King James Version
Jeremiah 51:31 in the King James Version says “One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is take...” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 51 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,”
Jeremiah 51:31 · KJV
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. it is: or, in the time that he thresheth her
KJV Study — Public Domain
“to meet”
H7125an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
“and one messenger”
H5046properly, to front, i.e., stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to
“to meet”
H7125an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
“and one messenger”
H5046properly, to front, i.e., stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to
“and one messenger”
H5046properly, to front, i.e., stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“is taken”
H3920to catch (in a net, trap or pit); generally, to capture or occupy; also to choose (by lot); figuratively, to cohere
“that his city”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
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