

From the infantry the prophet proceeds to the chariots, in which the Egyptians placed great confidence.

Get up, ye horsemen - Or, “mount the steeds.”

Furbish - i. e., polish, sharpen.

Brigandines - In old times brigand meant a soldier, and we still call a division of an army a brigade, and a commander a brigadier, i. e., a brigandier, or captain of brigands. Similarly a brigandine means a soldier’s equipment, and is put here for a coat of mail.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:4. Furbish the spears — Cleanse, brighten, and sharpen them; from the Franco-Gallic fourbir, to polish, brighten.

Brigandines. — A coat of mail, especially that which was made scale fashion; one plate overlapping the other, like the scales of fish.