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Lexicon :: Strong's H3627 - kᵊlî

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כְּלִי
Transliteration
kᵊlî
Pronunciation
kel-ee'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 982g

Strong’s Definitions

כְּלִי kᵉlîy, kel-ee'; from H3615; something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon):—armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, × one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, whatsoever.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 325x

The KJV translates Strong's H3627 in the following manner: vessel (166x), instrument (39x), weapon (21x), jewel (21x), armourbearer (with H5375) (18x), stuff (14x), thing (11x), armour (10x), furniture (7x), carriage (3x), bag (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 325x
The KJV translates Strong's H3627 in the following manner: vessel (166x), instrument (39x), weapon (21x), jewel (21x), armourbearer (with H5375) (18x), stuff (14x), thing (11x), armour (10x), furniture (7x), carriage (3x), bag (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

  1. article, vessel, implement, utensil

    1. article, object (general)

    2. utensil, implement, apparatus, vessel

      1. implement (of hunting or war)

      2. implement (of music)

      3. implement, tool (of labour)

      4. equipment, yoke (of oxen)

      5. utensils, furniture

    3. vessel, receptacle (general)

    4. vessels (boats) of paper-reed

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כְּלִי kᵉlîy, kel-ee'; from H3615; something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon):—armour(-bearer), artillery, bag, carriage, furnish, furniture, instrument, jewel, that is made of, × one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, whatsoever.
STRONGS H3627: Abbreviations
כְּלִי 324 noun masculineHosea 8:8 article, utensil, vessel (Late Hebrew id.; according to Thes from כלה = conficere, like German Zeug fromzeugen; properly therefore anything finished, made, produced; according to BaZMG 1887, 605 from meaning enclose, contain; he finds plural of כְּלִי in כלאי M-I23 (compare כלאים)) — כ׳ absolute Jeremiah 18:4 +; הַכֶּ֑לִי 1 Samuel 17:49; 1 Samuel 21:6; construct כְּלִי Hosea 13:15 +; suffix כֶּלְיְךָ Deuteronomy 23:25; plural כֵּלִים Exodus 22:6 +; construct כְּלֵי Genesis 24:53 +; suffix כֵּלַי Genesis 31:37 + 2 times; כֵּלֶיךָ Genesis 27:3; Ezekiel 12:4; כֵּלֵינוּ 1 Samuel 9:7; כְּלֵיכֶם Genesis 43:11 +; כְּלֵיהֶם Joshua 7:11 +; —
1. in general, article, object, made of any material, thing, especially thing of value זָהָב כ׳ 1 Samuel 6:8, 15 (images of mice, etc.), personal or household property Genesis 31:37 (twice in verse) (E; Genesis 31:37b כֹּל כְּלֵיבֵֿיתֶ֑ךָ), Genesis 45:20 (E), כְּלֵי בֵיתֿ טוֺבִיָּהוּ Nehemiah 13:18; Joshua 7:11 (JE), כֶּסֶף אוֺ כֵּלִים Exodus 22:6 (E) money or articles (property), כְּלִי־פָּ֑ז Job 28:17 (apparently collective); things carried, plural = stuff, load, baggage (impedimenta) 1 Samuel 17:22 (twice in verse), apparently = baggage-train 1 Samuel 10:22; 1 Samuel 25:13; 1 Samuel 30:24; Isaiah 10:28; (compare Genesis 