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Verse Jeremiah 1:8. _BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES_] That is, the
_Jews_, whom he knew would persecute him because of the message which
he brought. To be _fore_-warned is to be half armed. He knew what...
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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 PROPHET'S CALL. The account of this should be compared with
similar accounts of the calls of other prophets (see Isaiah 6, Ezekiel
1:1 to Ezekiel 3:3; Amos 7:12 ff.) and the characteristic differe...
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BE NOT AFRAID, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3:12; Deuteronomy
31:6). App-92. Compare Ezekiel (Ezekiel 2:6); Paul (Acts 26:17).
saith
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The Prophet's call and its nature...
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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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_Be not afraid_ Jeremiah had pleaded his youth, but, as the Lord saw,
another cause for his shrinking from the task was his natural
timidity....
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C. The Divine Assurance Jeremiah 1:7-10
When called of God Moses brought forth excuse after excuse; but
Jeremiah only needed encouragement and reassurance. The Lord took
steps to give that timid and...
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II. THE CALL EXTENDED Jeremiah 1:4-10
TRANSLATION
(4) Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying, (5) Before I formed
you in the belly I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart;
a proph...
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Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee,
saith the LORD.
BE NOT AFRAID - (, "Be not afraid of their words, nor dismayed at
their looks").
I AM WITH THEE - (; , "As I was...
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1:8 saith (c-14) See Note a, Isaiah 1:24 ....
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THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY
1-3. See Introduction....
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BE NOT AFRAID. — The words imply, as in those spoken to Ezekiel
(Ezekiel 2:6), to St. Peter (Luke 5:10), and St. Paul (Acts 18:9), the
fear that sprang from the sense of personal weakness and unfitnes...
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אַל ־תִּירָ֖א מִ פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּֽי
־אִתְּךָ֥ א
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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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Reader! do not fail to remark, how humbling grace is in the soul.
Before the Prophet was conscious of the work wrought in him, the
blessed effects were made to appear, in a lowliness suited to the
mer...
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We may learn from this verse that Jeremiah, when he observed the heavy
and hard conflicts he had to undertake, was greatly disturbed; for he
had not courage enough firmly and boldly to assail enemies...
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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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BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES,.... Their stern looks, their frowning
brows, and angry countenances, which would threaten him with
destruction and death:
FOR I AM WITH THEE, TO DELIVER THEE, SAITH THE...
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Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to deliver thee,
saith the LORD.
Ver. 8. _Be not afraid of their faces._] Look they never so big, as
did Henry VIII upon Latimer and upon Lambert, w...
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_But the Lord said unto me_, &c. God refuses to accept of his excuse,
and renews his commission to him to execute the prophetic office. Thus
God refused to accept the excuse of Moses, made on a like o...
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Be not afraid of their faces, in an excess of awe which would
interfere with the effectiveness of his message; FOR I AM WITH THEE TO
DELIVER THEE, SAITH THE LORD. He thus imparted the necessary courag...
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THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
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1-10 Jeremiah's early call to the work and office of a prophet is
stated. He was to be a prophet, not to the Jews only, but to the
neighbouring nations. He is still a prophet to the whole world, and...
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BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES; their fierce looks, EZEKIEL 3:9, the
indication of their enraged minds, DANIEL 3:19; neither when thou
deliverest my message to them, nor when thou mayst be cited before...
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Jeremiah 1:8 afraid H3372 (H8799) faces H6440 deliver H5337 (H8687)
says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068
not
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JEREMIAH SEEKS TO EXCUSE HIMSELF FROM HIS GOD-APPOINTED TASK ONLY TO
BE SET RIGHT BY YHWH (JEREMIAH 1:7).
Jeremiah diffidently sought to excuse himself from the task to which
God was calling him, seei...
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JEREMIAH'S INITIAL CALL (JEREMIAH 1:4).
YHWH's initial call assures Jeremiah that he had been chosen even
before he was born, that he need not be afraid that he was still young
and immature (around t...
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Jeremiah 1:8
The prophets were ever ungratefully treated by the Israelites; they
were resisted, their warnings neglected, their good services
forgotten. But there was this difference between the earli...
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Jeremiah 1:6
It is not improbable that Jeremiah was almost a child when he spoke
these words. Considering the time to which he lived, he must have been
young in the thirteenth year of Josiah, young en...
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Jeremiah 1:1
I. (Jeremiah 1:4). The two great blessings of _election_and
_mediation_are here distinctly taught. God did not speak to the
nations directly, but mediationally. He created a minister who...
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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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_Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._
Seven points in Jeremiah’s life and call:--
1. God knowing him. “I knew thee.”
2. God sanctifying him. “I sanctified thee.”
3. God ordaining him. “...
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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 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Timothy 4:17; 2 Timothy 4:18; Acts 18:10;...
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JEREMIAH, THE WAILING PROPHET
Jeremiah 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The ten tribes of Israel had passed into captivity before God called
Jeremiah. Judah was following hard in the path of her sister natio...