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Verse Jeremiah 1:18. _I HAVE MADE THEE THIS DAY A DEFENCED CITY, AND
AN IRON_ _PILLAR, AND, BRAZEN WALLS_] Though thou shalt be exposed to
persecutions and various indignities, they shall not prevail...
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Metaphorically the walls and fortifications of the city represent the
prophet’s power of patiently enduring the attacks of his enemies;
while the iron pillar, supporting the whole weight of the roof J...
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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 TWO VISIONS OF JUDGMENT. These form a separate experience, and
imply some change of standpoint, since it is now the judgment of Judah
through the instrumentality of the nations which is presented...
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MADE THEE. give thee [as].
BRASEN WALLS. Some codices, with two early printed editions (one in
margin), Targum, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "a
wall of bronze" (singular)
AGAINST....
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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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_a defenced city, and an iron pillar; and brasen walls_ Jeremiah was
to be fortified by divine strength against the attacks which he would
have to confront throughout his prophetic life. The assaults...
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Words of encouragement
17. _Thou therefore gird up thy loins_ obviously metaphorical. Prepare
for energetic action or strenuous conflict. The lower part of the
flowing Eastern robe was gathered up in...
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In 2 Chronicles 6:41-42 the words of the Psalm are quoted at the close
of Solomon's prayer at the Dedication of the Temple, and some
commentators suppose that in Psalms 132:8 ff. the Psalmist carries...
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II. THE CALL CONFIRMED Jeremiah 1:11-19
TRANSLATION
(11) And the word of the LORD came unto me saying, What are you
looking at, Jeremiah? And I replied, I am looking at a rod of almond.
(12) Then the...
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For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron
pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of
Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests there...
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THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY
1-3. See Introduction....
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I HAVE MADE THEE.. A DEFENCED CITY, etc.] God would endue Jeremiah
with firmness and resolution to carry out his mission in spite of all
opposition....
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I HAVE MADE THEE... A DEFENCED CITY... — Images of strength are
heaped one upon another. The prophet is represented as attacked by
kings, princes, priests, and people, as the cities of Judah are by th...
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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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For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an (r)
iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the
kings of Judah, against her princes, against her priests, and agai...
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How needful must faithfulness be in the service of the Lord? And where
the Lord gives grace to his poor servants to be faithful, he will give
strength to bear them up against all their foes. An iron p...
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God supplies here his servant with confidence; for courage was
necessary in that state of trembling which we have observed. Jeremiah
thought himself unfit to undertake a work so onerous; he had also t...
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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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FOR, BEHOLD, I HAVE MADE THEE THIS DAY A DEFENCED CITY,.... Or, "as"
one; so read the Targum, Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions;
which is inexpungible, and cannot be taken:
AND AN IRON PILLAR;...
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For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron
pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of
Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereo...
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_For I have made thee this day a defenced city_ That is, from this day
I will so defend thee that they shall be no more able to hurt thee
than they would be if thou wast in a strongly-fortified and
im...
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For, behold, I have made thee this day a defensed city, one fortified
most strongly, AND AN IRON PILLAR, AND BRAZEN WALLS AGAINST THE WHOLE
LAND, enduing him with strength which no power of the enemie...
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THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
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11-19 God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and
Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond-tree, which is more forward in
the spring than any other, represented the speedy approach of
judg...
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FOR, BEHOLD; Heb. _For I_, lo: q.d. For my part, I will not fail to do
what I have promised, to stand by thee. A DEFENCED CITY, Heb. _city of
defence_, impregnable, which the two following expressions...
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Jeremiah 1:18 I H589 made H5414 (H8804) day H3117 fortified H4013 city
H5892 iron H1270 pillar H5982 bronze...
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YHWH GIVES JEREMIAH TWO SIGNS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE CERTAINTY OF
YHWH'S WATCHFULNESS OVER HIS PURPOSES, AND THE SECOND A SIGN WHICH
DEMONSTRATED THE JUDGMENTS THAT WERE TO COME FROM THE NORTH BECAUSE...
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THE SIGN OF THE BOILING CAULDRON (JEREMIAH 1:13).
The second sign was that of a cauldron full of boiling liquid ready to
be poured out on Judah from the north, a vivid picture of threatening
judgment...
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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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_I have made thee this day a defenced city, etc._
A SURE STRONGHOLD IS GOD
Though thou shalt be exposed to persecutions and various indignities,
they shall not prevail against thee. To their attacks...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce
the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s
call and message (vv....
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:18 Jeremiah is invincible as long as he
does God’s work. God’s sovereignty is his comfort.
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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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Ezekiel 3:8; Ezekiel 3:9; Isaiah 50:7; Jeremiah 15:20; Jeremiah 21:4;
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This whole land — All its inhabitants in general; intimating, that
though men of all degrees should set themselves against him, yet God
would support him against their all, and would carry him thro' h...