For behold, (A)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
    that bitter and hasty nation,
(B)who march through the breadth of the earth,
    (C)to seize dwellings not their own.

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I am raising up the Babylonians,[a](A)
    that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth(B)
    to seize dwellings not their own.(C)

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  1. Habakkuk 1:6 Or Chaldeans

And the Lord sent against him bands of the (A)Chaldeans and (B)bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, (C)according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.

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The Lord sent Babylonian,[a](A) Aramean,(B) Moabite and Ammonite raiders(C) against him to destroy(D) Judah, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by his servants the prophets.(E)

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  1. 2 Kings 24:2 Or Chaldean

15 (A)Behold, I am bringing against you
    a nation from afar, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.
It is an enduring nation;
    it is an ancient nation,
a nation whose language you do not know,
    (B)nor can you understand what they say.

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15 People of Israel,” declares the Lord,
    “I am bringing a distant nation(A) against you—
an ancient and enduring nation,
    a people whose language(B) you do not know,
    whose speech you do not understand.

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(A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

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I will summon(A) all the peoples of the north(B) and my servant(C) Nebuchadnezzar(D) king of Babylon,” declares the Lord, “and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy[a](E) them and make them an object of horror and scorn,(F) and an everlasting ruin.(G)

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  1. Jeremiah 25:9 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.

‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: (A)Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands and with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and against the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the walls. (B)And I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

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‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am about to turn(A) against you the weapons of war that are in your hands, which you are using to fight the king of Babylon and the Babylonians[a] who are outside the wall besieging(B) you. And I will gather them inside this city.

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  1. Jeremiah 21:4 Or Chaldeans; also in verse 9

22 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“Behold, a people is coming (B)from the north country,
    a great nation is stirring from (C)the farthest parts of the earth.
23 They lay hold on bow and javelin;
    they are (D)cruel and have no mercy;
    (E)the sound of them is like the roaring sea;
they ride on horses,
    set in array as a man for battle,
    against you, O daughter of Zion!”

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22 This is what the Lord says:

“Look, an army is coming
    from the land of the north;(A)
a great nation is being stirred up
    from the ends of the earth.(B)
23 They are armed with bow and spear;
    they are cruel and show no mercy.(C)
They sound like the roaring sea(D)
    as they ride on their horses;(E)
they come like men in battle formation
    to attack you, Daughter Zion.(F)

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For this (A)put on sackcloth,
    lament and wail,
for (B)the fierce anger of the Lord
    has not turned back from us.”

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So put on sackcloth,(A)
    lament(B) and wail,
for the fierce anger(C) of the Lord
    has not turned away from us.

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(A)Raise a standard toward Zion,
    flee for safety, stay not,
for I bring disaster from (B)the north,
    (C)and great destruction.

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Raise the signal(A) to go to Zion!
    Flee for safety without delay!
For I am bringing disaster(B) from the north,(C)
    even terrible destruction.”

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15 For behold, (A)I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, declares the Lord, (B)and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all around and against all the cities of Judah. 16 And (C)I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil (D)in forsaking me. (E)They have made offerings to other gods and (F)worshiped the works of their own hands.

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15 I am about to summon all the peoples of the northern kingdoms,” declares the Lord.

“Their kings will come and set up their thrones
    in the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem;
they will come against all her surrounding walls
    and against all the towns of Judah.(A)
16 I will pronounce my judgments(B) on my people
    because of their wickedness(C) in forsaking me,(D)
in burning incense to other gods(E)
    and in worshiping(F) what their hands have made.(G)

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(A)Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. (B)And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”

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The time will surely come when everything in your palace, and all that your predecessors have stored up until this day, will be carried off to Babylon.(A) Nothing will be left, says the Lord. And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood who will be born to you, will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.(B)

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13 Behold the land of (A)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;[a] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected (B)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

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  1. Isaiah 23:13 Or that has become nothing

13 Look at the land of the Babylonians,[a](A)
    this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians(B) have made it
    a place for desert creatures;(C)
they raised up their siege towers,(D)
    they stripped its fortresses bare
    and turned it into a ruin.(E)

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  1. Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans

Jerusalem Captured and Burned

17 (A)Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.

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17 He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[a](A) who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men(B) or young women, the elderly or the infirm.(C) God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.(D)

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  1. 2 Chronicles 36:17 Or Chaldeans

(A)Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon (B)and bound him in chains (C)to take him to Babylon.

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Nebuchadnezzar(A) king of Babylon attacked him and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.(B)

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