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King James Version

Jeremiah 6:5

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Strategy;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Kir-Hareseth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Zechariah, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Rise up, let’s attack by night.Let us destroy her fortresses.”
Hebrew Names Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
English Standard Version
Arise, and let us attack by night and destroy her palaces!"
New American Standard Bible
'Arise, and let's attack by night And destroy her palaces!'"
New Century Version
So get up! We will attack at night. We will destroy the strong towers of Jerusalem!"
Amplified Bible
'Arise, let us [awaken to] attack her at night And destroy her [fortified] palaces!'"
World English Bible
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Arise, and let vs goe vp by night, and destroy her palaces.
Legacy Standard Bible
Arise, and let us go up by nightAnd destroy her palaces!"
Berean Standard Bible
Rise up, let us attack by night and destroy her fortresses!"
Contemporary English Version
we'll attack after dark and destroy its fortresses."
Complete Jewish Bible
"Get up! Let's attack at night! Let's destroy her palaces!"
Darby Translation
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Easy-to-Read Version
So get up! We will attack the city at night! Let's destroy the strong walls that are around Jerusalem."
George Lamsa Translation
Arise, and let us go up against her by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Good News Translation
We'll attack by night; we'll destroy the city's fortresses."
Lexham English Bible
Arise, and let us attack by night, and let us destroy her citadel fortresses."
Literal Translation
Rise up and let us go up by night and destroy her palaces.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Arise, let vs go vp by night, and destroye hir stronge holdes,
American Standard Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Bible in Basic English
Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.'
King James Version (1611)
Arise, and let vs goe by night, and let vs destroy her palaces.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Arise, let vs go vp by night, and destroy her strong holdes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Rise, and let us go up against her by night, and destroy her foundations.
English Revised Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Rise ye, and stie we in the niyt, and distry we the housis therof.
Update Bible Version
Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
Webster's Bible Translation
Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
New English Translation
So come on, let's go ahead and attack it by night and destroy all its fortified buildings.'
New King James Version
Arise, and let us go by night, And let us destroy her palaces."
New Living Translation
‘Well then, let's attack at night and destroy her palaces!'"
New Life Bible
Rise up, let us go and fight in the night and destroy her strong houses!"
New Revised Standard
"Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Arise! and let us go up in the night, And let us destroy her palaces.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Arise, and let us go up in the night, and destroy her houses.
Revised Standard Version
"Up, and let us attack by night, and destroy her palaces!"
Young's Literal Translation
`Rise, and we go up by night, And we destroy her palaces.'
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Arise, and let us attack by night And destroy her palaces!"

Contextual Overview

1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. 2 I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. 3 The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. 4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out. 5 Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces. 6 For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. 7 As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds. 8 Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

let us destroy: Jeremiah 9:21, Jeremiah 17:27, Jeremiah 52:13, 2 Chronicles 36:19, Psalms 48:3, Isaiah 32:14, Hosea 8:14, Amos 2:5, Amos 3:10, Amos 3:11, Zechariah 11:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:36 - Let us go Jeremiah 15:8 - the mother Hosea 4:5 - and the prophet Obadiah 1:1 - Arise

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:19
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.
Genesis 8:21
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
Deuteronomy 29:19
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Arise, and let us go up by night,.... Since they could not take the city at noon, and by day, as they expected, they propose to attempt it by night; they would lose no time, but proceed on, day and night, until they had accomplished their end; this shows how much they were resolved upon it, and that nothing could discourage from it; and that they were sure of carrying their point: and therefore it follows,

and let us destroy her palaces; the tower and strong hold of Zion, the temple of Jerusalem, the king's palace, the houses of the high priest, judges, counsellors, and other civil magistrates, as well as the cottages of the meaner sort of people; for the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "her houses"; which, notwithstanding her strong walls, were not secure from the enemy.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Up! and we will make the assault “by night!”

And destroy “her palaces.”

The generals delay the assault until the next morning. The soldiers consider themselves aggrieved at this, and clamour for a night attack.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 6:5. Arise, and let us go by night — Since we have lost the day, let us not lose the night; but, taking advantage of the darkness, let us make a powerful assault while they are under the impression of terror.


 
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