Jeremiah 8:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 8:3 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Jeremiah 29:14
And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Jeremiah 23:3
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
Jeremiah 23:8
But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.
Job 7:15-16
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

These verses might fitly have been joined to the close of the foregoing chapter, as giving a further description of the dreadful desolation which the army of the Chaldeans should make in the land. It shall strangely alter the property of death itself, and for the worse too. I. Death shall not now be, as it always used to be—the repose of the dead. When Job makes his court to the grave it is in hop…

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

(vv. 3)

3. The survivors shall be still worse off than the dead (Job 3:21, 22; Re 9:6). which remain in all the places--“in all places of them that remain, whither I ... that is, in all places whither I have driven them that remain [Maurer].