Jeremias 28:3

3 Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.

Jeremias 28:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 28:3

Within two full years
Or, "within two years of days" ^F15; when they are up to a day. The Targum is,

``at the end of two years;''

what the false prophets before had said would be done in a very little time; this fixes the precise time of doing it; a very short time, in comparison of the seventy years that Jeremiah had spoken of, ( Jeremiah 25:11 Jeremiah 25:12 ) ; will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the Lord's
house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place;
the temple, where he now was; namely, all such vessels as before this time had been taken by him, both in Jehoiakim's reign, and at the captivity of Jeconiah: and carried them to Babylon;
where they still remained, and according to Jeremiah still would; and were so far from being brought back in a short time, that what were left would be carried thither also, ( Jeremiah 27:19-21 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (Mymy Mytnv dweb) "in adhuc duobis anois dierum", Montanus; "intra adhuc biennium dierum", Schmidt; "intra biennum dierum", Cocceius.

Jeremias 28:3 In-Context

1 Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I stir up against Babylon, and against the Chaldeans dwelling therein, a deadly burning wind.

2 And I will send forth against Babylon spoilers, and they shall spoil her, and shall ravage her land. Woe to Babylon round about in the day of her affliction.

3 Let the archer bend his bow, and him that has armour put it on: and spare ye not her young men, but destroy ye all her host.

4 And slain men shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through shall fall without it.

5 For Israel and Juda have not been forsaken of their God, of the Lord Almighty; whereas their land was filled with iniquity against the holy things of Israel.