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Jeremiah 46:20

King James Version (KJV)

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Jeremiah 46:20

Verse 20 of 28

Scripture focus

Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

Jeremiah 46:20 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 46:20

Theological / Devotional

Destruction. Heb. qeres, a word appearing only here in the Bible. Its root meaning, “to pinch,” “to nip,” suggests that qeres may refer to a biting insect that stings the heifer of Egypt into flight. The RSV reads, “a gadfly from the north has come upon her.”

North. See on ch. 1:14.

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