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This verse limits the application of the symbol. Only the ungodly and
the idolatrous part of the people decayed at Babylon. The religious
portion was strengthened and invigorated by the exile Jeremiah...
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CHAPTER 13
Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations
_ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _
2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15)
3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
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THE SYMBOL OF THE WAIST-CLOTH, its removal signifying the rejection
and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet
buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as a...
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IMAGINATION. stubbornness....
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Jeremiah 13:1-11. The acted symbol of the linen girdle
This ch. consists of five sections, quite independent of one another.
The first two are in poetic prose, and the remaining in Ḳinah metre.
Three...
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See introd. summary to section....
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These _vv_. have been thought (so Co.) to contain, as they stand, two
explanations, mutually exclusive, of the symbol, Jeremiah 13:9 making
the marring to denote exile, but Jeremiah 13:10 Judah's diso...
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_stubbornness_ See ch. Jeremiah 3:17.
_shall even be_ Heb. _let it be_....
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VI. THE PRIDE OF THE NATION Jeremiah 13:1-27
Arrogant, willful, stubborn pride was at the root of all Judah's sins.
In chapter thirteen Jeremiah issues five stern warnings concerning
pride and its con...
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This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the
imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them,
and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is go...
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IMAGINATION] RV 'stubbornness.'
12-14. The symbol of the bottles. Under the figure of intoxication,
through which the people shall be helpless to resist the enemy's
attack, the prophet intimates God's...
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JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE
The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen'
(Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
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IMAGINATION. — Better, as before, _stubbornness._
SHALL EVEN BE AS THIS GIRDLE. — The same thought is reproduced in
the imagery of the potter’s vessel in Jeremiah 18:4. On the other
hand there is a pa...
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הָ עָם֩ הַ זֶּ֨ה הָ רָ֜ע הַֽ...
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CHAPTER VIII
THE FALL OF PRIDE
Jeremiah 13:1
THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated
by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah
unto me," witho...
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20-25, THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE
Jeremiah 13:1-11
This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some
such striking symbol before them the attention _of the people_ must
have been pow...
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The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah
ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself
and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
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The signs and types are doubly beautiful, and interesting, which God
the Holy Ghost himself explains. And here we have the Lord's own
illustration of it. Our whole nature was marred by sin; and when t...
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The Prophet said, according to what we observed yesterday, that the
people would be like the belt which he had hidden in a hole and found
putrified: but now the cause is expressed why God had resolved...
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Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart,
announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it
were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
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THIS EVIL PEOPLE, WHICH REFUSE TO HEAR MY WORDS,.... Sent by the
prophets, to whom they turned a deaf ear; and though they pressed
them, and importunately desired them to give them a hearing, they
ref...
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THE SYMBOL OF THE GIRDLE...
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This evil people, which refuse to hear My words, which walk in the
imagination of their heart, in deliberate stubbornness, AND WALK AFTER
OTHER GODS, TO SERVE THEM AND TO WORSHIP THEM, in that most
re...
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IMAGINATION:
Or, stubbornness...
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1-11 It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs. And we have
the explanation, ver. Jeremiah 13:9. The people of Israel had been to
God as this girdle. He caused them to cleave to him by the law...
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Hitherto the prophet had yielded a blind obedience to God, doing what
he commanded him, though he possibly knew no other reason for it but
because God bade him do so (which is a homage we owe unto God...
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Jeremiah 13:10 evil H7451 people H5971 refuse H3987 hear H8085 (H8800)
words H1697 follow H1980 (H8802) dictate
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THE ACTED OUT PROPHECY OF THE LINEN GIRDLE (JEREMIAH 13:1).
YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people
by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is initially to...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with
wine.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make
themselves vessels of wrath fi...
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Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the
Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it
became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
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_This evil people which refuse to hear My words._
REJECTERS OF GOD’S WORD
I. Sensational preaching: in what sense to be approved. The style of
this teaching of Jeremiah looks sensational. He is bidde...
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_Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the
place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was
profitable for nothing._
THE CAST-OFF GIRDLE
In many instances...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:8 The Judeans’ prideful, idolatrous
ways cling to them like an undergarment. Like Jeremiah’s garment,
this PRIDE will be ruined....
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as
determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler,
Hend.,...
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EXPOSITION
The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely
commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching
rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put
it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of
the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
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2 Chronicles 36:15; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Acts 7:51; Ecclesiastes 11:9;...