Jeremiah 46:3

Geneva Bible

Make readie buckler and shielde, and goe forth to battell.

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.

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.

Bible in Basic English
Get out the breastplate and body-cover, and come together to the fight.

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 wordes of the Lord, which came to Ieremiah the Prophet against the Gentiles, ² As against Egypt, against ye armie of Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt, which was by the riuer Perath in Carchemish, which Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel smote in the fourth yere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah. ³ Make readie buckler and shielde, and goe forth to battell. ⁴ Make readie the horses, and let the horsemen get vp, and stande vp with your sallets, fourbish the speares, and put on the brigandines. ⁵ Wherefore haue I seene them afraid, and driuen backe? for their mighty men are smitten, and are fled away, and looke not backe: for feare was rounde about, sayeth the Lord. ⁶ The swift shal not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and fall towarde the North by the riuer Perath. ⁷ Who is this, that commeth vp, as a flood, whose waters are mooued like the riuers? ⁸ Egypt riseth vp like the flood, & his waters are mooued like the riuers, and he sayth, I wil goe vp, and will couer the earth: I wil destroy the citie with them that dwell therein. ⁹ Come vp, ye horses, and rage ye charets, and let the valiant men come foorth, the blacke Mores, and the Lybians that beare the shield, and the Lydians that handle and bend the bowe. ¹⁰ For this is the day of ye Lord God of hostes, and a day of vengeance, that he may auenge him of his enemies: for the sworde shall deuoure, and it shall be saciate, & made drunke with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the North countrey by the Riuer Perath.

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 thee a great nation, and will blesse thee, and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing.

Genesis 15:1
After these things, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Abram in a vision, saying, Feare not, Abram, I am thy buckler, and thine exceeding great reward.

Genesis 15:13
Then he saide to Abram, Knowe for a suretie, that thy seede shalbe a stranger in a land, that is not theirs, foure hundreth yeeres, and shall serue them: & they shall intreate them euill.

Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shalbe in deede a great and a mightie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in him?

Genesis 22:17
Therefore will I surely blesse thee, and will greatly multiplie thy seede, as the starres of the heauen, and as the sand which is vpon the sea shore, and thy seede shall possesse the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 35:11
Againe God said vnto him, I am God all sufficient. growe, and multiplie. a nation and a multitude of nations shall spring of thee, and Kings shall come out of thy loynes.

Genesis 46:1
Then Israel tooke his iourney with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifice vnto the God of his father Izhak.

Genesis 46:2
And God spake vnto Israel in a vision by night, saying, Iaakob, Iaakob. Who answered, I am here.

Genesis 46:3
Then hee sayde, I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to goe downe into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation.

Genesis 46:7
His sonnes and his sonnes sonnes with him, his daughters and his sonnes daughters, and al his seede brought he 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.