Jeremiah 6:5

Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Ver. 5. Let us destroy her palaces.] Where we shall find all precious substance; we shall fill our hands with spoil. as Pro 1:13

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

This night — They would lose neither day nor night; which shews that, they were extraordinarily stirred up by God in this expedition.

⁵ Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 6:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 6:5