Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

Jeremiah 8:1-2

JEREMIAH—NOTE ON Jeremiah 8:1 Removing bones from a grave was a great insult (2 Kings 23:16). Victorious invaders often did this (Amos 2:1). Ironically, these bones will be placed in full view of the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven that Judah worshiped (Jeremiah 7:17).

⇐ ⇔ ⇒
Continues after advertising

See also Jeremiah 8:1-2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER VIII _The judgments threatened in the last chapter are here declared_ _to extend to the very dead, whose tombs should be opened, and_ _the carcasses treated with every mark of indignity_, 1...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Not the living only but the dead shall be exposed to the ruthless violence of the enemy, who will ransack the graves of the wealthier classes....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for t...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle. BONES. Note the Figure of speech _Repetitio_, for emphasis. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_, to emphasize each class as responsible for the corru...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah 8:1. _they shall bring out_ Not, apparently, with the hope of finding spoil, treasures and ornaments of value being often buried with the dead (cp. Darius's fruitless visit to the tomb of Nit...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AT THAT TIME, SAITH THE LORD— "The Chaldeans shall regard neither the living nor the dead. They shall put the living to death without remorse; and shall break open and defile the tombs of the dead, in...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Future Destruction Jeremiah 7:32 to Jeremiah 8:3 TRANSLATION (32) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no longer be called the Topheth or the valley of the son...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inh...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES] either from pure wantonness, or in the hope of finding treasure or ornaments of value....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    VIII. (1) AT THAT TIME. — There is, it is obvious, no break in the discourse, and the time is therefore that of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldæans, and of the burial of the slain. Not even...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בָּ † עֵ֣ת הַ הִ֣יא נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֡ה _יֹוצִ֣יאוּ_

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabita...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Graves. They might suppose that they would find treasures in them, as the tombs of Semiramis, Cyrus, &c., were thus enriched. This inhumanity seems to have taken place before the last siege, Baruch i...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS The Prophet is going on with the same Sermon, in the same strain and on the same subject. The Chapter is made up of reproof and lamentation....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It is more than probable, that the ransacking of the sepulchres of the kings of Israel and Judah by the enemy, was more in their view to find treasure, than to show contempt. David's grave we are told...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    I Have said that Jeremiah repeats in the first verse what he had before said, — that the Jews would be deprived of their graves, in order that there might be on the dead a mark of God’s vengeance; as...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AT THAT TIME, SAITH THE LORD, THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH,.... That is, either the Chaldeans or the Romans would do this; for this refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, eith...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _At that time_, &c. The first three verses of this chapter properly belong to the preceding, and ought not to have been separated from it. _They shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah_ “The C...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    At that time, saith the Lord, namely, when the sentence of God upon Jerusalem would be carried into effect, THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH, AND THE BONES OF HIS PRINCES, AND THE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    RETRIBUTION UPON THE JEWS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-3 Though no real hurt can be done to a dead body, yet disgrace to the remains of wicked persons may alarm those yet alive; and this reminds us that the Divine justice and punishments extend beyond t...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    JEREMIAH CHAPTER 8 The calamity of the Jews, both dead and alive, JEREMIAH 8:1. Their brutish impenitency, JEREMIAH 8:4: Their vain boast of wisdom; their covetousness, security, impudence, JEREMIAH 8...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 8:1 time H6256 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 out H3318 (H8686) bones H6106 kings H4428 Judah...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 13:2; 2 Chronicles 34:4; 2 Chronicles 34:5; 2 Kings 23:16;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The bones — This denotes the utter desolation of the city, not only rasing the walls, but turning up the very sepulchres which were accounted sacred, and not to be violated....

Continues after advertising