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Verse Jeremiah 14:4. _THE GROUND IS CHAPT_] The cracks in the earth
before the descent of the rains are in some places a cubit wide, and
deep enough to receive the greater part of a human body....
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IS CHAPT - Rather, is dismayed. “The ground” is used
metaphorically for the people who until the ground.
IN THE EARTH - i. e., “in the land.”...
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II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE
PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF
JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING
CHAPTER 14
The Great Drought...
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JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S
CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but
some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
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CHAPT. cleft, cracked, open in slits. From Old Dutch, "koppen", to cut
off; "kappen", to cut, or chop (hence Eng. "chops", from Eng.
"chapped" and "chip"). Gk. _koptein,_ to cut. Hebrew here, _hathath...
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_Because of the ground, etc_.] rather, according to Du."s excellent
emendation, with a slight change in MT., virtually supported by LXX,
_The tillers of the ground are dismayed_. This enables us to re...
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CHAPTER TEN
NATIONAL DISTRESS AND PROPHETIC DISCOURAGEMENT
Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 17:27
Sometime during the ministry of Jeremiah a terrible drought or series
of droughts (the Hebrew word is plura...
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_BECAUSE THE GROUND IS CHAPT, FOR THERE WAS NO RAIN IN THE EARTH, THE
PLOWMEN WERE ASHAMED, THEY COVERED THEIR HEADS._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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1-6. Description of the drought....
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THE GROUND IS CHAPT. — The word is so vivid as describing the long
fissures of the soil in a time of drought that one admits with
reluctance that no such meaning is found in the Hebrew word, which
sim...
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בַּ עֲב֤וּר הָ אֲדָמָה֙ חַ֔תָּה כִּ֛י
לֹא
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CHAPTER IX
THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS
Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?)
VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these
Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
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We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the
account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections:
prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
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We have here an account of the famine, which by the parallel history
took place in the reign of Jehoiakim; probably just before the
captivity. Jeremiah had mourned for the good king Josiah; see 2
Chro...
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The Prophet had said, that though the whole common people were sent to
the waters, yet none would be found. He now adds the same firing
respecting the husbandmen. _Ashamed, _he says, _shall be the
hus...
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Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The
desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared.
But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
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BECAUSE THE GROUND IS CHAPT,.... Through the violent heat of the sun,
and want of rain; or, is broken y; and crumbles into dust. The Targum
is,
"because of sins, the inhabitants of the earth are brok...
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Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the
plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
Ver. 4. _Because the ground is chapt._] As our hearts also are and
will be, when t...
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_And their nobles_, &c. This scarcity of water afflicted not poor
persons only, who had not such means of supplying their necessities as
the rich; but the greatest among them, who sent _their little o...
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1-9 The people were in tears. But it was rather the cry of their
trouble, and of their sin, than of their prayer. Let us be thankful
for the mercy of water, that we may not be taught to value it by
f...
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The Hebrew word signifieth more largely than _chapt_, broken, spoiled,
turned into dust, as is usual in great droughts. The word also which
we translate _ploughmen_, doth not strictly signify ploughme...
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Jeremiah 14:4 ground H127 parched H2865 (H8804) rain H1653 land H776
plowmen H406 ashamed H954 (H8804) covered...
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THE LESSON OF THE GREAT DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1).
As a preliminary warning of what is coming YHWH sends a great drought
on Judah with the result that the cisterns are empty, the springs are
dry, the p...
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THE DEPTHS OF THE SERIES OF DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1).
The plural for ‘droughts' suggests that there had been a series of
droughts, probably over a number of years. Such droughts did occur in
Canaan fr...
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In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient
prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to
deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
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CONTENTS: Message on the drought.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make
even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
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Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied,
as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
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_They came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their
vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their
heads._
THE DROUGHT OF NATURE, THE RAIN OF GRACE, AND THE LESSO...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This
and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others
connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and
synchr...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They
describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see
verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth
(Jeremiah 14:1).
For a drought filled the land.
Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground;
and the cry of...
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Deuteronomy 28:23; Deuteronomy 28:24; Deuteronomy 29:23; Joel 1:11;...