Jer 46:6-7 | JFB | e4.org | 6. Let not —equivalent to the strongest negation. Let not any of the Egyptian warriors think to escape by swiftness or by might. toward the north —that is, in respect to Egypt or Judea. In the northward region, by the Euphrates (see ).

‏ Jeremiah 46:6-7

6. Let not—equivalent to the strongest negation. Let not any of the Egyptian warriors think to escape by swiftness or by might.

toward the north—that is, in respect to Egypt or Judea. In the northward region, by the Euphrates (see Jer 46:2).

7. as a flood— (Jer 47:2; Isa 8:7, 8; Da 11:22). The figure is appropriate in addressing Egyptians, as the Nile, their great river, yearly overspreads their lands with a turbid, muddy flood. So their army, swelling with arrogance, shall overspread the region south of Euphrates; but it, like the Nile, shall retreat as fast as it advanced.