King James Version
Jeremiah 46:22 in the King James Version says “The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers ...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 46 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.”
Jeremiah 46:22 · KJV
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.
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. fatted: Heb. bullocks of the stall
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable .
The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“with an army”
H2428probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength
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