Jeremiah 46:3
in Jeremiah 46“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
KJV
Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
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This verse in Jeremiah 46
Commentary
7 notes on this verseOrder ye the buckler and shield,.... Both signify one and the same sort of armour, only of a different form, the one being lesser and lighter than the other. Jarchi makes the difference to be, that the former was made of skin, the latter of wood; they were both used to defend the body in war. To order them is not only to prepare them, and get them ready; but to fit them to the body, and to put them on, that they might be in a readiness to engage in battle.
This site's exposition
against the Gentiles
on Jeremiah 46:1-6
The heading marks Jeremiah's shift from oracles concerning Judah to the block of foreign-nation oracles that closes the book, opening with Egypt because Egypt was the power Judah's kings kept turning to for rescue. The date is fixed to the battle of Carchemish in 605 BC, where Nebuchadnezzar broke Pharaoh Necho's army and ended Egypt's bid to hold the old Assyrian territory, a battle 2 Kings 24:7 later confirms by noting that Egypt never again came out of her own land. The call to arms in verses 3 and 4, harness the horses, furbish the spears, put on the brigandines, is answered at once by the panic of verse 5, so that the muster and the rout stand side by side as one announcement rather than two events.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
After completing his prophecies concerning the people of Israel, he foretells what will happen to the other nations, teaching that he is Creator, God and Lord of all. First, he recounts those things that pertain to Egypt and teaches the time of this prophecy. The …
Therefore as the prophet Jeremiah has said, Take up arms and shields. Especially as the right hand of God our Savior is invincible in the battle, and as most wise Paul has said, he does not permit people to be tried more than they can bear, but with the trial he will make also the way out, that they may be able to endure patiently.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
A prophecy of the descent which Nebuchadnezzar should make upon the land of Egypt, and his success in it, which was accomplished some years after the destruction of Jerusalem,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Order ye ... - “i. e., prepare ye, make ready.” The buckler was a small round target carried by the lightly-armed troops: the shield belonged to the heavily-armed troops, and was large enough to protect the whole body.
Order ye the buckler - This is the call to the general armament of the people against the Chaldeans.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עִרְכ֤וּ | ʾirkhu | set in order | H6186 → | 74 times |
| מָגֵן֙ | magen | shield | H4043 → | |
| וְצִנָּ֔ה | vetzinah | and body shield | H6793 → | |
| וּגְשׁ֖וּ | ugeshu | and draw near | H5066 → | 125 times |
| לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ | lamilchamah | for <the> battle | H4421 → | 320 times |
עִרְכ֤וּset in order
ʾirkhuH6186 →74 times
מָגֵן֙shield
magenH4043 →
וְצִנָּ֔הand body shield
vetzinahH6793 →
וּגְשׁ֖וּand draw near
ugeshuH5066 →125 times
לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃for <the> battle
lamilchamahH4421 →320 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Nahum 2:1One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
it leads to
- Joel 3:9–11
Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 25:8
Even if you go and fight bravely in battle, God will make you stumble before the enemy, for God has power to help and power to overthrow.”
- Jeremiah 51:20–23
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Jeremiah 51:11–12
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of…
- Jeremiah 50:23
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Joel 3:9–11
Through
Joel 3:9Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
it leads to
- Jeremiah 46:3–4
“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 38:7
Get ready; prepare yourself, you and all your company gathered around you; you will be their guard.
- Jeremiah 46:3–4
Through
Isaiah 21:5They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
it leads to
- Jeremiah 51:39
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares…
- Jeremiah 51:39
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Cyril of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 41; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theodoret of Cyrus, ON JEREMIAH 9:46.