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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Jeremiah 21:14

Doings. Hebrew, "studies." So "Your studious pursuits" occurs, ver. 12, in many Hebrew manuscripts, though the printed copy have, "their;" and "spoiled" for apprised. (Kennicott) --- Forest, the temple, which is called Libanus, (Zacharias xi. 21.) and the houses built of cedar-wood, (4 Kings xxv. 9.; Calmet) particularly the royal palace of the forest, 3 Kings vii. (Haydock)

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See also Jeremiah 21:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 21:14. _I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE FOREST THEREOF_] I will send destruction into its _centre_, that shall spread to every part of the _circumference_, and so consume the whole. The b...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE FOREST - This suggested to the Jew the idea of everything grand and stately....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    KINDLE. FIRE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:22). App-92. THE FOREST THEREOF. her forest. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the timber from Lebanon used in the bu...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note to section. The fragment is a very obscure one. It may be connected with Jeremiah 22:8 f. It was evidently held by the compiler who placed it here to refer to Jerusalem. But that city...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. _The alternatives for the royal house_ (Jeremiah 21:11-14) TRANSLATION (11) And to the house of the king of Judah: Hear the word of the LORD! O house of David, thus says the LORD: Judge with justi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    11-14. Exhortation and warning to the royal house....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE FOREST THEREOF. — The “forest” thus referred to may be either literally the woods, then covering a larger surface than in later times, at Kirjath-jearim (Psalms 132:6; 1 Sa...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ פָקַדְתִּ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם כִּ פְרִ֥י מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The final series before the fall of Jerusalem consists of messages delivered to Zedekiah (21-27). The occasion of these was, in the first place, Zedekiah's deputation to the prophet. The scourge which...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT I WILL PUNISH YOU ACCORDING TO THE FRUIT OF YOUR DOINGS, SAITH THE LORD,.... The situation of their city, and the strength of its fortifications, however sufficient they might be thought to keep...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain_ A description of Jerusalem, which was built in part upon the rocky mountain of Zion, but a great part of it was in the va...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PUNISH: _ Heb._ visit upon...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-14 The wickedness of the king and his family was the worse because of their relation to David. They were urged to act with justice, at once, lest the Lord's anger should be unquenchable. If God be...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL PUNISH YOU; in the Hebrew it is, _I will visit upon you_. God's visitations are either of _mercy_, PSALMS 80:14, PSALMS 106:4, or of _judgment_; therefore the sense is here rightly given by our...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 21:14 punish H6485 (H8804) fruit H6529 doings H4611 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 kindle H3341 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A GENERAL PLEA TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID NOT TO BE PRESUMPTIOUS BUT TO EXERCISE JUSTICE AND MERCY IF THEY WOULD ESCAPE JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 21:11). Jeremiah now makes a general plea to ‘the house of David'...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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