OLD TESTAMENT

Jeremiah 25:9

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behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says the LORD, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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Verse 9. My servant. So this wicked king is here called; because God made him his instrument in punishing the sins of his people. Challoner. Worthington.—He thought himself more than man, but he was only the rod destined for the fire.

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