Jeremia 8:3

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Och alla kvarblivna, de som lämnas kvar av detta onda släkte, skola hellre vilja dö än leva, vilka än de orter må vara, dit dessa kvarlämnade bliva fördrivna av mig, säger HERREN Sebaot.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

death: Jeremiah 20:14-18, 1 Kings 19:4, Job 3:20-22, Job 7:15, Job 7:16, Jonah 4:3, Revelation 6:16, Revelation 9:6

in all: Jeremiah 23:3, Jeremiah 23:8, Jeremiah 29:14, Jeremiah 29:28, Jeremiah 32:36, Jeremiah 32:37, Jeremiah 40:12, Deuteronomy 30:1, Deuteronomy 30:4, Daniel 9:7

Reciprocal: Isaiah 15:4 - his Isaiah 24:17 - and the pit Amos 3:1 - against Micah 2:3 - this family

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And death shall be chosen rather than life,.... By them that should be alive in those times, who would be carried captive into other lands, and be used very hardly, and suffer greatly, by the nations among whom they should dwell; see Revelation 9:6. The Septuagint version, and those that follow it, make this to be a reason of the former, reading the words thus, "because they have chosen death rather than life"; see

Deuteronomy 30:19, but the other sense is best, which is confirmed by what follows:

by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family; the nation of the Jews, become very corrupt and degenerate; so the people of Israel are called the whole family of Israel, Amos 3:1, now it is foretold, that those which remained of that people, who died not by famine, or were not slain by the sword, yet should be in such a miserable condition, as that death would be more eligible to them than life:

even which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts: for, though they were carried captive by men, yet the thing was of the Lord, and a just punishment upon them for their sins.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This evil family - The whole Jewish race.

Which remain - The words are omitted by the Septuagint and Syriac versions.