JEREMIAH CHAPTER 27 The prophet sendeth yokes to five neighbour kings, thereby foreshowing their subjection to Nebuchadnezzar, JEREMIAH 27:1. he exhorteth them to yield, and not to believe false prophets, Jeremiah 27:8. The like he doth to Zedekiah, Jeremiah 27:12. The remnant of the vessels shall b... [ Continue Reading ]
God commandeth the prophet to procure, either by his own labour, or with his money, some yokes, with bonds to make them more fast; and to put some one of them upon his own neck, that therein he might be a type both to his own people, and also the people afterward mentioned, that they should be in bo... [ Continue Reading ]
It was and is the custom of neighbour princes, to send ambassadors into each other's countries to reside there, and maintain correspondence on the behalf of their masters. These nations were neighbours to the Jews, and their princes had their ambassadors resident at Jerusalem. Jeremiah is directed t... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF HOSTS, who hath therefore a power over all the creatures; who though he be in a special sense THE GOD OF ISRAEL, yet his dominion is extended to your masters countries, as well as unto Israel.... [ Continue Reading ]
To evince to them that his dominion extendeth to them, he mindeth them that he was the first efficient cause of all the creatures, and made both all men and all beasts that are upon the earth, and therefore had a special propriety in them, and a universal power over them, it being in his power to di... [ Continue Reading ]
By the former words God gave the prophet authority to assert his dominion, and right to dispose of all creatures; by these he authorizeth him to reveal his will, concerning the disposal of the lands of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, and Zidon, viz. that he had disposed of them to NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING O... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL NATIONS SHALL SERVE HIM; that is, all these nations; and some think that it is expressed in the article used here demonstratively, though not so taken notice of by our translators. _And his son, and his son's son_; and Evil-merodach his son, who succeeded him, JEREMIAH 52:31, and Belshazzar his... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, that will not, upon Nebuchadnezzar's coming against them, freely submit to his power, and yield themselves to his subjection. I will humble them by my sore judgments of _sword, pestilence_, and _famine_, and make them yield; and they shall not avoid what through their stubbornness they stud... [ Continue Reading ]
It is uncertain whether these words were part of the message which Jeremiah by command from God sent to the kings above mentioned, or the prophet's words to the Jews; for as those pagan nations had DIVINERS, DREAMERS, ENCHANTERS, AND SORCERERS, so the Jews had them also, ISAIAH 47:12,13: the meaning... [ Continue Reading ]
Let them come by their pretended knowledge which way they will, what they say is false; and the issue of your belief of what they say will be nothing but your carrying into captivity out of your own country, and your ruin and destruction.... [ Continue Reading ]
Those that upon the first summons, or without making any hostile opposition, shall yield themselves servants to the king of Babylon, they shall remain still, and be left in the land to till the ground, and shall dwell therein. It is the time when God is resolved to put an end to the kingdom of Judah... [ Continue Reading ]
Some think this was at another time, but it is most probable it was the same time.... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, Why wilt thou wilfully not only ruin thyself, but thy innocent people, by the sword, the famine, and the pestilence? The word is spoken by the Lord, that all nations who will not willingly yield to the king of Babylon shall be thus destroyed.... [ Continue Reading ]
We shall find throughout all the Jewish story that wicked princes never wanted false prophets, ecclesiastical ministers who would entitle God to what they spake in humour to their governors. Such ministers they would have, and usually they proved fatal to them: so did Ahab's prophets, that encourage... [ Continue Reading ]
They make use of my name, and pretend to say what they say by commission from me, saith the Lord; but there is no such thing, I never gave them authority to speak any such things. And though possibly they do not design your ruin by these practices, for none can be thought to design their own ruin, y... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet, like God's faithful servant, spared none, but faithfully gave warning to all sorts, to take heed of the false prophets that undertook to foretell that the vessels of the temple carried away in the time of Jehoiakim, and his son Jehoiachin or Jeconiah, of which we read 2 CHRONICLES 36:7,... [ Continue Reading ]
Believe them not, but satisfy yourselves as to God's providence with respect to you, and be content to be subject to the king of Babylon, so may you have your lives for a prey; though you be straitened as to your accommodations and plenteous and splendid way of life: if you do not, your city will ce... [ Continue Reading ]
If they be true prophets, End have any communion with God, instead of foretelling the bringing back of the vessels carried away, let them apply themselves to hinder the carrying away of what vessels yet remain, and that either in the house of the Lord, or the king's house, or in Jerusalem; which is... [ Continue Reading ]
These were all parts of the temple, or vessels used in it. See 1KI 7.... [ Continue Reading ]
Concerning the persons and things which the king of Babylon then carried away, see 2 KINGS 24:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet enlargeth his prophetical threatening, and makes it extend to all other vessels of price, in the houses of the king, the nobles, or more wealthy citizens.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY SHALL BE CARRIED TO BABYLON, AND THERE SHALL THEY BE: see the fulfilling of this prophecy, 2 KINGS 25:13,2 CHRONICLES 36:18; and that they abode in Babylon till the end of the captivity, appeareth from DANIEL 5:2, where we read of Belshazzar's sending for them to drink wine in at his fatal feas... [ Continue Reading ]