Jeremiah 46:6

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Contextual Overview

¹This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. ²To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah: ³"Deploy your shields, small and large, and advance for battle! ⁴Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor! ⁵Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste, they never look back, terror is on every side! declares the LORD. ⁶The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape! In the north by the River Euphrates they stumble and fall.⁷Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters churn? ⁸Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, "I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people." ⁹Advance, O horses! Race furiously, O chariots! Let the warriors come forth-Cush and Put carrying their shields, men of Lydia drawing the bow. ¹⁰That day belongs to the Lord, the GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance to avenge Himself against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For it will be a sacrifice to the Lord, the GOD of Hosts, in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

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not: Judges 4:15-21, Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:17, Psalms 147:10, Psalms 147:11, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Isaiah 30:16, Isaiah 30:17, Amos 2:14, Amos 2:15, Amos 9:1-3

stumble: Jeremiah 46:12, Jeremiah 20:11, Jeremiah 50:32, Psalms 27:2, Isaiah 8:15, Daniel 11:19, Daniel 11:22

toward: Jeremiah 46:10, Jeremiah 1:14, Jeremiah 4:6, Jeremiah 6:1, Jeremiah 25:9

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 46:20 - it cometh Jeremiah 47:2 - out of

Cross-References

Genesis 15:13
Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own; they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Numbers 20:15
how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,

Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 26:5
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, "My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

Joshua 24:4
and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I apportioned to Esau the hill country of Seir, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

1 Samuel 12:8
When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

Psalms 105:23
Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

Isaiah 52:4
For this is what the Lord GOD says: "At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty men escape,.... Those that were swift of foot, like Asahel, or carried but light armour, let not such trust to their swiftness or light carriage; nor let the mighty man think to escape by reason of his great strength, to make his way through the enemy, and get out of his hands. Or this may be rendered as future, "the swift shall not flee away", c. t so the Targum neither the one nor the other shall escape by the nimbleness of their heels, or the stoutness of their hearts:

they shall stumble and fall toward the north, by the river Euphrates; which lay north of Judea, where the prophet was, to whom this word came; and also was to the north of Egypt, whose destruction is here threatened: the place where this route and slaughter would be made was Carchemish, which was situated by that river; on the north side of which city, according to Abarbinel, the battle was; and which sense is mentioned by Kimchi, which the other follows.

t אל ינוס "non fugiet", Pagninus, Montanus; "non effugiet", Munster, Tigurine version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Translate it: “The swift shall not flee away, and the hero shall not escape: in the north on the bank of the river Euphrates they shall stumble and fall.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:6. Let not the swift flee away — Even the swiftest shall not be able to escape.

They shall - fall toward the north — By the Euphrates, which was northward of Judea. Here the Egyptian army was routed with great slaughter.