31:37 above); כְּלֵי גוֺלָה things of exile, i.e. the most necessary articles, such as exiles may take, Jeremiah 46:19; Ezekiel 12:3, 4b; Ezekiel 12:7b, compare Ezekiel 12:4a, Ezekiel 12:7a; = ornaments or jewels Genesis 24:53 (J; זָהָב כֶסֶף וכ׳ כ׳, probably = ornaments), זהב כסף וכ׳ כ׳ also Exodus 3:22; Exodus 11:2; Exodus 12:35 (all E); Isaiah 61:10; Exodus 35:22; Numbers 31:50, כְּלֵי מַעֲשֶׂה Numbers 31:51 (all P), כְּלִי יְקָר Proverbs 20:15 (in figurative), תִפְאַרְתֵּךְ כ׳ Ezekiel 16:17, 39; Ezekiel 23:26 (all in figure); כְּלֵי נְחשֶׁת as merchandise Ezekiel 27:13; כֵּלִים as cargo of ship Jonah 1:5; כסף וזהב וּכְלֵי נְחשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל Joshua 6:19, 24 (J E; spoil of war); of any household article (on which one sits) Leviticus 15:4, 6, 22, 23, 26 (all P); of skin Numbers 31:20, or wood Numbers 31:20 (P); כְּלִי חֶמְדָּה Nahum 2:10 precious thing, so Hosea 13:15 (figurative), Jeremiah 25:34 (simile), 2 Chronicles 32:27; Daniel 11:8, כלי חֲמֻדוֺת 2 Chronicles 20:25 (apparently = ornaments); also כְּלִי אֵיןחֵֿפֶץ בּוֺ Jeremiah 22:28 (figurative of Coniah, || עֶצֶב נִבְזֶה נָפוּץ), Hosea 8:8 (simile; compare Jeremiah 48:38 below); † specifically of garments (one's 'things'): כְּלִיגֶֿבֶר Deuteronomy 22:5 (|| שִׂמְלַת אִשָּׁה), so כְּלִיֿ עוֺר Leviticus 13:49 (compare מְלֶאכֶת עוֺר Leviticus 13:48), Leviticus 13:52; Leviticus 13:53; Leviticus 13:57; Leviticus 13:58; Leviticus 13:59 (all P).
2. utensil, implement, apparatus:
†a. implement of hunting and (especially) war, = weapon Genesis 27:3 (J), 1 Samuel 20:40; 1 Samuel 21:9 (גַּם חַרְבִּי וְגַם כֵּלַי), 1 Kings 11:8 2 Chronicles 23:7; 1 Kings 11:11; Isaiah 54:16, 17; Jeremiah 22:7; probably also Numbers 35:32, כְּלִי בַּרְזֶל Numbers 35:16, כְּלִי עֵץיָֿד Numbers 35:18 (all P); כְּלֵי חָמָם Genesis 49:5 (poem); כְּלִי מַשְׁחֵתוֺ Ezekiel 9:1, מַפָּצוֹ כ׳ Ezekiel 9:2; figurative of God's weapons כְּלֵימָֿוֶת Psalm 7:14 (|| חִצָּיו); זַעְמוֺ כ׳ Isaiah 13:5; Jeremiah 50:25; of entire equipment of warrior, armour or armament offensive and defensive 1 Samuel 17:54 (compare 1 Samuel 17:5ff.), 1 Samuel 21:6 (twice in verse) (see DrSm 139. 293), 1 Samuel 31:9, 10 = 1 Chronicles 10:9, 10; hence נשֵֹׁא כֵלִים (כֵּלָיוׅ armour—weapon-bearer Judges 9:54; 1 Samuel 14:1, 6, 7, 12 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 14:13 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 14:14, 17; 1 Samuel 16:21; 1 Samuel 31:4 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 31:5, 6 = 1 Chronicles 10:4 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 10:5, 2 Samuel 18:15; 2 Samuel 23:37 = 1 Chronicles 11:39; figurative וְכֵלַי כֵּלָיו רָעִים Isaiah 32:7 and a knave, his weapons (i.e. devices, Che 'machinations') are evil; more precisely כְּלֵי מִלְחָמָה Judges 18:11, 16, 17; 1 Samuel 8:12; 2 Samuel 1:27; Deuteronomy 1:41; Jeremiah 21:4; Jeremiah 50:20 (figurative), Ezekiel 32:27; 1 Chronicles 12:34 [1 Chronicles 12:33] (van d. H 1 Chronicles 12:33 [1 Chronicles 12:32]); כְּלֵי צְבָא מִלְחָמָה 1 Chronicles 12:38 [1 Chronicles 12:37] (van d. H 1 Chronicles 12:37); כְּלֵי קְרָב Ecclesiastes 9:18; בֵּית כֵּלָיו 2 Kings 20:13 = Isaiah 39:2 is perhaps armoury; כ׳ Ezekiel 40:42 is sacrificial knife.
