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Jeremiah 37:10
New English Translation
Jeremiah 37:10
New English Translation
10 For even if you were to defeat all the Babylonian forces[a] fighting against you so badly that only wounded men were left lying in their tents, they would get up and burn this city down.”’”[b]
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- Jeremiah 37:10 tn Heb “all the army of the Chaldeans.” For the rendering “Babylonian” in place of Chaldean, see the study note on 21:4.
- Jeremiah 37:10 tn The condition here is, of course, purely hypothetical, and the consequence is a poetic exaggeration. The intent is to assure Zedekiah that there is absolutely no hope of the city being spared.
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