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Verse Jeremiah 20:16. _AND LET HIM HEAR THE CRY_] Let him be in
continual alarms....
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In the rest of the chapter we have an outbreak of deep emotion, of
which the first part ends in a cry of hope Jeremiah 20:13, followed
nevertheless by curses upon the day of his birth. Was this the re...
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CHAPTER 20
Pashur.-Jeremiah's Perplexity and Complaint
_ 1. Pashur and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:1) _
2. Jeremiah's great perplexity and complaint (Jeremiah 20:7)
Jeremiah 20:1. A great scene now
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THE PROPHET'S TROUBLES, HOPES, AND DARK DESPAIR. In passionate protest
against his lot (possibly occasioned by the incident just related)
Jeremiah complains that Yahweh has beguiled him into the work...
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AS THE CITIES, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 19:24).
CRY: of the besieged for help. Compare Exodus 32. shouting: of the
besiegers for victory Jeremiah 17:18....
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Jeremiah 20:7-18. The prophet bitterly complains to God of his lot
The passage opens to us the depths of the prophet's soul, and we see
him in intimate converse with God, and possessed now by the emo...
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See summary at commencement of section. Cp. Job 3:3-12. The latter
passage is even more vehement than this and also bears traces of
artificiality as compared with this natural and spontaneous outburst...
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_let that man, etc_.] Du. and Co. object to so much being made of the
messenger, and therefore consider that for "man" we should substitute,
or at any rate understand, "day" of the previous _v_. The m...
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LET HIM HEAR THE CRY.—AND THE SHOUTING— _An outcry—and the alarm
of war,_ &c. Houbigant reads, _Let him hear a cry in the morning, and
vociferations_ or _howlings at mid-day._...
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C. Curse Jeremiah 20:14-18
TRANSLATION
(14) Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother
bore me, let it not be blessed! (15) Cursed is the man who brought the
good news to my fa...
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Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my
mother bare me be blessed.
The contrast between the spirit of this passage and the preceding
thanksgiving to be explained thus: to s...
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1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....
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THE CRY.. THE SHOUTING] of war and trouble.
JEREMIAH'S ELEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). PROPHECIES
ILLUSTRATED FROM THE WORK OF THE POTTER
Jeremiah 18 gives and explains the figure of the pott...
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THE CITIES WHICH THE LORD OVERTHREW. — The verb is the same as that
used in Genesis 19:29, and the reference is clearly to the “cities
of the plain,” whose destruction is there described. The referenc...
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וְ הָיָה֙ הָ אִ֣ישׁ הַ ה֔וּא כֶּֽ
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CHAPTER XIII
JEREMIAH UNDER PERSECUTION
Jeremiah 20:1
THE prophet has now to endure something more than a scornful rejection
of his message. "And Pashchur ben Immer the priest" (he was chief
officer...
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The story of the persecution which this action stirred up against him
follows. Pashur heard the prophecy, and, smiting the prophet, arrested
and imprisoned him. On the following day Jeremiah, being br...
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And let that man be as the (i) cities which the LORD overthrew, and
repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the
shouting at noon;
(i) Alluding to the destruction of Sodom and Gomor...
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_Repented, is decree for the ruin of Sodom being fixed. --- Noon. This
is more extraordinary than at midnight. Let him always be terrified
with dismal sounds. (Calmet)_...
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So great a contrast there is between the last verse of the preceding
paragraph and the beginning of this, that I cannot but suppose the
Prophet is not speaking these things of himself. And I the rathe...
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And he adds, _Who with joy made him joyful _We see, as it is commonly
said, how he mingles heaven and earth; for had it been in his power,
when this frenzy possessed his mind, he would have certainly...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20.
Chapter s 19 and 20 shew us the judgment of Jerusalem announced in
terms that require little explanation; and we have in chapter 20 a
sample of the...
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AND LET THAT MAN BE AS THE CITIES WHICH THE LORD OVERTHREW,.... In his
fury, as the Targum and Septuagint add. Meaning the cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah, who were utterly destroyed, and were never reco...
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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and
repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the
shouting at noontide;
Ver. 16. _And let that man be._] A most bitter cur...
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_Cursed be the man_, &c. As in the forms of rejoicing upon a birth-day
they blessed every person and thing concerned in the birth, and said,
_Blessed be the womb that bare thee_, and the like, and he...
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The Prophet's Joy and Sorrow...
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Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A
man-child is born unto thee, making him very glad, for the birth of a
boy was a very happy event.
And let that man be as the cities which...
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14-18 When grace has the victory, it is good to be ashamed of our
folly, to admire the goodness of God, and be warned to guard our
spirits another time. See how strong the temptation was, over which...
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Jeremiah 20:16 man H376 cities H5892 LORD H3068 overthrew H2015
(H8804) relent H5162 (H8738) hear H8085 ...
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JEREMIAH CURSES THE DAY OF HIS BIRTH (JEREMIAH 20:14).
This passage closes off the section with a heart rending call by
Jeremiah that the day of his birth be cursed, along with all who
assisted in ens...
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REPENTED
(_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14)_. _...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first persecution. His complaint to God and
encouragement in God.
CHARACTERS: God, Pashur, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar.
CONCLUSION: Those who declare the whole counsel of God may ex...
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Jeremiah 20:3. _The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur,_ which
signifies security or increase; _but Magormissabib,_ a terror on every
side, or terrors of a captivity. Pashur believed the prophet, ye...
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_An my familiars watched for my halting._
PATHETIC EXPERIENCES
In these verses we have two distinct aspects of human experience.
Within this brief section Jeremiah is on the hill top and in the
deepe...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. With
chap. 20 the first section of this book closes. Probably this was
Jeremiah’s last public prophecy in Jehoiakim’s reign, and formed
the...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 20:1
The continuation of the preceding narrative. PASHUR THE SON OF
TRAINER. This man belonged to the sixteenth of the sacerdotal families
or classes (1 Chronicles 24:14). Another...
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Now Pashur (Jeremiah 20:1).
And the name means "prosperity all around."
Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in
the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah had prophesie...
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2 Peter 2:6; Amos 1:14; Amos 2:2; Amos 4:11; Deuteronomy 29:23;...
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The cities — Sodom and Gomorrah; by the cry in the morning and
shouting at noon, he means the shouts and noises that enemies make
when they break in upon a place....