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Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Jeremiah 21:6

I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, both people and animals. They will die from a terrible disease that will spread all through the city.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Anger;   Animals;   Babylon;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Thompson Chain Reference - God's;   Judgments, God's;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Pestilence;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;   Plague or Pestilence, the;   Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Jeremiah;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Zedekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Pashur;   Zephaniah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jeremiah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Zedekiah ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Four;   Zedekiah (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will strike the residents of this city, both people and animals. They will die in a severe plague.
Hebrew Names Version
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.
King James Version
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
English Standard Version
And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great pestilence.
New American Standard Bible
"I will also strike the inhabitants of this city, both the people and the animals; they will die of a great plague.
New Century Version
I will kill everything living in Jerusalem—both people and animals. They will die from terrible diseases.
Amplified Bible
"I will also strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great virulent disease.
World English Bible
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and animal: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will smite the inhabitants of this citie, both man, and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Legacy Standard Bible
I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.
Berean Standard Bible
I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.
Complete Jewish Bible
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, humans and animals alike, and they will die of a terrible plague.
Darby Translation
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
George Lamsa Translation
And in great wrath will I smite the inhabitants of this city, both men and beasts; they shall die of a great pestilence.
Good News Translation
I will kill everyone living in this city; people and animals alike will die of a terrible disease.
Lexham English Bible
And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both humankind and animal; by a great plague they will die.
Literal Translation
And I will strike the people of this city, both man and beast. They shall die of a great plague.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and will smyte them, that dwell in this cite: yee both me ad catell shal dye of the pestilence.
American Standard Version
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Bible in Basic English
And I will send a great disease on the people living in this town, on man and on beast, causing their death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.
King James Version (1611)
And I will smite the inhabitants of this citie both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And wyll smite them that dwell in this citie, yea both men and cattell shall dye of a great pestilence.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will smite all the dwellers in this city, both men and cattle, with grievous pestilence: and they shall die.
English Revised Version
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y schal smyte the dwelleris of this citee, men and beestis schulen die bi greet pestilence.
Update Bible Version
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.
Webster's Bible Translation
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die by a great pestilence.
New English Translation
I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, people and animals alike! They will die from terrible diseases.
New King James Version
I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.
New Living Translation
I will send a terrible plague upon this city, and both people and animals will die.
New Life Bible
I will kill both man and animal in this city. They will die of a bad disease.
New Revised Standard
And I will strike down the inhabitants of this city, both human beings and animals; they shall die of a great pestilence.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast, - of a great pestilence, shall they die.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, men and beasts shall die of a great pestilence.
Revised Standard Version
And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they shall die of a great pestilence.
Young's Literal Translation
And I have smitten the inhabitants of this city, Both man and beast, By a great pestilence do they die.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast; they will die of a great pestilence.

Contextual Overview

1 This is the message that came to Jeremiah from the Lord . This was when King Zedekiah of Judah sent Pashhur son of Malkijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to Jeremiah. They brought a message for Jeremiah. 2 They said to Jeremiah, "Pray to the Lord for us. Ask him what will happen. We want to know, because King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon is attacking us. Maybe the Lord will do great things for us, as he did in the past. Maybe he will make Nebuchadnezzar stop attacking us and leave." 3 Then Jeremiah answered Pashhur and Zephaniah. He said, "Tell King Zedekiah, 4 ‘This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says: You have weapons of war in your hands that you are using to defend yourselves from the Babylonians and their king. But I will make those weapons worthless. "‘The army from Babylon is outside the wall all around the city. Soon I will bring that army into Jerusalem. 5 I myself will fight against you people of Judah. I will fight against you with my own powerful hand. I am very angry with you, so I will fight against you with my own powerful arm. I will fight very hard against you and show how angry I am. 6 I will kill everything living in Jerusalem, both people and animals. They will die from a terrible disease that will spread all through the city. 7 After that happens,'" says the Lord , "‘I will give King Zedekiah of Judah and all his officials to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. And I will give to Nebuchadnezzar the people who remain alive in Jerusalem—those who did not die from the terrible disease and the people who did not die in war or from hunger. I will give them all to King Nebuchadnezzar. The people of Judah will be captured by their enemies who want to kill them. Nebuchadnezzar's army will use their swords to kill the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar will not show any mercy. He will not feel sorry for them.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I will: Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 12:3, Jeremiah 12:4, Jeremiah 33:12, Jeremiah 36:29, Genesis 6:7, Isaiah 6:11, Isaiah 24:1-6, Ezekiel 14:13, Ezekiel 14:17, Ezekiel 14:19, Ezekiel 14:21, Ezekiel 33:27, Ezekiel 33:29, Hosea 4:3, Micah 3:12, Zephaniah 1:3, Luke 21:24

they: Jeremiah 32:24, Jeremiah 34:17, Jeremiah 42:22, Ezekiel 5:12, Ezekiel 5:13, Ezekiel 7:15, Ezekiel 12:16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:21 - General Jeremiah 25:18 - Jerusalem Jeremiah 50:3 - both

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed his face to the ground to show he respected God. But he laughed and said to himself, "I am 100 years old. I cannot have a son, and Sarah is 90 years old. She cannot have a child."
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Don't worry about the boy and the slave woman. Do what Sarah wants. Your descendants will be those who come through Isaac.
Genesis 21:15
After some time, when all their drinking water was gone, Hagar put her son under a bush.
Genesis 21:21
His mother found a wife for him in Egypt. They continued to live in the Paran desert.
Genesis 21:22
Then Abimelech and Phicol spoke with Abraham. Phicol was the commander of Abimelech's army. They said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
Genesis 21:27
So Abraham and Abimelech made an agreement. Abraham gave Abimelech some sheep and cattle as proof of the agreement.
Genesis 21:28
Abraham also put seven female lambs in front of Abimelech.
Psalms 113:9
He gives children to the woman whose home is empty. He makes her a happy mother. Praise the Lord !
Psalms 126:2
We will laugh and sing happy songs! Then the other nations will say, "The Lord did a great thing for Zion!"
Isaiah 49:15
But the Lord says, "Can a woman forget her baby? Can she forget the child who came from her body? Even if she can forget her children, I cannot forget you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will smite the inhabitants of this city,.... With one or other of his arrows after mentioned: or, "them that abide in this city" o; that do not go out of it, and surrender themselves to the king of Babylon; see Jeremiah 21:9;

both man and beast; the latter for the sin of the former; particularly such beasts as were fit for food are meant, whereby the famine would be increased, and so the greater destruction of men:

they shall die of a great pestilence; both man and beast; a disease which comes immediately from the hand of God; hence Hippocrates used to call it το θειον, "the divine disease": here it denotes a very uncommon one, which should sweep away large numbers; called great, both for quality, or the nature of it, and for the quantity of persons that died of it.

o את יושבי העיר "manentes in hac urbe", Gataker.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A great pestilence - As the result of the excessive crowding of men and animals in a confined space with all sanitary regulations utterly neglected.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 21:6. They shall die of a great pestilence. — The sword may appear to be that of man, though I have given the Chaldeans their commission; but the pestilence shall appear to be the immediate act of GOD.


 
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