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Jeremiah 13:2
So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord and put it on my loins, wearing it for some time.
So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord and put it on my loins, wearing it for some time.
CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
THE SYMBOL OF THE WAIST-CLOTH, its removal signifying the rejection and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as a...
GOT. bought....
Jeremiah 13:1-11. The acted symbol of the linen girdle This ch. consists of five sections, quite independent of one another. The first two are in poetic prose, and the remaining in Ḳinah metre. Three...
VI. THE PRIDE OF THE NATION Jeremiah 13:1-27 Arrogant, willful, stubborn pride was at the root of all Judah's sins. In chapter thirteen Jeremiah issues five stern warnings concerning pride and its con...
_SO I GOT A GIRDLE ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND PUT IT ON MY LOINS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
וָ אֶקְנֶ֥ה אֶת ־הָ אֵזֹ֖ור כִּ דְבַ֣ר
CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto me," witho...
20-25, THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE Jeremiah 13:1-11 This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some such striking symbol before them the attention _of the people_ must have been pow...
The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
Jeremiah spared no pains, and thought nothing of his trouble to follow up the Lord's commissions. Euphrates was no small distance from Jerusalem: but yet we find thither the Prophet went both to carry...
Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart, announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
SO I GOT A GIRDLE,.... Or, bought n a linen one, as directed: ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD; his express order and command; the prophet was not disobedient to the heavenly vision: AND I PUT IT O...
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put [it] on my loins. Ver. 2. _So I got a girdle._] God is to be obeyed readily, and without questioning....
_Thus saith the Lord unto me_ The prophet here begins a new discourse. _Go and get thee a girdle_, &c. “God explains, at Jeremiah 13:11, what was meant by the symbol of the girdle, or sash, worn about...
1-11 It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs. And we have the explanation, ver. Jeremiah 13:9. The people of Israel had been to God as this girdle. He caused them to cleave to him by the law...
ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD; that is, according to God's command. AND PUT IT ON MY LOINS; and used it as God commanded me, never disputing the reason why God bid me do such a thing....
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THE ACTED OUT PROPHECY OF THE LINEN GIRDLE (JEREMIAH 13:1). YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is initially to...
CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with wine. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make themselves vessels of wrath fi...
Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
_Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing._ THE CAST-OFF GIRDLE In many instances...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:2 God orders Jeremiah to place underclothing in a rocky place. Of course, it gets ruined by the weather. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, Hend.,...
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
Ezekiel 2:8; Hosea 1:2; Hosea 1:3; Isaiah 20:2; John 13:6;...