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Jeremiah 1:14

Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth, out of a great and wide opening, upon all the inhabitants of the land. A boiling kettle is an Oriental symbol of a raging war, and since Babylon was regarded by the people of Judah as situated toward the north, it was clear that the Lord prophesied the Babylonian invasion.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 1:14. _SHALL BREAK FORTH_] תפתח _tippathach, shall be opened_. The door shall be thrown abroad, that these calamities may pass out freely....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    OUT OF THE NORTH ... - The caldron represents the great military empires upon the Euphrates. In Hezekiah’s time, Nineveh was at their head; but stormed by the armies of Cyaxares and Nabopalassar it is...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 1 The Call of the Prophet _ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _ 2. The divin...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TWO VISIONS OF JUDGMENT. These form a separate experience, and imply some change of standpoint, since it is now the judgment of Judah through the instrumentality of the nations which is presented...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AN EVIL. the calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. See note on Isaiah 45:7....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah's call The passage will fall into four sections. (i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah 1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful to p...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In 2 Chronicles 6:41-42 the words of the Psalm are quoted at the close of Solomon's prayer at the Dedication of the Temple, and some commentators suppose that in Psalms 132:8 ff. the Psalmist carries...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The symbol of the caldron 13. _a seething caldron_ An ordinary sight in daily life conveys a message to the prophet. In this second symbol the character of the future in store for the nation is more c...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _evil_ THE EVIL the evil which was to be expected, foretold by all the prophets as the result of national sin. _shall break forth_ SHALL BE OPENED, SHALL DISCLOSE ITSELF. But it is best by a slight c...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. THE CALL CONFIRMED Jeremiah 1:11-19 TRANSLATION (11) And the word of the LORD came unto me saying, What are you looking at, Jeremiah? And I replied, I am looking at a rod of almond. (12) Then the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. BREAK FORTH - `shall disclose itself.' OUT OF THE NORTH - (; ; ;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    OUT OF THE NORTH AN EVIL. — Literally, _the evil,_ long foretold, as in Micah 3:12, and elsewhere, and long expected....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י מִ צָּפֹון֙ תִּפָּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE CALL AND CONSECRATION IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more detailed study of his writin...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER Jeremiah 1:1-19 God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...

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

    The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry. The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then the LORD said to me, Out of the (o) north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. (o) Syria and Assyria were northward in respect to Jerusalem, which was the Chaldeans do...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _North. The tributary kings were forced to attend, Judith ii. 7., and 3 Kings xx. 1. --- About. The princes thus took Sedecias, and sent him to Reblatha, chap. xxxix. 3. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord was pleased, we find, both by word and by vision, to confirm the Prophet in his new appointment. And the Lord which raised up to the Prophet's mind these images, took care to instruct his min...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    And thus God testifies that the fire was already kindled in Chaldea and Assyria, which was not only to boil the Jews, but also reduce them to nothing. And then he expresses the same in other words — t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO ME,.... Explaining the above vision: OUT OF THE NORTH AN EVIL SHALL BREAK FORTH UPON ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND; that is, out of Babylon, which lay north, as Jarchi says,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. Ver. 14. _Out of the north an evil shall break forth,_] _i.e., _ From Chaldea, which is no...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHALL BREAK FORTH: _ Heb._ shall be opened...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-19 God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond-tree, which is more forward in the spring than any other, represented the speedy approach of judg...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD SAID; explained this vision. OUT OF THE NORTH, i.e. from Babylon, a metonymy of the subject; for though it lie eastward, yet it is north from Jerusalem, as lying four degrees more from the eq...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 1:14 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) north H6828 calamity H7451 forth H6605 (H8735) inhabitants H3427 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIGN OF THE BOILING CAULDRON (JEREMIAH 1:13). The second sign was that of a cauldron full of boiling liquid ready to be poured out on Judah from the north, a vivid picture of threatening judgment...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH GIVES JEREMIAH TWO SIGNS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE CERTAINTY OF YHWH'S WATCHFULNESS OVER HIS PURPOSES, AND THE SECOND A SIGN WHICH DEMONSTRATED THE JUDGMENTS THAT WERE TO COME FROM THE NORTH BECAUSE...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod and seething pot. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim. CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature, whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I see a rod of an almond tree._ TREE EMBLEMS The Hebrew word for almond signifies the “waker,” in allusion to its being the first tree to wake to life in the winter. The word also contains the signi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s call and message (vv....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:13 BOILING POT, FACING AWAY FROM THE NORTH. This vision means that judgment will come from the north. Eventually Babylon fulfills this threat....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4, _sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would make the date of the “thirteen...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah. About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 1:4; Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 31:8; Jeremiah 4:6

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    North — From Babylon....

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