Jeremiah 46:5
Jeremiah · Old Testament · Chapter 46
“Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.”Jeremiah 46:5
What Does Jeremiah 46:5 Mean?
Jeremiah 46:5 is found in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 46, verse 5 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Fear of God, Exile & Belonging, Courage, and Doubt.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Jeremiah 46:5 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Psalms 35:4“Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.”Jeremiah 6:25“Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.”Jeremiah 20:3“And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.”Jeremiah 46:21“Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.”Jeremiah 49:29“Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.”Job 18:11“Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.”Jeremiah 46:15“Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.”Jeremiah 49:5“Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.”Genesis 19:17“And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.”2 Kings 7:6“For the LORD had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.”Isaiah 19:16“In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.”Jeremiah 20:10“For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”Jeremiah 30:5“For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.”Lamentations 2:22“Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.”Lamentations 5:17“For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.”Ezekiel 30:13“Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.”Ezekiel 32:10“Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.”Nahum 2:8“But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.”Revelation 6:15“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;”Jeremiah 38:22“And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.”
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