Jeremiah 49:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² “Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall sound a battle cry in Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be a heap, a wasteland, and her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Yisra’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it [the high ground on which it stands] will become a desolate heap, and its daughter [villages] will be burned with fire. Then will Israel dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the Lord. [Ezek. 21:28-32; 25:1-7, 11; Amos 1:13-15; Zeph. 2:8-11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did possess him, saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

² Therefore, the time is coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle alarm against Rabbah, the capital city of the Ammonites. The city will be demolished, and its neighboring villages will be burned to the ground. Then Israel will repossess the land seized by its captors, says the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Therefore, behold, the days are approaching, says the Lord, when I will cause the noise of battle to be heard over Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. And it will be scattered into a tumult, and her daughters will be burned with fire. And Israel shall possess those who had possessed him, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 49:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:1

And it came to be at the turn of the year, at the time sovereigns go out to battle, that Dawiḏ

Psalm 48:11

Let Mount Tsiyon rejoice, Let the daughters of Yehuḏ

Psalm 97:8

Tsiyon shall hear and be glad, And the daughters of Yehuḏ

Isaiah 11:14

But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; together they plunder the people of the east, their hand stretching forth on Eḏ

Isaiah 17:1

The message concerning Damascus. “See, Damascus ceases to be a city, and shall become a heap of ruins.

Jeremiah 4:19

O my inward parts, my inward parts! I am in pain! O the walls of my heart! My heart pounds in me, I am not silent. For you have heard, O my being, the sound of the ram’s horn, a shout of battle!

Jeremiah 49:1

Concerning the Ammonites: Thus said יהוה, “Has Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 21:20

“Appoint a way for the sword to go to Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to Yehuḏ

Ezekiel 21:25

‘And to you, O profane, wrong one, leader of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 1:14

“So I shall kindle a fire upon the wall of Rabbah, and it shall consume its palaces, with a shout in the day of battle, with a storm in the day of the whirlwind.

Obadiah 1:19

And they shall possess the South with the mountains of Ě

Numbers 10:9

“And when you go into battle in your land against the enemy that distresses you, then you shall shout with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before יהוה  your Elohim, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

Numbers 21:25

And Yisra’ĕ

Deuteronomy 13:16

“And gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, before יהוה  your Elohim. And it shall be a heap forever, never to be built again.

Deuteronomy 3:11

“For only Og sovereign of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Repha’ites. See, his bedstead was an iron bedstead. Is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the cubit of a man.

Joshua 17:11

And in Yissasḵ

Joshua 17:16

Then the children of Yosĕ