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Jeremiah 12:16

Jeremiah 12:16 learn H3925 (H8799) carefully H3925 (H8800) ways H1870 people H5971 swear H7650 (H8736) name H8034 LORD H3068 lives H2416 taught H3925 (H8765) people H5971 swear H7650 (H8736) Baal H1168 established H1129 (H8738) midst H8432 people H5971

my name - Jeremiah 4:2, Jeremiah 5:2; Deuteronomy 10:20-21; Song of Solomon 1:8; Isaiah 9:18-21, Isaiah 45:23, Isaiah 65:16; Romans 14:11

as they - Joshua 23:7; Psalms 106:35-36; Zephaniah 1:5

built - Isaiah 19:23-25, Isaiah 56:5-6; Zechariah 2:11; Romans 11:17; 1 Corinthians 3:9; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Peter 2:4-6

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 12 The Prophet's Prayer and the House Forsaken, Yet Compassion _ 1. The prophet's prayer (Jeremiah 12:1) 2. The house forsaken, yet compassion (Jeremiah 12:7) _ Jeremiah 12:1. In his outburs...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESOLATION OF JUDAH BY HER NEIGHBOURS, AND THEIR FUTURE. This isolated prophecy is most naturally referred to the events of 2 Kings 24:1 f., when Jehoiakim had revolted against Nebuchadrezzar (_c....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AS. according as. rk; but. type of Christ's ascension, as is clear from Ephesians 4:8. LED. led in proc on. CAPTIVITY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for captives. RECEIVED GIFTS...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN SHALL THEY BE BUILT, &C.— We have here a clear prophesy of the calling of the Gentiles; and though, after the return from Babylon, the Maccabees in particular were zealous to make proselytes to t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    V. THE PREDICTION CONCERNING THE NATIONS Jeremiah 12:14-17 TRANSLATION (14) Thus says the LORD concerning all my wicked neighbors who lay their hands on the inheritance which I caused My people Israe...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-4. The prosperity of the wicked perplexes Jeremiah....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    TO SWEAR BY MY NAME. — There is an obvious reference to the hopes expressed in Jeremiah 4:2. To acknowledge Jehovah in all the most solemn forms of adjuration (comp. Jeremiah 5:2; Psalms 63:11), and t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֡ה אִם ־לָמֹ֣ד יִלְמְדוּ֩ אֶת ־דַּֽרְכ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER VII THE BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet's car...

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

    Now we hear the prophet as he appealed to Jehovah to be his Defender, and. finally, we hear the divine determination. concerning his evil neighbors. This peril was revealed to him by Jehovah. It was...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the (r) ways of my people, to swear by my name, The (s) LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built (t) in...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _People. After the captivity, converts were more cherished. Yet the predictions concerning the call of the Gentiles were accomplished only by the preaching of the gospel. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I detain not the Reader, with multiplying observations on these verses, the tenor of which is so uniformly discoverable through all the Bible. But I beg of him, to remark with me, how gracious the Lor...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    We see that this refers to the Gentiles, who were previously aliens to the grace of God; nay, they entertained the most dire hatred towards his chosen people. In short, God declares that he would be m...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, IF THEY WILL DILIGENTLY LEARN THE WAYS OF MY PEOPLE,.... Not their evil ways of sin or superstition, they sometimes stray into; but the ways which God has prescribed to them...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst o...

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

    _If they will diligently learn the ways of my people_ If they will leave their idolatries, and learn of my people who lived among them to be worshippers of me the true God, and _to swear by my name, T...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord's Answer...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, the true and only religion, TO SWEAR BY MY NAME, "THE LORD LIVETH," this being one of the chief manifestations of religi...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-17 The Lord would plead the cause of his people against their evil neighbours. Yet he would afterwards show mercy to those nations, when they should learn true religion. This seems to look forward...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Though these people be heathens, yet if they will leave their idolatries, and superstitious ways of worship, and learn to worship and serve me, as my people do and ought to worship me, and SWEAR BY MY...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH HAS FORSAKEN HIS HOUSE AND REJECTED HIS HERITAGE BECAUSE OF WHAT IT HAS BECOME, AND THEIR EVIL NEIGHBOURS WILL ALSO BE PUNISHED, BUT EVEN FOR THEM THERE WILL BE HOPE IN THE FUTURE IF THEY TURN TO...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message on the broken covenant, concluded. Jeremiah's complaint to God and God's rebuke. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: When we find it hard to understand God's providences toward w...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 12:4. _He shall not see our last end._ This is sadducean language, as Psalms 104:5. “The Lord will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard.” This species of atheism blunts the edge of t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 12:16 God also has compassion on the nations who LEARN his WAYS, SWEAR BY his NAME, and obey his word. He is the C

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. See on chap. 11, Bleek’s theory; for which there is a weight of argument. All commentators agree to connect Jeremiah 12:1 with the conclusi...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 12:1 Painfully exercised by the mysteries of the Divine government, the prophet opens his grief to Jehovah. Righteous art thou, etc.; rather, _Righteous wouldest thou be_,_ O Jeho...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now Jeremiah goes on and he is talking now about the situation, the wicked man Jehoahaz that is in power. And he begins by saying, Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee (Jeremiah 12:1):...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Peter 2:4; Deuteronomy 10:20; Deuteronomy 10:21;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    If — If they will leave their idolatries, and learn to worship me, and swear by my name the Lord liveth, that is, pay that homage which they owe to the Divine being to me, the living and true God. The...

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