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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 10:17

The prophet now returns to the main subject of his sermon, the conquest of Judaea.

Thy wares - Rather, thy bundle, which could contain a few articles for necessary use, and be carried in the hand. They are going into exile.

O inhabitant of the fortress - i. e., thou that art besieged, that inhabitest a besieged town.

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See also Jeremiah 10:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 10:17. _GATHER UP THY WARES_] Pack up your goods, or what necessaries of life your enemies will permit you to carry away; for,-...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEPARTURE INTO EXILE. The personified community is told to pick up its bundle (_mg.),_ and prepare for the inevitable exile. She bewails her hurt and her spoilt dwelling. These troubles, says the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GATHER UP. Gather in. Occurs only here. WARES. bundle. For that is all they would be able to take with them. INHABITANT. inhabitress. Put for "the daughter of Zion". FORTRESS. Put by Figure of spee...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _thy wares out of the land_ the Hebrew word occurs here only, and is of doubtful meaning. This rendering connects it with the Hebrew root of Canaanite; the Canaanites being the merchants best known to...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Du. and Co. omit these _vv_., Du. rejecting 20, 21 also, while Gi. omits Jeremiah 10:18. See note on it....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exile is at hand. Appeal to Jehovah in His wrath to remember mercy The utterances, interrupted by Jeremiah 9:23-26, and Jeremiah 10:1-16, are now continued. The passage has apparently suffered both b...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GATHER UP THY WARES— That is, "Collect to Jerusalem all that you have valuable in the country: fly thither for refuge, with your best effects; for the enemy will soon extend himself all over your land...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. The Folly of Forsaking God Jeremiah 10:17-22 TRANSLATION (17) Gather your bundle from the land, you who dwell in the siege. (18) For thus says the LORD! Behold, I am about to hurl out the inhabita...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. GATHER UP THY WARES - thine effects or movable goods (, "Thou Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in t...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    10:17 fortress. (d-13) Or 'thou that dwellest in the straitness' (i.e. 'distress') or 'in the siege.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GATHER UP, etc.] i.e. collect articles for a hasty flight, O thou who art in a besieged city'; i.e. prepare for exile....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-16. The folly of idolatry. This section of the prophecy is of doubtful authorship. For (_a_) it introduces a break in the sense; (_b_) there is less smoothness between the parts than we generally fi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    GATHER UP THY WARES. — The section from Jeremiah 10:1 inclusive had been as a long parenthesis, reproving Israel for the sin which placed it among the “uncircumcised in the heart” (Jeremiah 9:26). Now...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    אִסְפִּ֥י מֵ אֶ֖רֶץ כִּנְעָתֵ֑ךְ _יֹשֶׁ֖בֶת_† בַּ †...

  • 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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...

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

    Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (k) Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. (k) The prophet wills the Jews to prepare themselves for this captivity, showing that it was now at hand that they would feel th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Shame. Idols. See if they will keep thee. Hebrew, "thy merchandise," or most precious effects._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Prophet gets back again to his old subject. The prospect of the Babylonish captivity so affected the Prophet's heart, that he could harp upon no other string. And observe, how the man of God gives...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The first verse which we have recited, the Rabbins think, is addressed to the Chaldeans, but in my view very incorrectly. Jeremiah had indeed said that all the nations who devised gods of stone and of...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    GATHER UP THY WARES OUT OF THE LAND,.... Or thy merchandise, as the Targum; or thy substance, as the Septuagint; all valuable effects and goods that are movable, which might be carried from place to p...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. Ver. 17. _Gather up thy wares out of the land._] Make up thy pack, and prevent a plundering. _Reculas tuas et sarcinas compone._...

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

    _Gather up thy wares_, &c. That is, as some explain it, “Collect to Jerusalem all that you have valuable in the country; flee thither for refuge with your best effects; for the enemy will soon extend...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Prophet's Lamentation and Prayer...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress, literally, "Collect thy bundle from the earth, thou that sittest in the distress of the siege," the summons being issued to the entir...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    INHABITANT: _ Heb._ inhabitress...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-25 The Jews who continued in their own land, felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that its threatenings are not empty terrors. Submi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The prophet now enters upon another subject, and probably begins another sermon. GATHER UP THY WARES, i.e. every thing thou hast any advantage by, not only thy domestic concerns, but all thy traffic a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 10:17 Gather H622 (H8798) wares H3666 land H776 inhabitant H3427 (H8802) fortress H4692 thy wares -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH NOTIFIES JUDAH OF HIS INTENTION TO SLING THEM OUT OF HIS LAND AND PUNISH THEM, AND THEY EXPRESS THEIR GRIEF AS THEY LOOK PROPHETICALLY AT HIS HAVING DONE SO. THE SOUND OF THE INVADERS IS HEARD AN...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 12:3; Jeremiah 21:13; Jeremiah 6:1; Micah 2:10; Matthew 24:15

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Gather up — The prophet now enters upon another subject. Thy wares — Every thing thou hast any advantage by, all thy merchandise, as men use to do in case of invasion by an enemy. The fortress — The i...

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