Jeremiah 49:28-33

Why are tents and herds no protection from the coming attack?

Berean Standard Bible

28 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east! 29 They will take their tents and flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. They will take their camels for themselves. They will shout to them: ‘Terror is on every side!’ 30 Run! Escape quickly! Lie low, O residents of Hazor,” declares the LORD, “for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has drawn up a plan against you; he has devised a strategy against you. 31 Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone. 32 Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD. 33 “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”

What is the context?

The word names Kedar and Hazor’s kingdoms in connection with Nebuchadnezzar. The threatened plunder includes tents, curtains, goods, camels, and flocks.

The people are described as living at ease without gates or bars. Their form of settlement has not put them beyond the reach of a planned invasion.

Scattering from every side and desolate habitation complete the warning. The point is the loss of assumed security, not a criticism that every mobile household is inherently unfaithful.

The text does not identify these kingdoms with every other biblical town called Hazor.

How is this passage commonly understood?

Wesley reads the command through Babylon’s military plans and the vulnerability of people living without fortified gates. His mention of the Hazor known in Joshua should not by itself settle the identity of the kingdoms named here.

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