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Jeremiah 46:20 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. "
Jeremiah 46:20
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As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
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Jeremiah 46:1
"The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;"
Jeremiah 46:2
"Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah."
Jeremiah 46:3
"Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle."
Jeremiah 46:4
"Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines."
Jeremiah 46:5
"Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 46:6
"Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates."
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