Jeremiah 51:4 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 51:4

And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.

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ASV

And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

KJV

Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

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Original language & word study

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Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְנָפְל֥וּ	ve.na.fe.Lu	and they will fall	H5307 →
חֲלָלִ֖ים	cha.la.Lim	slain	H2491 →
בְּאֶ֣רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
כַּשְׂדִּ֑ים	kas.Dim	[the] Chaldeans	H3778 →
וּמְדֻקָּרִ֖ים	u.me.du.ka.Rim	and pierced through	H1856 →
בְּחוּצוֹתֶֽיהָ׃	be.chu.tzo.Tei.ha	in streets its	H2351 →

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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
Jeremiah 50:37
A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:30
  The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Nahum 3:13
  Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
- Jeremiah 48:41
  Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
- Jeremiah 25:20
  all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
Through
Jeremiah 49:26
For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:30
  Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:3–4
  Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 50:30
Therefore, her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD.
leads to
- Jeremiah 49:26
  For her young men will fall in the streets, and all her warriors will be silenced in that day,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
Through
Isaiah 14:19
But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
leads to
- Jeremiah 41:9
  Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha…

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

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