Jeremiah 22:6-8
1599 Geneva Bible
6 For thus hath the Lord spoken upon the king’s house of Judah, Thou art [a]Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon, yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and as cities not inhabited.
7 And I will [b]prepare destroyers against thee, everyone with his weapons, and they shall cut down thy chief [c]cedar trees, and cast them in the fire.
8 [d]And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?
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- Jeremiah 22:6 He compareth Jerusalem to Gilead, which was beyond Jordan, and the beauty of Judea to Lebanon.
- Jeremiah 22:7 The Hebrew word signifieth to sanctify, because the Lord doth dedicate to his use and purpose such as he prepareth to execute his work, Isa. 13:3; Jer. 6:4 and 12:3.
- Jeremiah 22:7 Thy buildings made of Cedar trees.
- Jeremiah 22:8 As they that wonder at a thing which they thought would never have come so to pass, Deut. 29:24; 1 Kings 9:8.
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