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“Behold,” I give unto “this people” causes of stumbling,
And they shall stumble against them:
Fathers and sons together,
“The neighbor and his friend shall perish.”
This is the natural consequence...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
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Jeremiah 6:16. OBEDIENCE MORE THAN SACRIFICE. Yahweh vainly bade the
people stand at the parting of the ways (Hebrew, by the ways), and
seek the ancient road to prosperity, that they may find repose f...
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TOWER. watchtower; or, an assayer.
TRY. assay (as an assayer of metals).
WAY. Some codices read "heart"....
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The third division. See introd. note to the ch....
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_stumblingblocks_ The enemy shall trip them up in their easygoing
ways. Cp. Jeremiah 6:15....
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4. _Prescription for deliverance_ (Jeremiah 6:16-21)
TRANSLATION
(16) Thus said the LORD: Stand along side the ways and observe. Ask
for the old ways where the good way is and walk in it and you will...
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Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks
before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall
upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.
STUMBLIN...
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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STUMBLINGBLOCKS, etc.] the enemy's invasion, which would, as it were,
trip them up in their easy-going ways.
22-24. The approaching invader. These vv. are repeated with necessary
changes in Jeremiah...
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AND THE FATHERS AND THE SONS TOGETHER... — Better, _I give unto this
people stumbling blocks, and they shall stumble over them: fathers and
sons together, neighbour and his friend, shall perish.
_...
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לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנְנִ֥י
נֹתֵ֛ן א
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would under
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This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
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In what strong terms doth the Lord set forth the folly of outward
things, as the incense and the cane, when there was no inward offering
of the heart. What are all acts of religion, when there is no
r...
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Here God, in plain words, declares what vengeance he would execute on
the people. He says first, that he would _lay for them stumbling
blocks _He no doubt compares the judgments which were nigh to net...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto th...
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THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... Because of their immorality and
hypocrisy, their contempt of his word, and confidence in legal rites
and ceremonies:
BEHOLD, I WILL LAY STUMBLINGBLOCKS BEFORE THIS...
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_Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks
before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall
upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish._
Ver. 21....
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_Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people_ I will suffer
such things to be laid in their way as shall be the occasion of their
destruction. Or, I will bring calamities upon them, by whic...
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THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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Therefore, thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks
before this people, the devices of the enemies which would bring about
their ruin, AND THE FATHERS AND THE SONS TOGETHER, both being...
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18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for
their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator;
but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
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I WILL LAY STUMBLING-BLOCKS; God gives this name to all the occasions
of the Jews ruin; he exposeth them, or suffereth such things to be
laid in their way, as shall be the occasion of their destructio...
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Jeremiah 6:21 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 lay H5414 (H8802) blocks
H4383 people H5971 fathers H1 sons...
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YHWH NOW DESCRIBES THE TOTAL INTRANSIGENCE OF HIS PEOPLE AND DISMISSES
THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PACIFY HIM BY RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND OFFERINGS,
CONFIRMING TO THEM THE JUDGMENT THAT IS INEVITABLY COMING ON THEM...
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IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES
THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1).
Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had
given the reas...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
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Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
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EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
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I will say — I will suffer such things to be laid in their way, as
shall be the occasion of their destruction. The neighbour — Men of
all sorts and conditions....