The Bible has some wily characters, but the chief of the bunch
might just be our old friend Jeremiah.
He is tenacious, witty, and quick with a
comeback. He was frustrated with a weak and waffling disobedient king, who
simply would not heed the clearest warnings that he needed to surrender to the enemy
in order to save the temple, the city, and the nation. So to get his point across,
he came up with this line to stress the inevitability of defeat.
"Even
if you were to destroy the entire Babylonian army, leaving only a handful of
wounded survivors, they would still stagger from their tents and burn this city to the
ground!" Jer. 37:10 NLT
There are tons more of these.
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