Jeremiah 49:28-33--Judgment on Kedar and Hazor

Jeremiah 49:28-33
English Standard Version

Judgment on Kedar and Hazor
28 Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck down.

Thus says the LORD:
“Rise up, advance against Kedar!
    Destroy the people of the east!
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!’
30 Flee, wander far away, dwell in the depths,
    O inhabitants of Hazor!
declares the LORD.
For Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
    has made a plan against you
    and formed a purpose against you.

31 “Rise up, advance against a nation at ease,
    that dwells securely,
declares the LORD,
that has no gates or bars,
    that dwells alone.
32 Their camels shall become plunder,
    their herds of livestock a spoil.
I will scatter to every wind
    those who cut the corners of their hair,
and I will bring their calamity
    from every side of them,
declares the LORD.
33 Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals,
    an everlasting waste;
no man shall dwell there;
    no man shall sojourn in her.”

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These are Canaanite city-states in the northern part of Israel that were never totally defeated by the armies of Israel.  They are in the land promised to Naphtali in the region of Israel where Jesus would later minister (near the Sea of Galilee).  You can see Haxor marked in the land of Naphtali on this map:  Tribal Allotments Of Israel | IBible Maps.

The LORD is going to us Nebuchadnezzar to finish the job that the people of Israel never finished on their own.  The Babylonians will wipe out the Canaanites and the other peoples that were to be dispossessed of the Land that was to belong as an eternal inheritance to the Jewish people.  These Canaanite peoples would lose all their wealth and possessions and their people would run for their lives. 

These peoples had been at peace for so long they no longer had gates or bars for security.  They had no defenses against an invasion, because they were living in ease and comfort and never imagined that anyone would attack them.  The LORD said he would make their once great city-state into a haunt for the jackals--an everlasting wasteland.  No one will live there and no one will even travel through there or come to visit.  It will be destroyed and will never return.