Jeremiah 46:4 “Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets…”

Jeremiah 46:4

Harness the horses; mount the steeds; take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears; put on armor!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

World English Bible

Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand up with your helmets. Polish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

American Standard Version

Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

Geneva Bible 1599

Make readie the horses, and let the horsemen get vp, and stande vp with your sallets, fourbish the speares, and put on the brigandines.

Darby Translation

Harness the horses, and mount ye horsemen, and stand forth with helmets; polish the spears, put on the coats of mail!

Young's Literal Translation

Gird the horses, and go up, ye horsemen, And station yourselves with helmets, Polish the javelins, put on the coats of mail.

Bible in Basic English

Make the horses ready, and get up, you horsemen, and take your places with your head-dresses; make the spears sharp and put on the breastplates.

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Cross references

“furbish”

Ezekiel 21:9–11 Ezekiel 21:28

Ezekiel 21:9–11 · BSB

“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—

Ezekiel 21:28 · BSB

Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—

“brigandines”

Jeremiah 51:3

Jeremiah 51:3 · BSB

Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!

Also

1 Samuel 17:38 1 Samuel 17:5 2 Chronicles 26:14 Nehemiah 4:16

1 Samuel 17:38 · BSB

Then Saul clothed David in his own tunic, put a bronze helmet on his head, and dressed him in armor.

1 Samuel 17:5 · BSB

and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,

2 Chronicles 26:14 · BSB

Uzziah supplied the entire army with shields, spears, helmets, armor, bows, and slingstones.

Nehemiah 4:16 · BSB

And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of Judah

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!

5Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.

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