Jeremiah 50:24 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 50:24

I laid a snare for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it. You were found and captured because you challenged the LORD.

BSB

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ASV

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

KJV

I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

I have laid a snare for thee - It was not by storm that Cyrus took the city. The Euphrates ran through it; he dug a channel for the river in another direction, to divert its stream; he waited for that time in which the inhabitants had delivered themselves up to debauchery: in the dead of the night he turned off the stream, and he and his army entered by the old channel, now void of its waters. This was the snare of which the prophet here speaks. See Nerodotus, lib. i., c. 191.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I--Thou hast to do with God, not merely with men. taken . . . not aware--HERODOTUS relates that one half of the city was taken before those in the other half were "aware" of it. Cyrus turned the waters of the Euphrates where it was defended into a different channel, and so entered the city by the dried-up channel at night, by the upper and lower gates (Da 5:30, 31).

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
יָקֹ֨שְׁתִּי	ya.Ko.she.ti	I set a trap	H3369 →
לָ֤ךְ	lakh	for <the> you
וְגַם־	ve.gam-	and also	H1571 →
נִלְכַּדְתְּ֙	nil.kadT	you were caught	H3920 →
בָּבֶ֔ל	ba.Vel	O Babylon	H894 →
וְאַ֖תְּ	ve.'At	and you	H859 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
יָדָ֑עַתְּ	ya.Da.'at	you knew	H3045 →
נִמְצֵאת֙	nim.tzeT	you were found	H4672 →
וְגַם־	ve.gam-	and also	H1571 →
נִתְפַּ֔שְׂתְּ	nit.Past	you were caught	H8610 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
בַֽיהוָ֖ה	ba.Yah.weh	with Yahweh	H3068 →
הִתְגָּרִֽית׃	hit.ga.Rit	you engaged in strife	H1624 →

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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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
Job 40:2
“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who argues with God give an answer.”
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:16
  “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.
- Isaiah 40:14
  Whom did He consult to enlighten Him, and who taught Him the paths of justice? Who imparted knowledge to Him and showed Him the way of understanding?
- Romans 11:34–36
  “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been His counselor?”
- Job 33:13
  Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
- Isaiah 45:9–11
  Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker—one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
Through
Job 9:4
God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
leads to
- Job 36:5
  Indeed, God is mighty, but He despises no one; He is mighty in strength of understanding.
Through
Jeremiah 51:8
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
leads to
- Isaiah 21:9
  Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
- Jeremiah 46:11
  Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.

About Jeremiah

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

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PlaceBabil Governorate (archaeological site)BabylonAncient Mesopotamian city and imperial capital; site of the Israelite exile and a recurring biblical symbol of worldly power.

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04Related verses

06About Jeremiah

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Where the connections lead

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About Jeremiah