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Jeremiah 34:22

in Jeremiah 34

Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

KJV

Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.

This verse in Jeremiah 34

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

I will - cause them to return - They did return; re-invested the city; and, after an obstinate defense, took it, plundered it, and burned it to the ground, taking Zedekiah and his princes captive.

This site's exposition

And I will deliver Zedekiah king

on Jeremiah 34:21-22

Zedekiah and his officials are handed to “the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you,” so the lifting is a reprieve. Barnes and Henry connect the withdrawal to chapter 37, where an Egyptian army draws Babylon off for a time.

This site's exposition

I will bring them back to this city

The LORD commands, and the army of Babylon returns. Clarke records the outcome: they fought against the city, captured it after a stubborn defense and burned it down, taking Zedekiah captive. Henry calls it just that a people who broke their covenant lost the hope the withdrawal had raised.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This prophecy concerning Zedekiah was delivered to Jeremiah, and by him to the parties concerned, before he was shut up in the prison, for we find this prediction here made the ground of his commitment, as appears by the recital of some passages out of it, ch. xxxii.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(3.) It is just with God to disappoint those expectations of mercy which his providence had given cause for when we disappoint those expectations of duty which our professions, pretensions, and fair promises, had given cause for.
Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city,....

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Behold I command that Pharaoh’s army return to his land, and the Chaldeans return upon you.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 34:22:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
who have gone up away from you because of the army of Pharaoh that came out of Egypt, as is explained in this Book (37:5).
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 34:21:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • הִנְנִ֨יhere I

    hiniH2005 →316 times

  • מְצַוֶּ֜ה[am] about to give command

    metzavehH6680 →494 times

  • נְאֻם־[the] utterance of

    neum-H5002 →376 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַהֲשִׁ֨בֹתִ֜יםand I will bring back them

    vahashivotimH7725 →1056 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָעִ֤ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • הַזֹּאת֙<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • וְנִלְחֲמ֣וּand they will fight

    venilchamuH3898 →177 times

  • עָלֶ֔יהָon it

    ʾaleihaH5921 →5755 times

  • וּלְכָד֖וּהָand they will capture it

    ulekhaduhaH3920 →121 times

  • וּשְׂרָפֻ֣הָand they will burn it

    userafuhaH8313 →117 times

  • בָאֵ֑שׁwith <the> fire

    vaeshH784 →378 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • עָרֵ֧י[the] cities of

    ʾareiH5892 →1090 times

  • יְהוּדָ֛הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • אֶתֵּ֥ןI will make

    ʾetenH5414 →2011 times

  • שְׁמָמָ֖הa waste

    shemamahH8077 →57 times

  • מֵאֵ֥יןfrom not

    meeinH369 →789 times

  • יֹשֵֽׁב׃ פinhabitant

    yoshevH3427 →1079 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 52:13

    He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

    it leads to

    • Micah 3:12

      Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Chronicles 36:19

      Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

    • Psalms 79:1

      The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 9:11

    “And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 25:2

      Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

    • Isaiah 13:22

      Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 39:8

    The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 1:3

      And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

  • Through

    Jeremiah 33:10

    This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 32:43

      And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’

    • Ezekiel 37:11

      Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.