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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 1:18

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 Judges 16:29; 1 Kings 7:21), signifies that no trials or sufferings would crush his steadfast will.

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See also Jeremiah 1:18 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ אֲנִ֞י הִנֵּ֧ה נְתַתִּ֣יךָ הַ יֹּ֗ום לְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

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  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

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

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 1:18 I H589 made H5414 (H8804) day H3117 fortified H4013 city H5892 iron H1270 pillar H5982 bronze...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:18 Jeremiah is invincible as long as he does God’s work. God’s sovereignty is his comfort. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 3:8; Ezekiel 3:9; Isaiah 50:7; Jeremiah 15:20; Jeremiah 21:4;

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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...

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