Jeremiah 48:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 48:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 17:6
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jeremiah 51:6
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
Job 30:3-7
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. …
Luke 17:31-33
In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. …
Matthew 24:16-18
Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-13)

We may observe in these verses, I. The author of Moab’s destruction; it is the Lord of hosts, that has armies, all armies, at his command, and the God of Israel (Jer. 48:1), who will herein plead the cause of his Israel against a people that have always been vexatious to them, and will punish them now for the injuries done to Israel of old, though Israel was forbidden to meddle with them (Deut. 2:…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. They exhort one another to flee. heath--or the juniper (see on Jr 17:6). Maurer translates, “Be like one naked in the wilderness.” But the sense is, Live in the wilderness like the heath, or juniper; do not “trust in” walls (Jr 48:7) [Grotius]. (Compare Mt 24:16-18).