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Verse Jeremiah 46:23. _THEY SHALL CUT DOWN HER FOREST_] Supposed to
mean her cities, of which Egypt had no fewer than _one thousand_ and
_twenty_....
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Or, “They have cut down her forest, saith Yahweh, for it is
impenetrable,” i. e., just as a pathless forest must be cleared to
assist agriculture and the passage to and fro of men, so must the
false w...
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IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS
CHAPTER 46
Concerning Egypt
_ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _
2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13)
3. A messa...
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JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal
division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5;
Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...
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SEARCHED. reconnoitred.
GRASSHOPPERS. locusts....
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Oracles against foreign nations
Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's
_Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that
the whole or a considerable part of the...
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See introd. note to the ch. and summary. Gi. rejects as later all that
follows Jeremiah 46:12 as involving repetitions, looseness of
structure, and vagueness in style, criticisms which (see note on
Je...
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_though_ better, as mg. _for_.
_they are more_ i.e. the enemy.
_the locusts_ See on Joel 1:4, C.B. (Driver)....
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II. THE SECOND ORACLE CONCERNING EGYPT Jeremiah 46:13-26
The second poem concerning Egypt points to an invasion of that land by
Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 46:13). It is impossible to ascertain the
date...
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B. The Consequences of Invasion Jeremiah 46:20-26
TRANSLATION
(20) A very beautiful heifer is Egypt. A gadfly from the north has
come against her. (21) Also her hirelings in the midst of her are like...
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They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are
innumerable.
THEY SHALL CUT DOWN HER FOREST - (, "He shall cut do...
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HER FOREST] her beauty: cp. Jeremiah 21:14.
GRASSHOPPERS] RV 'locusts.'...
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AGAINST EGYPT
1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
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כָּרְת֤וּ יַעְרָהּ֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה
כִּ֖י לֹ֣א...
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CHAPTER XVII
EGYPT
Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1
"I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and
their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....
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The third and last section of the division containing the account of
the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the
nations.
The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...
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They shall cut down (u) her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot
be searched; because they are more than the
(x) grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.
(u) That is, they will slay the great and mi...
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_Above, or "more than locusts," (Haydock) which destroy all herbs
where they light._...
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If the Reader will compare scripture with scripture, which is always
the most profitable way of reading the word of God; he will find, that
what Jeremiah is here engaged in, Isaiah had been before him...
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He goes on here with the same subject. He indeed uses the past tense,
but we know that this was commonly done by the Prophets. He compares
the people of Egypt to a forest, as he had said that individu...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51.
Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already
mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies
against t...
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THEY SHALL CUT DOWN HER FOREST, SAITH THE LORD,.... The land of Egypt,
compared to a forest, for the multitude of its cities and towns, and
the inhabitants of them; which should be destroyed by the Ch...
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They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be
searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are]
innumerable.
Ver. 23. _They shall cut down her forest,_] _i.e., _...
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_The voice thereof shall go like a serpent_ “That is, her (Egypt's)
voice shall be low and inarticulate through fear. This passage seems
to be an imitation of Isaiah 29:4, where we find the same threa...
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THE SECOND PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
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They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be
searched, it was impossible to estimate the number of the enemy;
BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE THAN THE GRASSHOPPERS, whose swarms contain
c...
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13-28 Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves
encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to
the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the...
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Egypt is compared to a forest, either for the multitude of cities or
of people in that country; and to a thick forest, because as it is a
hard thing to make one's way through a forest, so it was judge...
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Jeremiah 46:23 down H3772 (H8804) forest H3293 says H5002 (H8803) LORD
H3068 searched H2713 (H8735) innumerable
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B). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S LATER PENETRATION INTO EGYPT
WHICH WILL NOT HOWEVER BE TERMINAL (JEREMIAH 46:13).
This prophecy here has in mind a much later excursion of
Nebuchadrezzar against...
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CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar.
CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on
unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...
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Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to
have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the
Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint.
Jeremiah 4...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations.
Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations
(Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE
CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of
Charchemish. This se...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies
united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to
supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...
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Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28.
Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of
the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of
miscellaneous prophec...
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Tho' — Tho' it seem impenetrable....