Jeremiah 39:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּרְדְּפ֨וּ חֵיל־כַּשְׂדִּ֜ים אַחֲרֵיהֶ֗ם וַיַּשִּׂ֣גוּ אֶת־צִדְקִיָּהוּ֮ בְּעַֽרְב֣וֹת יְרֵחוֹ֒ וַיִּקְח֣וּ אֹת֗וֹ וַֽ֠יַּעֲלֻהוּ אֶל־נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֧ר מֶֽלֶךְ־בָּבֶ֛ל רִבְלָ֖תָה בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חֲמָ֑ת וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר אִתּ֖וֹ מִשְׁפָּטִֽים׃

Transliteration

And-yirdəpû ḥêl-kaśdîm after-them, and-yaśśîgû ʾet-ṣidqiyyāhû in-ʿarbôt yərēḥô, and-yiqḥû him and-yaʿăluhû to-nəbûkadreʾṣṣar melek-bābel riblātāh in-ʾereṣ ḥămāt, and-yədabbēr with-him mišpāṭîm.

Grammar Details

• *yirdəpû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + waw consecutive - and they pursued
• *ḥêl*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - army/force of
• *kaśdîm*: proper name, masculine, plural - Chaldeans
• *yaśśîgû*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + waw consecutive - and they overtook/caught
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ṣidqiyyāhû*: proper name, masculine - Zedekiah
• *ʿarbôt*: noun, feminine, plural, construct - plains of
• *yərēḥô*: proper name - Jericho
• *yiqḥû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + waw consecutive - and they took
• *yaʿăluhû*: verb, hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix + waw consecutive - and they brought him up
• *nəbûkadreʾṣṣar*: proper name, masculine - Nebuchadnezzar
• *melek*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - king of
• *bābel*: proper name - Babylon
• *riblātāh*: proper name with directional he - to Riblah
• *ʾereṣ*: noun, feminine, singular, construct - land of
• *ḥămāt*: proper name - Hamath
• *yədabbēr*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + waw consecutive - and he spoke
• *mišpāṭîm*: noun, masculine, plural - judgments

Word Meanings

• *ḥêl*-*kaśdîm*: army of the Chaldeans/Chaldean forces
• *yaśśîgû*: overtook/caught/reached/captured
• *ʿarbôt*: plains/desert plains/steppes
• *yaʿăluhû*: brought him up/took him up/led him up
• *mišpāṭîm*: judgments/sentences/legal decisions/punishments

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 23:33 : 33 And Pharaohnechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
• Josh 5:10 : 10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
• Jer 32:4-5 : 4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes; 5 And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.
• Jer 38:18 : 18 But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.
• Jer 38:23 : 23 So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.
• Jer 52:8-9 : 8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 9 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
• Jer 52:26-27 : 26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.
• Josh 4:13 : 13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
• Num 13:21 : 21 So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.
• Lam 1:3 : 3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
• Lam 4:20 : 20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
• Ezek 17:15-21 : 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered? 16 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons: 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape. 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head. 20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me. 21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it.
• Josh 13:5 : 5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
• Judg 3:3 : 3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
• 2 Sam 8:9 : 9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,
• 2 Kgs 17:24 : 24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
• 2 Kgs 25:6 : 6 So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
• 2 Chr 33:11 : 11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
• Jer 4:12 : 12 Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.