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The Defeat at Carchemish (605 BC)
Jeremiah 46:3-12
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"Prepare breastplate and shield! Advance to battle!
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Harness the horses! Riders, mount! [Troops,] fall in! Helmets in place! Polish the spears! Coats of mail on!
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"Why do I see them retreating in panic, their heroes routed, fleeing headlong, not looking back, terror all around?" asks ADONAI.
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"The swift cannot flee, nor the heroes escape. In the north, by the Euphrates River, they have stumbled and fallen."
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Who is this, rising up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge out in flood?
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It is Egypt, rising up like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge out in flood, saying, "I will surge out and cover the earth, destroying the city along with its people."
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Charge, horses! Full speed ahead, chariots! Let the warriors attack! - Kush and Put, bearing their shields, and the Ludim, strung bows in hand.
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For on that day Adonai ELOHEI-Tzva'ot will have a day of vengeance for avenging himself on his enemies. The sword will destroy, have its fill, be made drunk on their blood. Yes, Adonai ELOHEI-Tzva'ot decrees slaughter in the land to the north by the Euphrates River.
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Go up to Gil'ad for its healing resin, virgin daughter of Egypt. You try many medicines, all in vain; for you there is no cure.
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The nations have heard about your disgrace; your shrieks fill the earth as warrior trips over warrior, both falling down together.
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