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New Life Version

Jeremiah 6:5

Rise up, let us go and fight in the night and destroy her strong houses!"

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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
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 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 "Run away to be safe, O sons of Benjamin! Run from Jerusalem! Blow the horn in Tekoa, and light a fire in Beth-haccerem. For a sinful power is coming down from the north, that will destroy much. 2 I will cut off the beautiful and fine ones, the people of Zion. 3 Shepherds and their flocks will come to her. They will set up their tents around her and feed their flocks there, each in his place. 4 Make war against her. Rise up, let us go and fight her at noon. It is bad for us, for the day is passing! The shadows of the evening are longer! 5 Rise up, let us go and fight in the night and destroy her strong houses!" 6 For the Lord of All says, "Cut down her trees, and build a battle-wall against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. There is nothing but a sinful power that makes hard times for others within her. 7 As a well keeps its water good for drinking, so Jerusalem keeps going on in her sin. The sounds of those who fight and those who destroy are heard in her. Sickness and sorrow are always before Me. 8 Listen about the danger, O Jerusalem, or I will become a stranger to you. I will make you a waste, a land with no people."

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
When men became many in number on the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:3
Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not stay in man forever, for he is flesh. But yet he will live for 120 years."
Genesis 6:4
Very large men were on the earth in those days, and later also, when the sons of God lived with the daughters of men, who gave birth to their children. These were the powerful men of long ago, men of much strength.
Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah and his family. Noah was right with God. He was without blame in his time. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:19
You are to bring into the large boat two of every kind of living thing of all flesh, to keep them alive with you. They will be male and female.
Genesis 6:20
Two of all the kinds of birds, and animals, and every thing that moves on the ground are to be with you to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
And take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it. It will be food for you and for them."
Genesis 8:21
Then the Lord smelled a pleasing smell. And the Lord said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground because of man. For the desire of man's heart is sinful from when he is young. I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done.
Genesis 13:13
whose men were sinful, sinning against the Lord.
Deuteronomy 29:19
When one hears the words of this curse, he will say in his pride, ‘I have peace even though I am strong-willed in my heart.' This will destroy the land that is watered along with the dry land.

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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