Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jeremiah 48:6 Cross-References
Explore 10 cross-references for Jeremiah 48:6 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Jeremiah chapter 48 verse 6 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness. the heath: or, a naked tree”
Jeremiah 48:6 (KJV)
Commentary on Jeremiah 48:6
Flee, save your lives (נֻסוּ מַלְּטוּ נַפְשְׁכֶם nusu maletu nafshechem)—two imperative verbs: nus (flee, escape) and malet (deliver, save). The urgency is unmistakable: abandon everything and run. Be like the heath in the wilderness (וִהְיֶינָה כַּעֲרוֹעֵר בַּמִּדְבָּר vihyeynah ka'aro'er bamidbar)—the Hebrew aro'er refers to a scraggly desert shrub, likely juniper or tamarisk, that survives in barren wasteland through deep, hidden roots.This simile is paradoxical: flee to become like a worthless wilderness plant? The point is survival through humility and obscurity. Better to live as nothing...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Jeremiah 48:6
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“and shall not see when good comes”
“in the gloom of waste and desolation.”
“and save every man his life; don't be cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.”
“nor slumber to your eyelids.”
“when they had taken them out”
“I take refuge. How can you say to my soul”
“he who will be on the housetop”
“Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:”
“in which it is impossible for God to lie”
“You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?,Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?,,,,,,,,”