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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Brenton's Septuagint

Jeremiah 6:5

Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Strategy;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Kir-Hareseth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Zechariah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Rise up, let’s attack by night.Let us destroy her fortresses.”
Hebrew Names Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
King James Version
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
English Standard Version
Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!"
New American Standard Bible
'Arise, and let's attack by night And destroy her palaces!'"
New Century Version
So get up! We will attack at night. We will destroy the strong towers of Jerusalem!"
Amplified Bible
'Arise, let us [awaken to] attack her at night And destroy her [fortified] palaces!'"
World English Bible
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Arise, and let vs goe vp by night, and destroy her palaces.
Legacy Standard Bible
Arise, and let us go up by nightAnd destroy her palaces!"
Berean Standard Bible
Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!"
Contemporary English Version
we'll attack after dark and destroy its fortresses."
Complete Jewish Bible
"Get up! Let's attack at night! Let's destroy her palaces!"
Darby Translation
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Easy-to-Read Version
So get up! We will attack the city at night! Let's destroy the strong walls that are around Jerusalem."
George Lamsa Translation
Arise, and let us go up against her by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Good News Translation
We'll attack by night; we'll destroy the city's fortresses."
Lexham English Bible
Arise, and let us attack by night, and let us destroy her citadel fortresses."
Literal Translation
Rise up and let us go up by night and destroy her palaces.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Arise, let vs go vp by night, and destroye hir stronge holdes,
American Standard Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Bible in Basic English
Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'
King James Version (1611)
Arise, and let vs goe by night, and let vs destroy her palaces.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Arise, let vs go vp by night, and destroy her strong holdes.
English Revised Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Rise ye, and stie we in the niyt, and distry we the housis therof.
Update Bible Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Webster's Bible Translation
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
New English Translation
So come on, let's go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.'
New King James Version
Arise, and let us go by night, And let us destroy her palaces."
New Living Translation
‘Well then, let's attack at night and destroy her palaces!'"
New Life Bible
Rise up, let us go and fight in the night and destroy her strong houses!"
New Revised Standard
"Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Arise! and let us go up in the night, And let us destroy her palaces.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.
Revised Standard Version
"Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!"
Young's Literal Translation
`Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!"

Contextual Overview

1 Strengthen yourselves, ye children of Benjamin, to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and sound an alarm with the trumpet in Thecue, and set up a signal over Baethacharma: for evil threatens from the north, and a great destruction is coming. 2 And thy pride, O daughter of Sion, shall be taken away. 3 The shepherds and their flocks shall come to her; and they shall pitch their tents against her round about, and shall feed their flocks each with his hand. 4 Prepare yourselves for war against her; rise up, and let us go up against her at noon. Woe to us! for the day has gone down, for the shadows of the day fail. 5 Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations. 6 For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her. 7 As a cistern cools water, so her wickedness cools her, ungodliness and misery shall be heard in her, as continually before her. 8 Thou shalt be chastened, O Jerusalem, with pain and the scourge, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee a desert land, which shall not be inhabited.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let us destroy: Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 17:27, Jeremiah 52:13, 2 Chronicles 36:19, Psalms 48:3, Isaiah 32:14, Hosea 8:14, Amos 2:5, Amos 3:10, Amos 3:11, Zechariah 11:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:36 - Let us go Jeremiah 15:8 - the mother Hosea 4:5 - and the prophet Obadiah 1:1 - Arise

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And Noe was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:3
that the sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.
Genesis 6:4
And the Lord God said, My Spirit shall certainly not remain among these men for ever, because they are flesh, but their days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:9
But Noe found grace before the Lord God.
Genesis 6:19
And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
Genesis 6:20
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
Genesis 6:21
Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.
Genesis 8:21
And the Lord God smelled a smell of sweetness, and the Lord God having considered, said, I will not any more curse the earth, because of the works of men, because the imagination of man is intently bent upon evil things from his youth, I will not therefore any more smite all living flesh as I have done.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.
Deuteronomy 29:19
And it shall be if one shall hear the words of this curse, and shall flatter himself in his heart, saying, Let good happen to me, for I will walk in the error of my heart, lest the sinner destroy the guiltless with him:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Arise, and let us go up by night,.... Since they could not take the city at noon, and by day, as they expected, they propose to attempt it by night; they would lose no time, but proceed on, day and night, until they had accomplished their end; this shows how much they were resolved upon it, and that nothing could discourage from it; and that they were sure of carrying their point: and therefore it follows,

and let us destroy her palaces; the tower and strong hold of Zion, the temple of Jerusalem, the king's palace, the houses of the high priest, judges, counsellors, and other civil magistrates, as well as the cottages of the meaner sort of people; for the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "her houses"; which, notwithstanding her strong walls, were not secure from the enemy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Up! and we will make the assault “by night!”

And destroy “her palaces.”

The generals delay the assault until the next morning. The soldiers consider themselves aggrieved at this, and clamour for a night attack.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 6:5. Arise, and let us go by night — Since we have lost the day, let us not lose the night; but, taking advantage of the darkness, let us make a powerful assault while they are under the impression of terror.


 
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