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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 27:13 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 27:13 |
King James |
Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Why . . . die--by running on your own ruin in resisting Nebuchadnezzar after this warning (Eze 18:31). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Zedekiah was restless under the Babylonian yoke, and the false prophets found only too ready a hearing from him. He is addressed in the plural because his feelings were fully shared by the mass of the officers of state and by the people. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Why will ye die - If ye resist the king of Babylon, to whom I have given a commission against you, ye shall be destroyed by the sword and by famine; but if ye submit, ye shall escape all these evils. |
31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?