King James Version
Jeremiah 49:38 in the King James Version says “And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 49 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.”
Jeremiah 49:38 · KJV
And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And I will set”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“in Elam”
H5867elam, a son of shem and his descendants, with their country; also of six israelites
“and will destroy”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
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