Jeremiah 46:23 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 46:23

They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.

BSB

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ASV

They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

KJV

They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Or, “They have cut down her forest, saith Yahweh, for it is impenetrable,” i. e., just as a pathless forest must be cleared to assist agriculture and the passage to and fro of men, so must the false worship and the material prosperity of Egypt be overthrown. Grasshoppers - The invading host advances as multitudinous as the locusts which consume the whole vegetation of the land on which they alight.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כָּרְת֤וּ	ka.re.Tu	they will cut down	H3772 →
יַעְרָהּ֙	ya'.Rah	forest its	H3293 →
נְאֻם־	ne.'um-	[the] utterance of	H5002 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
כִּ֖י	ki	that	H3588 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יֵֽחָקֵ֑ר	ye.cha.Ker	it will be searched	H2713 →
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
רַבּוּ֙	ra.Bu	they will be many	H7231 →
מֵֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה	me.'ar.Beh	more than locust[s]	H697 →
וְאֵ֥ין	ve.'Ein	and not	H369 →
לָהֶ֖ם	la.Hem	[belonged] to <the> them
מִסְפָּֽר׃	mis.Par	number	H4557 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

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.

Through
Joel 2:25
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
leads to
- Zechariah 10:6
  I will strengthen the house of Judah and save the house of Joseph. I will restore them because I have compassion on them, and they will be as though I had not rejected them.…
- Joel 1:4–7
  What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Joel 2:2–11
  a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be…
Through
Judges 7:12
Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
leads to
- Judges 8:10
  Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army of about fifteen thousand men—all that were left of the armies of the people of the east. A hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Judges 6:5
  For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
Through
Judges 6:5
For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
leads to
- Judges 7:12
  Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as countless as the sand on the seashore.
Through
Ezekiel 20:46
“Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.
leads to
- Ezekiel 21:2
  “Son of man, set your face against Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel
- Amos 7:16
  Now, therefore, hear the word of the LORD. You say: ‘Do not prophesy against Israel; do not preach against the house of Isaac.’

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The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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06About Jeremiah

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