†b. instrument of music כְּלֵי (הַ)שִּׁיר Amos 6:5; 1 Chronicles 15:16; 1 Chronicles 16:42; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 7:6; 23:13; 34:12; כְּלֵי דָוִיד 2 Chronicles 29:26, 27, שִֿׁיר דָּוִיד כ׳ Nehemiah 12:36; כְּלִי נֶבֶל Psalm 71:22, נְבָלִים כ׳ 1 Chronicles 16:5; כֵּלִים alone 1 Chronicles 23:5, compare Numbers 31:6 (P; כְּלֵי הַקֹּדֶשׁ); — for בִּכְלֵי עֹז (ליהוהׅ 2 Chronicles 30:21 read בְּכָלעֹֿז (KauAT, compare Be).
†c. implement of labour, tool בַרְזֶל כ׳ 1 Kings 6:7, or of one's calling, pursuit קַחלְֿךָ כְּלִי רֹעֶה אֱוִלִי Zechariah 11:15 (otherwise 1 Samuel 17:40, see 3).
†d. equipment of oxen (yoke, etc.) 2 Samuel 24:22; 1 Kings 19:21.
†e. כְּלֵי רִכְכּוֺ 1 Samuel 8:22 his chariot-equipments.
f. as general term for utensils and furniture of Solomon's palace 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20; especially (very often) of tabernacle Exodus 25:9, 39; Exodus 27:3 + — 1 Kings 7:45, 47, 48; 2 Kings 12:14 +; of both palace and temple Jeremiah 27:18, 19, 21; combinations are כְּלֵי הַמִּשְׁכָּן Exodus 27:19, הַמִּזְבֵּחַ כ׳ Exodus 38:3, יהוה כ׳ Isaiah 52:11, בֵית י׳ כ׳ Jeremiah 27:16; Jeremiah 28:3, 6; Ezra 1:7, כְּלֵי חֶמְדַּת בֵּית י׳ 2 Chronicles 36:10, בֵית כ׳ אֱלֹהִים 2 Chronicles 28:24 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 36:18; Nehemiah 13:9; Daniel 1:2, הַמִּקְדָּשׁ כ׳ Nehemiah 10:40; הַשָּׁרֵת כ׳ Numbers 4:12 utensil of ministry, עֲבֹדָתָם כ׳ Numbers 4:26; 1 Chronicles 9:28; 1 Chronicles 28:14 (twice in verse), עֲבוֺדַת בֵּית י׳ כ׳ 1 Chronicles 28:13, מִשְׁמֶרֶת מַשָּׂאָם כ׳ Numbers 4:32; also הַקֹּדֶשׁ כ׳ 1 Kings 8:4; 1 Chronicles 9:29; of appliances of idol-workship 2 Kings 23:4.
3. vessel, receptacle, of various materials and for various purposes Genesis 43:11 (J); 1 Samuel 9:7; Deuteronomy 23:25; = sack Genesis 42:25 (E; שַׂק in || clause, compare אַמְתַּחַת Genesis 42:27); כְּלִי הָרֹעִים shepherd's bag or wallet 1 Samuel 17:40, compare 1 Samuel 17:49; חֶרֶשׂ כ׳ Jeremiah 32:14 is earthen-ware receptacle for deed of sale; for liquids 1 Kings 17:10; 2 Kings 4:3 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 4:4, 6 (3 times in verse), מַשְׁקֶה כ׳ 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20, כְּלֵי שַׁמְנָהּ Numbers 4:9, compare Numbers 4:10; וְלֹא הוּרַק מִכְּלִי אֶלכֶּֿ֑לִי Jeremiah 48:11 (figurative), compare Jeremiah 48:12 (|| נְבָלִים); for cooking Leviticus 6:21 (חֶרֶשׂ כ׳), Leviticus 6:21 (נְחשֶׁת כ׳); see also (הַ)יּוֺצֵר 2 Samuel 17:28; Jeremiah 19:11 (simile), Psalm 2:9 (simile), לַצֹּרֵף כֶּ֑לִי Proverbs 25:4; כ׳ פָתוּחַ Numbers 19:15 an open (uncovered) vessel. טָהוֺר כ׳ Isaiah 66:20 a clean vessel; figurative of Eliakim's relatives כְּלֵי הַקָּטָ֑ן מִכְּלֵי הָאַגָּנוֺת וְעַד כָּלכְּֿלֵי הַנְּבָלִים Isaiah 22:24 the vessels of smallness (DaSynt. § 32, R. 5), from the basin-vessels to all the pitcher-vessels.
4. specifically כְּלֵיגֹֿמֶא Isaiah 18:2 vessels (boats) of paper-reed.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:53; 24:53; 27:3; 27:3; 31:37; 31:37; 31:37; 31:37; 42:25; 42:27; 43:11; 43:11; 45:20; 49:5

