Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
Parallel translations
- WEB The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.”’
- KJV And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.
- NKJV And the Chaldeans shall come back and fight against this city, and take it and burn it with fire.” ’
- NASB Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city, and they will capture it and burn it with fire.” ’
- NLT Then the Babylonians will come back and capture this city and burn it to the ground.’
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Quick answer
The Babylonians will return, capture Jerusalem, and burn it with fire.
Overview
God plainly foretells that the Chaldeans will resume the siege and destroy the city. The temporary withdrawal changes nothing about the appointed judgment. The certainty of this word stresses that God's purposes are not altered by passing circumstances or human hopes.
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Cross-references · 4
- Jer 39:2–8And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
- Jer 38:23All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”
- Jer 34:21–22And I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives, to the army of the king of Babylon that had withdrawn from you.
- Jer 32:29And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
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