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Jeremiah 37:10

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For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’ ”

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Jeremiah 37:10 in other translations

For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

Jeremiah 37:10 · American Standard Version

Jeremiah 37:10 in context

  1. 8The Chaldeans will come again, and fight against this city. They will take it and burn it with fire.” ’
  2. 9“Yahweh says, ‘Don’t deceive yourselves, saying, “The Chaldeans will surely depart from us;” for they will not depart.
  3. 10For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and only wounded men remained among them, they would each rise up in his tent and burn this city with fire.’ ”
  4. 11When the army of the Chaldeans had broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,
  5. 12then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people.