Jeremía 21:9

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9 Þeir sem verða kyrrir í þessari borg, munu deyja fyrir sverði, af hungri og af drepsótt, en þeir sem fara út og ganga á vald Kaldeum, sem að yður kreppa, þeir munu lífi halda og hljóta líf sitt að herfangi.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that abideth: Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 27:13, Jeremiah 38:2, Jeremiah 38:17-23

and his: Jeremiah 38:2, Jeremiah 39:18, Jeremiah 45:5

Reciprocal: Isaiah 3:25 - Thy men Jeremiah 27:11 - those Jeremiah 37:13 - Thou Jeremiah 44:13 - General Jeremiah 52:6 - the famine Ezekiel 5:12 - third part of Ezekiel 14:19 - if I Micah 6:16 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that abideth in this city,.... Imagining himself safe there; not fearing its being taken by the king of Babylon; though it was so often foretold by the prophet of the Lord that it should:

shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: by the first of these, in sallying out against the enemy; and by the other two, which raged within the city:

but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans that besiege you,

he shall live; not fall upon them, as the words may be literally rendered; so it would describe such that went out of the city and sallied upon them; whereas it designs such who should go out of the city, and surrender themselves unto the Chaldeans; submit to them, so as to obey them, as the Targum adds; such shall have their lives spared:

and his life shall be unto him for a prey; it shall be like a spoil or booty taken out of an enemy's hands; it shall be with difficulty obtained, and with joy possessed, as a prey or spoil is.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that ... falleth to the Chaldeans - This was to counsel desertion, and would have been treason in an ordinary man: but the prophets Spoke with an authority above that even of the king, and constantly interfered in political matters with summary decisiveness. Compare Matthew 24:16-18.

A prey - Something not a man’s own, upon which he seizes in the midst of danger, and hurries away with it. So must the Jews hurry away with their lives as something more than they had a right to, and place them in the Chaldaean camp as in a place of safety.