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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 6:23 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Jer 6:23	Strong Concordance	They shall lay hold [02388] on bow [07198] and spear [03591]; they are cruel [0394], and have no mercy [07355]; their voice [06963] roareth [01993] like the sea [03220]; and they ride [07392] upon horses [05483], set in array [06186] as men [0376] for war [04421] against thee, O daughter [01323] of Zion [06726].
	King James	They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

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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]
like the sea-- (Isa 5:30). as men for war--not that they were like warriors, for they were warriors; but "arrayed most perfectly as warriors" [MAURER].

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

like the sea-- (Isa 5:30).

as men for war--not that they were like warriors, for they were warriors; but "arrayed most perfectly as warriors" [MAURER].

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Spear - Properly, a javelin for hurling at the enemy (see Sa1 17:6 note): an ordinary weapon of the Babylonians. Cruel - ruthless, inhuman. In the Assyrian monuments warriors put the vanquished to death; rows of impaled victims hang round the walls of the besieged towns; and men collect in heaps hands cut from the vanquished. Horses, set in array - A full stop should be put after horses. It - the whole army, and not the cavalry only - is "set in array." As men for war against thee - Rather, as a warrior for battle "against thee."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Spear - Properly, a javelin for hurling at the enemy (see Sa1 17:6 note): an ordinary weapon of the Babylonians.

Cruel - ruthless, inhuman. In the Assyrian monuments warriors put the vanquished to death; rows of impaled victims hang round the walls of the besieged towns; and men collect in heaps hands cut from the vanquished.

Horses, set in array - A full stop should be put after horses. It - the whole army, and not the cavalry only - is "set in array."

As men for war against thee - Rather, as a warrior for battle "against thee."

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
They shall lay hold on bow and spear - Still pointing out the Chaldeans: or according to Dahler, the Scythians, who had before their invasion of Palestine overrun many parts of Asia, and had spread consternation wherever their name was heard.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

They shall lay hold on bow and spear - Still pointing out the Chaldeans: or according to Dahler, the Scythians, who had before their invasion of Palestine overrun many parts of Asia, and had spread consternation wherever their name was heard.

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