Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
Flee ye, deliver yourselves, Ye are as a naked thing in a wilderness.
Flee, save your lives, and be like a shrub in the wilderness.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Genesis 19:17As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or…
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then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
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Psalms 11:1In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
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You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.
in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
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Flee, save your lives,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Flee, save your lives - The enemy is in full pursuit of you. Be like the heath - כערוער caaroer, like Aroer; which some take for a city, others for a blasted or withered tree. It is supposed that a place of this name lay towards the north, in the land of the Ammonites, on a branch of the river Jabbok; surrounded by deserts. Save yourselves by getting into the wilderness, where the pursuing foe will scarcely think it worth his while to follow you, as the wilderness itself must soon destroy you.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
They exhort one another to flee. heath--or the juniper (see on Jer 17:6). MAURER translates, "Be like one naked in the wilderness." But the sense is, Live in the wilderness like the heath, or juniper; do not "trust in" walls (Jer 48:7) [GROTIUS].
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed
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As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.
then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.
Turn and run! Lie low, O dwellers of Dedan, for I will bring disaster on Esau at the time I punish him.
Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.
