Jeremiah 38:22

Hebrew Bible

20 Then Jeremiah answered, “You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the Lord by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you, and your life will be spared. 21 But if you refuse to surrender, the Lord has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw: 22 All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying: “‘Your trusted friends misled you; they have gotten the best of you. Now that your feet are stuck in the mud, they have turned their backs on you. 23 “All your wives and your children will be turned over to the Babylonians. You yourself will not escape from them but will be captured by the king of Babylon. This city will be burned down.” 24 Then Zedekiah told Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about the conversation we have had. If you do, you will die.

Obadiah 1:7

Hebrew Bible

5 “If thieves came to rob you during the night, they would steal only as much as they wanted. If grape pickers came to harvest your vineyards, they would leave some behind for the poor. But you will be totally destroyed! 6 How the people of Esau will be thoroughly plundered! Their hidden valuables will be ransacked! 7 All your allies will force you from your homeland! Your treaty partners will deceive you and overpower you. Your trusted friends will set an ambush for you that will take you by surprise! 8 “At that time,” the Lord says,“I will destroy the wise sages of Edom, the advisers from Esau’s mountain. 9 Your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone will be destroyed from Esau’s mountain!

 Notes and References

"... Here “peace” clearly refers to neither the rejection of force nor any sort of compromise, but to the military success of David’s forces - without which his personal well-being, in light of Saul’s unremitting enmity, is impossible. Similarly, the idiom “men of peace,” which appears a handful of times in the Bible, refers everywhere to allies in combat, and never to the modern sense of someone dedicated to brokered nonviolent conflict resolution ... The term appears five times in the Bible, and its use is always ironic: “Your allies [anshei shlomecha] have turned you and defeated you” (Jeremiah 38:22); “Your allies [anshei shlomecha] have deceived you and defeated you” (Obadiah 1:7); “Even my allies [ish shlomi] whom I relied upon, who ate of my bread, have lifted their heels upon me” (Psalms 41:10—attributed to David); “He has sent his hand against his allies [shlomav], he has broken his covenant” (Psalms 55:21—also attributed to David); “‘Denounce, and we will denounce [God],’ say my allies [kol enosh shlomi] who await my stumbling” (Jeremiah 20:10) ..."

Hazony, David Plowshares Into Swords: The Lost Biblical Ideal of Peace (pp. 90-119) Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation, 1998

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