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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 34:20 - Strong Concordance

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Jer 34:20 Strong Concordance I will even give [05414] them into the hand [03027] of their enemies [0341], and into the hand [03027] of them that seek [01245] their life [05315]: and their dead bodies [05038] shall be for meat [03978] unto the fowls [05775] of the heaven [08064], and to the beasts [0929] of the earth [0776].
  King James I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
I will even give--resuming the sentence begun, but not completed (Jer 34:18), "I will give," &c.

seek their life--implacably: satisfied with nothing short of their blood; not content with booty.

dead bodies--The breakers of the covenant shall be cut in pieces, as the calf between whose parts they passed.
 
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18 And I will give [05414] the men [0582] that have transgressed [05674] my covenant [01285], which have not performed [06965] the words [01697] of the covenant [01285] which they had made [03772] before [06440] me, when they cut [03772] the calf [05695] in twain [08147], and passed [05674] between the parts [01335] thereof,