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THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT
OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17)
CHAPTER 16
_ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _
2. The coming days of...
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JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR
SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming
sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
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WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis,_ App-6. Reference to
Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 29:24; Deuteronomy 29:25). Compare Jeremiah
5:19.
EVIL. mischief, or calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44
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Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness
of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well
as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
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Cp. Jeremiah 5:19; Jeremiah 13:22....
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See introd. summary to section....
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B. Instructions for the Prophet Jeremiah 16:10-13
TRANSLATION
(10) And it shall come to pass when you declare to this people all
these things that they will say unto you: For what reason does the
LOR...
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And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these
words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity?...
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1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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WHAT IS OUR INIQUITY?... — Now, as before (Jeremiah 5:19), the
threatenings of judgment are met with words of real or affected
wonder. “What have we done to call for all this? In what are we
worse tha...
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וְ הָיָ֗ה כִּ֤י תַגִּיד֙ לָ † עָ֣ם...
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The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the
prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism,
commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to
say, h...
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And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these
words, and they shall say to thee, Why hath the LORD pronounced all
this great evil against us? or what [is] (e) our iniquity? or...
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There is a wonderful degree of condescension, implied on the part of
God in what is here said. Where there is an enquiry seriously set up
in the soul, concerning the ways and works of God, in his visi...
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He shews here what we have seen elsewhere, — that the people
flattered themselves in their vices, so that they could not be turned
by any admonitions, nor be led by any means to _repentance. _It was a...
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In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family
relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of
interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely
br...
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AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THOU SHALT SHOW THIS PEOPLE ALL THESE
WORDS,.... Or, "all these things" a; which he was forbid to do; as
marrying and having children, going into the house of mourning...
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And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these
words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what [is] our iniquity?...
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10-13 Here seems to be the language of those who quarrel at the word
of God, and instead of humbling and condemning themselves, justify
themselves, as though God did them wrong. A plain and full answ...
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WHEN THOU SHALT SHOW THIS PEOPLE ALL THESE WORDS, or all these things;
when thou shalt be observed by this people to refuse marriage, and to
go to the houses of mourners, according to the custom, to e...
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Jeremiah 16:10 show H5046 (H8686) people H5971 words H1697 say H559
(H8804) LORD H3068 pronounced H1696 ...
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WHAT JEREMIAH IS TO ANSWER ONCE HE HAS GIVEN HIS EXPLANATION AS TO WHY
HE IS ABSTAINING FROM MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, FROM ALL FORMS OF
MOURNING, AND FROM ALL CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:10).
Wit...
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JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND
FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION
THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS
IN...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming
calamities.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the
backslider in heart with his...
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Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The
prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it
respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter
s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows
that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of
Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses
the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
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Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21.
Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called
him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16:
The word of the LORD came also unto me...
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1 Kings 9:8; 1 Kings 9:9; Deuteronomy 29:24; Deuteronomy 29:25; Ho