Jeremiah 13:4

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Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.

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Jerusalem was Judah’s covenant center, while the Negeb was its dry southern region; the Euphrates lay far to the northeast in Mesopotamia. Jeremiah’s journey to hide the linen belt by the Euphrates dramatized Judah’s removal from its proper attachment to the Lord and its coming ruin through foreign powers.

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Jeremiah 13:4 mentions Euphrates, Jerusalem and Negeb.

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