Jeremiah 46:4
in Jeremiah 46Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
KJV
Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
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This verse in Jeremiah 46
Commentary
6 notes on this verseFurbish the spears - Cleanse, brighten, and sharpen them; from the Franco-Gallic fourbir, to polish, brighten. Brigandines - A coat of mail, especially that which was made scale fashion; one plate overlapping the other, like the scales of fish.
This site's exposition
This is the word of the LORD about the nations
on Jeremiah 46:1-6
The heading opens the oracles about the nations, and Egypt comes first, the power Judah’s kings kept turning to. The date is Carchemish, where Nebuchadnezzar defeated Pharaoh Neco “in the fourth year of Jehoiakim,” 605 BC. 2 Kings 24:7 records that Egypt did not march out of its land again.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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,
Harness the horses,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
15:4). get up, ye horsemen--get up into the chariots. MAURER, because of the parallel "horses," translates, "Mount the steeds." But it is rather describing the successive steps in equipping the war chariots; first harness the horses to them, then let the horsemen mount them. brigandines--cuirasses, or coats of mail.
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
From the infantry the prophet proceeds to the chariots, in which the Egyptians placed great confidence. Get up, ye horsemen - Or, “mount the steeds.” Furbish - i. e., polish, sharpen. Brigandines - In old times brigand meant a soldier, and we still call a division of an army a brigade, and a commander a brigadier, i. e., a brigandier, or captain of brigands. Similarly a brigandine means a soldier’s equipment, and is put here for a coat of mail.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אִסְר֣וּ | ʾisru | harness | H631 → | 72 times |
| הַסּוּסִ֗ים | hasusim | the horses | H5483 → | 140 times |
| וַֽעֲלוּ֙ | vaalu | and mount | H5927 → | 890 times |
| הַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔ים | haparashim | the warhorses | H6571 → | |
| וְהִֽתְיַצְּב֖וּ | vehityatzevu | and take your stand | H3320 → | |
| בְּכ֥וֹבָעִ֑ים | bekhoaim | with helmets | H3553 → | |
| מִרְקוּ֙ | mirku | polish | H4838 → | |
| הָֽרְמָחִ֔ים | haremachim | the spears | H7420 → | |
| לִבְשׁ֖וּ | livshu | put on | H3847 → | |
| הַסִּרְיֹנֹֽת׃ | hasiryonot | the armor | H5630 → |
אִסְר֣וּharness
ʾisruH631 →72 times
הַסּוּסִ֗יםthe horses
hasusimH5483 →140 times
וַֽעֲלוּ֙and mount
vaaluH5927 →890 times
הַפָּ֣רָשִׁ֔יםthe warhorses
haparashimH6571 →
וְהִֽתְיַצְּב֖וּand take your stand
vehityatzevuH3320 →
בְּכ֥וֹבָעִ֑יםwith helmets
bekhoaimH3553 →
מִרְקוּ֙polish
mirkuH4838 →
הָֽרְמָחִ֔יםthe spears
haremachimH7420 →
לִבְשׁ֖וּput on
livshuH3847 →
הַסִּרְיֹנֹֽת׃the armor
hasiryonotH5630 →
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
Jeremiah 51:3Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
it leads to
- Jeremiah 50:14
Line up in formation around Babylon, all you who draw the bow! Shoot at her! Spare no arrows! For she has sinned against the LORD.
- Jeremiah 50:21
Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.
- Isaiah 13:10–18
For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.
- James 2:13
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- Jeremiah 50:29–30
Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has…
- Jeremiah 50:14
Through
Ezekiel 21:28Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash…
it leads to
- Zephaniah 2:8–10
“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
- Ezekiel 21:20
Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 21:9–10
“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
- Zephaniah 2:8–10
Where this verse is studied
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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.