Jeremiah 34:22
Behold, I will command, saith the Lord, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without an inhabitant.
Context
This verse from Jeremiah Chapter 34 connects to 10 cross-references. Jeremiah delivers an oracle to Zedekiah that he will die peacefully despite the city's fall. A later oracle condemns the Jerusalem leaders who freed slaves only to re-enslave them when Babylonian pressure temporarily lifted — breaking the covenant of liberation. …
Other Translations
Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
Lo, I am commanding--an affirmation of Jehovah--and have brought them back unto this city, and they have fought against it, and captured it, and burned it with fire, and the cities of Judah I do make a desolation--without inhabitant.'
See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.
Cross References
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh …
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, …
Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the …
Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the …
Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without …
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and …
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice …
In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? …