THEOSISJeremiah 50:35Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A sword is upon the Chaldeans, saith the Lord, and upon the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
חֶ֥רֶב עַל־כַּשְׂדִּ֖ים נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה וְאֶל־יֹשְׁבֵ֣י בָבֶ֔ל וְאֶל־שָׂרֶ֖יהָ וְאֶל־חֲכָמֶֽיהָ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 47:6O thou sword of the Lord, how long wilt thou not be quiet? Go into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
- Jer 51:57And I will make her princes drunk, and her wise men, and her captains, and her rulers, and her valiant men: and they shall sleep an everlasting sleep, and shall awake no more, saith the king whose name is Lord of hosts.
- Dan 5:7And the king cried out aloud to bring in the wise men, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said to the wise men of Babylon: Whosoever shall read this writing, and shall make known to me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and shall have a golden chain on his neck, and shall be the third man in my kingdom.
- Dan 5:8Then came in all the king's wise men, but they could neither read the writing, nor declare the interpretation to the king.
- Dan 5:30The same night Baltasar, the Chaldean king, was slain.
- Hos 11:6The sword hath begun in his cities, and it shall consume his chosen men, and shall devour their heads.
- Dan 5:1Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age.
- Dan 5:2And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them.