Exodus

3:22; 11:2; 12:35; 22:6; 22:6; 25:9; 25:39; 27:3; 27:19; 35:22; 38:3

Leviticus

6:21; 6:21; 13:48; 13:49; 13:52; 13:53; 13:57; 13:58; 13:59; 15:4; 15:6; 15:22; 15:23; 15:26

Numbers

4:9; 4:10; 4:12; 4:26; 4:32; 19:15; 31:6; 31:20; 31:20; 31:50; 31:51; 35:16; 35:18; 35:32

Deuteronomy

1:41; 22:5; 23:25; 23:25

Joshua

6:19; 6:24; 7:11; 7:11

Judges

9:54; 18:11; 18:16; 18:17

1 Samuel

6:8; 6:15; 8:12; 8:22; 9:7; 9:7; 10:22; 14:1; 14:6; 14:7; 14:12; 14:13; 14:14; 14:17; 16:21; 17:5; 17:22; 17:40; 17:40; 17:49; 17:49; 17:54; 20:40; 21:6; 21:6; 21:9; 25:13; 30:24; 31:4; 31:5; 31:6; 31:9; 31:10

2 Samuel

1:27; 17:28; 18:15; 23:37; 24:22

1 Kings

6:7; 7:45; 7:47; 7:48; 8:4; 10:21; 10:21; 11:8; 11:11; 17:10; 19:21

2 Kings

4:3; 4:4; 4:6; 12:14; 20:13; 23:4

1 Chronicles

9:28; 9:29; 10:4; 10:5; 10:9; 10:10; 11:39; 12:32; 12:33; 12:37; 12:37; 15:16; 16:5; 16:42; 23:5; 28:13; 28:14

2 Chronicles

5:13; 7:6; 9:20; 9:20; 20:25; 23:7; 23:13; 28:24; 29:26; 29:27; 30:21; 32:27; 34:12; 36:10; 36:18

Ezra

1:7

Nehemiah

12:36; 13:9; 13:18

Job

28:17

Psalms

2:9; 7:14; 71:22

Proverbs

20:15; 25:4

Ecclesiastes

9:18

Isaiah

10:28; 13:5; 18:2; 22:24; 32:7; 39:2; 52:11; 54:16; 54:17; 61:10; 66:20

Jeremiah

18:4; 19:11; 21:4; 22:7; 22:28; 25:34; 27:16; 27:18; 27:19; 27:21; 28:3; 28:6; 32:14; 46:19; 48:11; 48:12; 48:38; 50:20; 50:25

Ezekiel

9:1; 9:2; 12:3; 12:4; 12:4; 12:4; 12:7; 12:7; 16:17; 16:39; 23:26; 27:13; 32:27; 40:42

Daniel

1:2; 11:8

Hosea

8:8; 8:8; 13:15; 13:15

Amos

6:5

Jonah

1:5

Nahum

2:10

Zechariah

11:15

H3627

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Strong's Number H3627 matches the Hebrew כְּלִי (kᵊlî),
which occurs 27 times in 25 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 - Her nobles send their servants for water;
they come to the cisterns;
they find no water;
they return with their vessels empty;
they are ashamed and confounded
and cover their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:4 - And the vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:11 - and shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it can never be mended. Men shall bury in Topheth because there will be no place else to bury.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 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. And I will bring them together into the midst of this city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:7 - I will prepare destroyers against you,
each with his weapons,
and they shall cut down your choicest cedars
and cast them into the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:28 - Is this man Coniah a despised, broken pot,
a vessel no one cares for?
Why are he and his children hurled and cast
into a land that they do not know?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 - “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out,
and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,
for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,
and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 - Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says the LORD: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the LORD’s house will now shortly be brought back from Babylon,’ for it is a lie that they are prophesying to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:18 - If they are prophets, and if the word of the LORD is with them, then let them intercede with the LORD of hosts, that the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:19 - For thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:21 - thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:3 - Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:6 - and the prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen! May the LORD do so; may the LORD make the words that you have prophesied come true, and bring back to this place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:14 - ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed, and put them in an earthenware vessel, that they may last for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 40:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:10 - As for me, I will dwell at Mizpah, to represent you before the Chaldeans who will come to us. But as for you, gather wine and summer fruits and oil, and store them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that you have taken.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:19 - Prepare yourselves baggage for exile,
O inhabitants of Egypt!
For Memphis shall become a waste,
a ruin, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:11 - “Moab has been at ease from his youth
and has settled on his dregs;
he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel,
nor has he gone into exile;
so his taste remains in him,
and his scent is not changed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:12 - “Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his[fn] jars in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:29 - Their tents and their flocks shall be taken,
their curtains and all their goods;
their camels shall be led away from them,
and men shall cry to them: ‘Terror on every side!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:25 - The LORD has opened his armory
and brought out the weapons of his wrath,
for the Lord GOD of hosts has a work to do
in the land of the Chaldeans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:20 - “You are my hammer and weapon of war:
with you I break nations in pieces;
with you I destroy kingdoms;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:34 - “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me;
he has crushed me;
he has made me an empty vessel;
he has swallowed me like a monster;
he has filled his stomach with my delicacies;
he has rinsed me out.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:18 - And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20 - As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea,[fn] and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.
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