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THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED - Worn out by continual blowing. The prophet
has exhausted all his efforts. His heart, consumed by the heat of
divine inspiration, can labor no more. Others translate “The bello...
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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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THE PROPHET'S TASK. The record of earlier prophecies (Jeremiah 6:1)
fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the
trier (_mg._) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy mixed w...
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FOUNDER MELTETH. refiner refineth....
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In these _vv_. the Lord reassures Jeremiah of his divine commission,
and he appears under the figure of one testing metal. The result of
the testing process is that no precious metal is found. All is...
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The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
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The figure from refining metals is continued from Jeremiah 6:27. "In
refining, the alloy containing the gold or silver is mixed with lead,
and fused in a furnace on a vessel of earth or bone-ash: a cu...
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I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER, &C.— The prophet in these verses
evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the
verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such trial,
m...
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6. _The hopeless task of the Prophet_ (Jeremiah 6:27-30)
TRANSLATION
(27) A tower have I made you among My people, a fortified city that
you may know, then test their way. (28) They are all rebelliou...
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The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder
melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED - so intense a heat is made that the very
bellows...
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6:29 burned, (a-4) * i.e. so that the current of air, needed to cause
the lead to carry off the dross, ceased, leaving unrefined (reprobate)
silver. It might read 'the bellows puff.' fire; (b-11) Othe...
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All the prophet's fervour is without effect. Nothing of value rewards
the long assay. ARE BURNED] RV 'blow fiercely.'
PLUCKED AWAY] i.e. eliminated from the good....
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED. — Better, _burn,_ or _glow._ In the
interpretation of the parable the “bellows” answer to the life of
the prophet as filled with the breath or spirit of Jehovah. He is, as
it w...
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נָחַ֣ר מַפֻּ֔חַ _מֵ_†_אֵ֖שׁ_† _תַּ֣ם_†
עֹפָ֑רֶת לַ †
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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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The (x) bellows is burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; the
founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
(x) All the pain and labour that has been taken with them is lost....
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_Bellows, or crucible. --- Lead, which was intermixed to purify the
dross (St. Jerome) of gold and silver. But brass and iron could not be
thus purified. All would be lost labour. Afflictions do not c...
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The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way
of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are
as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
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He says, that the _bellows _was consumed by _the fire _and without any
advantage. The whole sentence is metaphorical. Interpreters refer it
simply to what was taught; and hence they consider the mouth...
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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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THE BELLOWS ARE BURNT,.... Which Kimchi interprets of the mouth and
throat of the prophet, which, through reproving the people, were dried
up, and become raucous and hoarse, and without any profit to...
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The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder
melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
Ver. 29. _The bellows are burnt._] The prophet's lungs are spent; all
their...
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_They are all grievous revolters_ Obstinate and refractory; _walking
with slanders_ Making it their business to detract from thee and the
other prophets. Blaney translates the clause, _They are all of...
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The bellows are burned, in the long process which was intended to
purify the people and produce some amount of gold, THE LEAD IS
CONSUMED OF THE FIRE, or, "out of its fire comes lead," instead of the...
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THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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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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THE BELLOWS ARE BURNED: the prophet prosecutes his metaphor taken from
refining of metals, intimating herein that the prophets had spent
their lungs to no purpose; see the like PSALMS 22:15, PSALMS 69...
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Jeremiah 6:29 bellows H4647 fiercely H2787 (H8738) lead H5777 consumed
H8552 (H8804) fire H800 H784 smelter...
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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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JEREMIAH LEARNS THAT YHWH HAS ESTABLISHED HIM AS AN ASSAYER OF HIS
PEOPLE, AS WELL AS THEIR FORTRESS, ALTHOUGH ALL THAT HE WILL DISCOVER
WILL BE THAT THEY ARE A MIXTURE OF BASE METAL AND DROSS (JEREMI...
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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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_The bellows are burnt._
THE BELLOWS BURNT
Apply to--
I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people
were impressed. So also with Noah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus
Himself....
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A PAIR OF BELLOWS
The bellows. Jeremiah 6:29.
Our text today is a word used only once in the Bible, yet we all know
it well, and many of us have in our homes the thing it stands for.
Turn up the Bo...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:27 TESTER OF METALS. Jeremiah’s task
is to assess how much impurity remains in a people called to be pure.
The ancient refining process used heated lead to draw out ore fro...
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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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1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:12; Ezekiel 24:13; Hosea 11:7; Isaiah 49:4;...