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GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS - literally, everyone has gained gains. The
temper of mind which gains the world is not that which gains heaven.
FALSELY - Rather, “fraudulently.”...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
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THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of
Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a
grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his
wo...
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COVETOUSNESS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 18:21). App-92....
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See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again.
Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited
the Northern tribes, but many times....
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These verses are almost identical with ch. Jeremiah 8:10-12, where
they are probably a later insertion....
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_from the least of them even unto the greatest_ Cp. Jeremiah 5:5....
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3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15)
TRANSLATION
(9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine
the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...
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For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one
is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest
every one dealeth falsely.
(; , "Greedy dogs which can never...
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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IS GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS. — Literally, _gained gain._ The Hebrew
word (as in Genesis 37:26; Job 22:2) does not necessarily involve the
idea of dishonest gain, though this (as in Proverbs 1:19;...
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כִּ֤י מִ קְּטַנָּם֙ וְ עַד
־גְּדֹולָ֔ם כֻּלֹּ
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would under
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This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
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_Prophet. Septuagint, "false prophet," chap. iv. 31. (Haydock)_...
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All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of
the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on
them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...
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The Prophet now again declares, that it was nothing strange that God
resolved to deal with so much severity with that people, and to
execute on them extreme vengeance; for no part was whole and sound,...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto th...
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FOR FROM THE LEAST OF THEM EVEN UNTO THE GREATEST OF THEM,.... From
the least in age to the oldest among them; or rather, from persons of
the lowest class of life, and in the meanest circumstances, to...
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_For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one
[is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest
every one dealeth falsely._
Ver. 13. _Every one is given to...
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_For, from the least of them_, &c. Old and young, rich and poor, high
and low, those of all ranks, professions, and employments; _every one
is given to covetousness_ Greedy of filthy lucre; and this m...
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9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or
rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and
wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin b...
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FROM THE LEAST OF THEM; not respecting so much their age as degree and
quality, poor and rich; the prophet notes the generality of their
corruption as the reason of God's severity against them, as JER...
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Jeremiah 6:13 least H6996 greatest H1419 given H1214 (H8802)
covetousness H1215 prophet H5030 priest H3548 deals H6213
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JEREMIAH IS CALLED ONCE MORE TO SIFT JERUSALEM FOR RIGHTEOUS MEN AND
HIS RESPONSE DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS DESPAIRING OF EVER FINDING ONE AS
HE SUMS UP THEIR FALLEN STATE AND CALLS ON YHWH TO FULFIL HI...
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IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES
THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1).
Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had
given the reas...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
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Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:13 Greed always leads to seeking UNJUST
GAIN. PROPHET... PRIEST. These religious leaders are as greedy as the
people. Thus, they promise PEACE rather
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
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EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
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1 Timothy 3:3; 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:3; Ezekiel 22:12;
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Falsely — Heb. doing falsehood, as if that were their whole work,
the proper sin of the priests and prophets, to deceive the people, and
to flatter them by false visions....