Jeremiah 46:3

Green's Literal Translation

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

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!

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 Word of Jehovah which was to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations: ² against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah: ³ Set in order the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. ⁴ Harness the horses, and mount, O horsemen. Yea, stand with helmets, polish the spears, put on coats of mail. ⁵ Why have I seen that they are afraid and turned backward? And their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled for refuge, and do not look back. Terror is all around, says Jehovah. ⁶ Do not let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape. They stumbled and fell to the north, by the side of the river Euphrates. ⁷ Who is this rising up like the Nile, whose waters surge about like the rivers? ⁸ Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters surge about like the rivers. And he says, I will go up and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and its people. ⁹ Come up, horses; and rage, chariots! And let the mighty men come forth, the Ethiopians and the Libyans who handle the shield, and the Lydians who handle and tread the bow. ¹⁰ For this is the day of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself of His foes. And the sword shall devour, and be sated, and made drunk with their blood, for there is a sacrifice to the Lord Jehovah of Hosts 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. And I will bless you and make your name great; and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 15:1
After these things the Word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision, saying, Do not fear, Abram; I am your shield, your reward will increase greatly.

Genesis 15:13
And He said to Abram, Knowing you must know that your seed shall be an alien in a land not theirs; and they shall serve them. And they shall afflict them four hundred years;

Genesis 18:18
And Abraham shall become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Genesis 22:17
that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the shore of the sea. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.

Genesis 35:11
And God said to him, I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall be from you. And kings shall go forth from your loins.

Genesis 46:1
And Israel and all which were to him departed, and he came to Beer-sheba. And he sacrificed sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Genesis 46:2
And God said to Israel in visions of the night, and He spoke, Jacob! Jacob! And he answered, Behold me.

Genesis 46:3
And He said, I am God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down into Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

Genesis 46:7
His sons and the sons of his sons were with him, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his seed he brought 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.