Jeremiah 51:40 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 51:40

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

KJV

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ASV

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

WEB

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.

YLT

I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.

DBT

I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Cross-references

8 verses on the floor

Acts 8:32
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
Romans 8:36
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Ezekiel 39:18
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
Jeremiah 50:27
Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.
Psalms 44:22
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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), in such great numbers, so easily, and the enemies make no more of killing them than the butcher does of killing lambs. The strength of the enemy, and their invading them, are here compared to an irruption and inundation of waters (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JER 51:40PSA 44:22 ROM 8:36
JER 51:40PSA 44:22 ISA 53:7
JER 51:40EZE 39:18 PSA 22:12
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JER 51:40PSA 37:20 PSA 68:2
JER 51:40PSA 44:22 PSA 44:11
JER 51:40PSA 37:20 PSA 102:3
JER 51:40PSA 37:20 LUK 13:3
JER 51:40PSA 44:22 JHN 15:21

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