Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 14:3
Little ones - mean ones, the common people. The word is unique to Jeremiah Jeremiah 48:4.
The pits - i. e., tanks for holding water.
Covered their heads - The sign of grief.
Little ones - mean ones, the common people. The word is unique to Jeremiah Jeremiah 48:4.
The pits - i. e., tanks for holding water.
Covered their heads - The sign of grief.
Verse Jeremiah 14:3. _THEIR NOBLES HAVE SENT THEIR LITTLE ONES_] So general was this calamity, that the servants no longer attended to their lords, but every one was interested alone for himself; and...
II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING CHAPTER 14 The Great Drought...
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
TO THE WATERS: i.e. to fetch water. AND. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, and Syriac, read this "and" in the text. COVERED THEIR HEADS. The symbol of mourning (2 S...
_little ones_ rather, as mg. _inferiors_, i.e. servants. _pits_ cisterns, or tanks, where the water was kept till wanted for use. See on ch. Jeremiah 2:13. _ashamed_ See on Jeremiah 2:26. _cover the...
LITTLE ONES TO THE WATERS, &C.— _Their younger ones for water. Jeremiah 14:6. The wild asses,_ &c.] _The wild asses stood upon the cliffs._ These animals are said to stand on the high places or cliffs...
CHAPTER TEN NATIONAL DISTRESS AND PROPHETIC DISCOURAGEMENT Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 17:27 Sometime during the ministry of Jeremiah a terrible drought or series of droughts (the Hebrew word is plura...
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their head...
14:3 ones (d-7) Or 'their menials,' as also ch. 48.4....
1-6. Description of the drought....
COVERED THEIR HEADS] as a sign of grief or confusion: cp. David (2 Samuel 19:4) and Haman (href='190 6:12'>Est 6:12)....
THEIR LITTLE ONES. — Not their children, but their menial servants. The word is peculiar to Jeremiah, and occurs only here and in Jeremiah 48:4. The vivid picture of the messengers running hither and...
וְ אַדִּ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם שָׁלְח֥וּ _צְעִירֵיהֶ֖ם_† לַ † מָּ֑יִם...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections: prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and (c) covered their...
_Water. Siloe was the only spring near, and it was often dry, (St. Jerome) though it was formerly abundant, (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 6.) as well as the fountain of Gehon. The city was furnished with...
We have here an account of the famine, which by the parallel history took place in the reign of Jehoiakim; probably just before the captivity. Jeremiah had mourned for the good king Josiah; see 2 Chro...
It is then added, _Their chiefs will send the common people to the waters _The Prophet’s object was again to point out something extraordinary, — that the great, possessing authority, would constrain...
Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared. But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
AND THEIR NOBLES HAVE SENT THEIR LITTLE ONES TO THE WATERS,.... To places where water used to be; to the pools, the upper and the lower, particularly to the fountain of Shiloah, which, Jerom says, was...
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their hea...
_And their nobles_, &c. This scarcity of water afflicted not poor persons only, who had not such means of supplying their necessities as the rich; but the greatest among them, who sent _their little o...
THE PROPHET INTERCEDES FOR THE FIRST TIME...
And their nobles, the mighty ones, the rulers of the nation, HAVE SENT THEIR LITTLE ONES, either their own servants or the common people generally, TO THE WATERS; THEY CAME TO THE PITS, the cisterns f...
1-9 The people were in tears. But it was rather the cry of their trouble, and of their sin, than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water, that we may not be taught to value it by f...
This scarcity of water afflicted not mean persons only, who have not so good means to supply their necessities as others; but their greatest persons; so as they sent their LITTLE ONES (it were better...
Jeremiah 14:3 nobles H117 sent H7971 (H8804) lads H6810 water H4325 went H935 (H8804) cisterns H1356 ...
THE LESSON OF THE GREAT DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). As a preliminary warning of what is coming YHWH sends a great drought on Judah with the result that the cisterns are empty, the springs are dry, the p...
THE DEPTHS OF THE SERIES OF DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1). The plural for ‘droughts' suggests that there had been a series of droughts, probably over a number of years. Such droughts did occur in Canaan fr...
In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied, as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
_They came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads._ THE DROUGHT OF NATURE, THE RAIN OF GRACE, AND THE LESSO...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and synchr...
EXPOSITION This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth (Jeremiah 14:1). For a drought filled the land. Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground; and the cry of...
1 Kings 17:7; 1 Kings 18:5; 1 Kings 18:6; 2 Kings 18:31; 2 Samuel 15