Jeremiah 44:28
ContextNETBible | Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! 1 Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, 2 mine or theirs.’ |
XREF | Nu 14:28,29,41; Ps 33:11; Isa 10:19,22; Isa 14:24-27; Isa 27:12,13; Isa 28:16-18; Isa 46:10,11; Jer 44:14; Jer 44:16,17,25,26,29; La 3:37,38; Zec 1:6; Mt 24:35 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “The survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number [more literally, “men of number”; for the idiom see BDB 709 s.v. מִסְפָּר 1.a].” The term “survivors of the sword” may be intended to represent both those who survive death in war or death by starvation or disease, a synecdoche of species for all three genera. sn This statement shows that the preceding “none,” “never again,” “all” in vv. 26-27 are rhetorical hyperbole. Not all but almost all; very few would survive. The following statement implies that the reason that they are left alive is to bear witness to the fact that the 2 tn Heb “will stand,” i.e., in the sense of being fulfilled, proving to be true, or succeeding (see BDB 878 s.v. קוּם 7.g). |