Verse Jeremiah 13:19. _THE CITIES OF THE SOUTH SHALL BE SHUT UP_] Not only the cities of the _north_, the quarter at which the Chaldeans entered, but the cities of the _south_ also; for he shall proce...
SHALL BE SHUT UP - Rather, “are shut up, and no man openeth them.” The cities of the Negeb, the southern district of Judah, are blockaded, with no one to raise the siege. The captivity was the inevita...
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
CITIES. So in Codex "Mugah"; but Codex "Hallel" (both quoted in the _Massorah)_ reads "eyes". THE SOUTH. the Negeb. See note on Psalms 126:4. Compare Genesis 12:9; Genesis 13:3....
Address to the king and the queen-mother The highest shall be brought low, and the land with its cities emptied by universal captivity. Graf and Du. make the king to be Jehoiakim and thus the queen-...
_the South_ Heb. the _Negeb_, a barren region in the S. of Judah (see Genesis 12:9 mg.), whose cities are named Joshua 15:21-32. The sense is: none shall escape, not even those most remote from the po...
THE CITIES OF THE SOUTH SHALL BE SHUT UP— "The cities in the southern parts of Judaea shall be shut up, because there shall be no inhabitants. All the lot of Judah, heretofore so beautiful, so well-pe...
D. WARNING: Pride Leads to Dishonor Jeremiah 13:18-19 TRANSLATION (18) Say to the king and the queen-mother, Sit down in abasement for your headdress, your glorious crown has come down. (19) The cit...
The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. CITIES OF THE SOUTH - namely, south of J...
13:19 south (a-5) _ Negeb_ . so chs. 17.26; 32.44. see Genesis 12:9 ....
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,...
CITIES OF THE SOUTH] i.e. of Judah. SHALL BE] RV 'are.' SHUT UP] i.e. besieged, blockaded, by the Chaldeans....
THE CITIES OF THE SOUTH. — The term thus rendered (the _Negeb_) is throughout the Old Testament used for a definite district, stretching from Mount Halak northward to a line south of Engedi and Hebron...
עָרֵ֥י הַ נֶּ֛גֶב סֻגְּר֖וּ וְ אֵ֣ין פֹּתֵ֑חַ
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...
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...
The cities of (h) the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. (h) That is, of Judah, which lies sou...
_South, belonging to Juda; (Calmet) or Egypt will afford no protection. (Tournemine) (Chap. xxxvii. 3, 10.)_...
I interrupt not the reading of those verses, because they are connected. They contain the solemn expostulation of the Lord, in the view of their sins. They point out also the utter impossibility of th...
By the _cities of the south, _almost all understand the cities of the tribe of Judah, whose portion was towards the south; and by the cities being shut up, they consider that what is meant is, that th...
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...
THE CITIES OF THE SOUTH SHALL BE SHUT UP, AND NONE SHALL OPEN THEM,.... Meaning the cities of Judah, which lay in the southern part of the land of Israel, and to the south of Babylon; which might be s...
_The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive._ Ver. 19. _The cities of the south shall...
_The cities of the south_, &c. The cities of Judah, which lay in the southern part of Canaan, shall be straitly besieged by the enemy, so that there shall be no going in and out; or shall be deserted...
The cities of the South shall be shut up, all the portals and roads filled with ruins, AND NONE SHALL OPEN THEM, no one being present to remove the _ debris_ left after the destruction of the cities....
AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...
18-27 Here is a message sent to king Jehoiakim, and his queen. Their sorrows would be great indeed. Do they ask, Wherefore come these things upon us? Let them know, it is for their obstinacy in sin....
Either the cities of Judah which lay southward from Chaldea, and therefore their enemies in the next verse are said to come from the north, and this great evil is said to have come from the north; or...
Jeremiah 13:19 cities H5892 South H5045 up H5462 (H8795) open H6605 (H8802) Judah H3063 captive H1540 ...
A FINAL APPEAL FOR REPENTANCE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, FOR IF THEY DO FAIL TO RESPOND THEIR FINAL JUDGMENT WILL COME UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 13:15). The people are called on to look to YHWH while there is s...
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...
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...
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.,...
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...
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...
2 Kings 25:21; Deuteronomy 28:15; Deuteronomy 28:52; Deuteronomy 28:64;...
The cities — The cities of Judah lay southward from Chaldea....