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Jeremiah 49:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore look, the days are coming   – this is the  Lord’s declaration – when I will make the shout of battle   heard against Rabbah  of the Ammonites. It will become a desolate mound, and its surrounding villages will be set on fire. Israel will dispossess their dispossessors, says the Lord.

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My anguish, my anguish!  I writhe in agony! Oh, the pain in   my heart! My heart pounds; I cannot be silent. For you, my soul, have heard the sound of the ram’s horn – the shout of battle.


Mark out a road that the sword can take to Rabbah of the Ammonites  and to Judah into fortified Jerusalem.


(Only King Og of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim.  His bed  was made of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites?  It is 4 metres long and 1.8 metres wide by a standard measure.  )


Therefore, I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah, and it will consume its citadels. There will be shouting on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of the storm.


In the spring when kings march out to war, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.


About the Ammonites,  this is what the Lord says: Does Israel have no sons? Is he without an heir? Why then has Milcom  , dispossessed Gad and his people settled in their cities?


Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its surrounding villages.


People from the Negev will possess the hill country of Esau; those from the Judean foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They  will possess the territories of Ephraim and Samaria, while Benjamin will possess Gilead.


‘When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who is attacking you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God and be saved from your enemies.


You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn the city and all its spoil for the Lord your God. The city is to remain a mound of ruins for ever;  it is not to be rebuilt.


Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean, Ibleam, and the inhabitants of Dor with their surrounding villages;  the inhabitants of En-dor, Taanach, and Megiddo #– #the three cities of  Naphath #– #with their surrounding villages.


But the descendants of Joseph said, ‘The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who inhabit the valley area have iron chariots, both at Beth-shean with its surrounding villages and in the Jezreel Valley.’


A pronouncement  concerning Damascus: Look, Damascus is no longer a city. It has become a ruined heap.


But they will swoop down on the Philistine flank to the west. Together they will plunder the people of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be their subjects.


And you, profane and wicked prince of Israel,  , the day has come  for your punishment.





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