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Verse Jeremiah 1:16. _I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS_] God denounced his
judgments: the conquest of their cities, and the destruction of the
realm, were the facts to which these judgments referred; and the...
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In accordance with the custom of law courts, the crimes of the guilty
city are mentioned in the sentence. The charges brought against her
are three: first, the desertion of the true God; next, the off...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE
JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED
CHAPTER 1
The Call of the Prophet
_ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _
2. The divin...
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THE TWO VISIONS OF JUDGMENT. These form a separate experience, and
imply some change of standpoint, since it is now the judgment of Judah
through the instrumentality of the nations which is presented...
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THEM: i.e. the people of Judah.
WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44.
FORSAKEN ME. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:20). App-92.
BURNED INCENSE. Hebrew. _katar._ See App-43. This includes the...
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Jeremiah's call
The passage will fall into four sections.
(i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah
1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful
to p...
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_I will utter my judgements against them_ lit., I WILL SPEAK MY
JUDGEMENTS WITH THEM. An almost identical phrase in the Hebrew occurs
again in this book, when Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah "gave judgement...
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The symbol of the caldron
13. _a seething caldron_ An ordinary sight in daily life conveys a
message to the prophet. In this second symbol the character of the
future in store for the nation is more c...
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In 2 Chronicles 6:41-42 the words of the Psalm are quoted at the close
of Solomon's prayer at the Dedication of the Temple, and some
commentators suppose that in Psalms 132:8 ff. the Psalmist carries...
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II. THE CALL CONFIRMED Jeremiah 1:11-19
TRANSLATION
(11) And the word of the LORD came unto me saying, What are you
looking at, Jeremiah? And I replied, I am looking at a rod of almond.
(12) Then the...
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And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their
wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other
gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
UTTER - pronoun...
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THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY
1-3. See Introduction....
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I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS AGAINST THEM. — Here, again, we get a
literal correspondence in the words of Jeremiah 39:5, “he gave [or
uttered] judgment upon him,” of Nebuchadnezzar’s sentence on
Zedekiah...
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וְ דִבַּרְתִּ֤י מִשְׁפָּטַי֙ אֹותָ֔ם
עַ֖ל כָּל...
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CHAPTER I
THE CALL AND CONSECRATION
IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the
life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more
detailed study of his writin...
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COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER
Jeremiah 1:1-19
God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to
discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...
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The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and
giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry.
The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...
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And I will utter my (p) judgments against them concerning all their
wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other
gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.
(p) I will gi...
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The Lord was pleased, we find, both by word and by vision, to confirm
the Prophet in his new appointment. And the Lord which raised up to
the Prophet's mind these images, took care to instruct his min...
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God now assigns the reason why he had resolved to deal so severely
with the Jews. It was necessary to teach them two things, — first,
that the Chaldeans would not of themselves come upon them, but thr...
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In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had
been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry
His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...
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AND I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS AGAINST THEM,.... Not against the
kingdoms of the north, but against the people of the Jews. The sense
is, that God would enter into judgment with this people, and pass
s...
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_For lo, I will call_ Or, _I am upon calling_, or, _about to call; all
the families of the kingdoms of the north_ By these seem to be meant
the different nations who were subject to Nabopolassar and
N...
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And I will utter My judgments against them, the wicked inhabitants of
the land, TOUCHING ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS, pronouncing their
condemnation and doom, WHO HAVE FORSAKEN ME AND HAVE BURNED INCENSE
UNT...
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THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
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11-19 God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and
Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond-tree, which is more forward in
the spring than any other, represented the speedy approach of
judg...
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I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS; cause sentence to be passed according to my
threatening. See JEREMIAH 39:5. Or, I will place my bounty and their
unworthiness before them. Or, I will upbraid them with their...
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Jeremiah 1:16 utter H1696 (H8765) judgments H4941 concerning H5921
wickedness H7451 forsaken H5800 (H8804) incense H69
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YHWH GIVES JEREMIAH TWO SIGNS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE CERTAINTY OF
YHWH'S WATCHFULNESS OVER HIS PURPOSES, AND THE SECOND A SIGN WHICH
DEMONSTRATED THE JUDGMENTS THAT WERE TO COME FROM THE NORTH BECAUSE...
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THE SIGN OF THE BOILING CAULDRON (JEREMIAH 1:13).
The second sign was that of a cauldron full of boiling liquid ready to
be poured out on Judah from the north, a vivid picture of threatening
judgment...
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Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests
that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the
LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod
and seething pot.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim.
CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...
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Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the
creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature,
whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...
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_I see a rod of an almond tree._
TREE EMBLEMS
The Hebrew word for almond signifies the “waker,” in allusion to
its being the first tree to wake to life in the winter. The word also
contains the signi...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce
the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s
call and message (vv....
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:16 God will use the invaders (v.
Jeremiah 1:15) as his agents of JUDGMENTS AGAINST Judah, for all their
evil in fors
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4,
_sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would
make the date of the “thirteen...
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EXPOSITION
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC
OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...
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At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah.
About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I
feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...
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2 Chronicles 15:2; 2 Chronicles 34:25; 2 Chronicles 7:19; 2 Kings
22:17;...