“Raise
the signal to go to Zion!
Flee
for safety without delay!
For I am bringing disaster from the north,
even terrible destruction.” Jeremiah 4:6
For I am bringing disaster from the north,
even terrible destruction.” Jeremiah 4:6
Later in this
book, Jeremiah will name that nation directly.
I
will summon all the peoples of the north
and my servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,”
declares the Lord,
“and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and against all
the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy them and make them an object
of horror and scorn, and an everlasting ruin.
Jeremiah 25:9
Babylon
defeated the nation of Assyria during the Battle of Nineveh in 612 BC. Nobody thought such a powerhouse like Assyria
would ever fall, but it did and Nebuchadnezzar took over from 605 to 562 BC. His army sieged Jerusalem in 597 BC and again
in 587 BC. Jeremiah’s prophecy directly
point to these invasions of Babylon (now modern day Iraq to the north of
Israel).