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Verse Jeremiah 15:3. _I WILL APPOINT OVER THEM FOUR KINDS_] There
shall appear _four_ instruments of my justice.
1. The _sword_ to slay.
2. The _dogs_ to tear what is slain.
3. The _fowls_ of the h...
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KINDS - literally, as the margin, i. e., classes of things. The first
is to destroy the living, the other three to mutilate and consume the
dead.
TO TEAR - literally, “to drag along the ground.” It f...
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CHAPTER 15
The Prophet's Deep Soul-Exercise
_ 1. The answer (Jeremiah 15:1) _
2. The prophet's grief and sorrow and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah
15:10)
Jeremiah 15:1. The preceding prayer is
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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...
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I WILL APPOINT, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:16)....
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See introd. summary to section....
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_kinds_ lit. as mg. _families_. Four sorts of destructive agencies.
Similar threats occur chs. Jeremiah 19:7; Jeremiah 34:20.
_tear_ lit. as mg. _drag_....
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E. The Final Rejection of Prophetic Intercession
Jeremiah 15:1-9
TRANSLATION
(1) And the LORD said unto me: If Moses and Samuel were standing
before Me, I would have no affection for this people. Ca...
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And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to
slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
APPOINT - alludin...
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15:3 kinds (e-8) Lit. 'families.' tear, (f-20) Lit. 'drag along.'...
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1-9. The coming woes described....
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FOUR KINDS. — The sword, as the direct instrument of death, is
followed by those that follow up its work, the beasts and birds of
prey that feed on the corpses of the slain. The latter feature has
nat...
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וּ פָקַדְתִּ֨י עֲלֵיהֶ֜ם אַרְבַּ֤ע
מִשְׁפָּחֹות֙ נְאֻם...
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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...
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To this great appeal Jehovah again replied by declaring mercy to be
impossible, and judgment inevitable, and this on account of the sin of
Manasseh which had been persisted in, namely, the rejection o...
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And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to
slay, and the (b) dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
(b) The dogs, bi...
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_Kinds of persecutors, the sword, &c. (Calmet)_...
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These judgments had their accomplishment, in the captivity that
followed, when the people were carried away to Babylon....
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Jeremiah proceeds with the same subject. He said yesterday that the
people were no longer cared for by God, and so that nothing remained
for them but in various ways to perish, and that the last punis...
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The beginning of chapter 15 is an answer to the close of chapter 14;
but the instruction and the principles it contains are very
remarkable. Jehovah declares that if Moses and Samuel (whose love for
I...
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AND I WILL APPOINT OVER THEM FOUR KINDS, SAITH THE LORD,.... Or four
families x, and these very devouring ones; that is, four sorts of
punishment; and so the Targum,
"four evil punishments;''
which...
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And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the LORD: the sword to
slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the
beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.
Ver. 3. _And I will...
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_If they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth?_ If they ask thee
what thou meanest by going forth, and whither they shall go: _thou
shalt tell them, Such as are for death to death_, &c. In general...
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And I will appoint over them four kinds saith the Lord, four varieties
of death: THE SWORD TO SLAY, so that their carcasses would lie on the
ground, AND THE DOGS TO TEAR, AND THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN,...
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THE LORD REFUSES HELP THE SECOND TIME...
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KINDS:
_ Heb._ families...
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1-9 The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in
vain. The putting of this as a case, though they should stand before
him, shows that they do not, and that saints in heaven do no...
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_ Four kinds of destroyers_; the enemies swords shall slay them, and
so make meat for the dogs, who shall tear their carcasses, and for the
birds of prey, who shall prey upon their dead bodies that sh...
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YHWH'S RESPONSE TO JEREMIAH'S PLEA IS OF THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY AND
AWFULNESS OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 15:1).
In the face of Jeremiah's plea YHWH now makes clear that nothing can
now stop His...
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CONTENTS: Message on the drought, concluded. The people abandoned to
ruin. Jeremiah complains of his hardships.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Moses, Samuel.
CONCLUSION: Miserable is the case of those w...
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Jeremiah 15:1. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,_ as when
Moses by his prayers saved the nation, Exodus 32:11, and Samuel in
Mizpeh was heard, when the Lord terrified the Philistine armies by...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:2 Judah has four places to GO: plague
(PESTILENCE), battle (SWORD), starvation (FAMINE), and exile ...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES—For _Chronology of the Chapter and
Historical Facts_, see on chap. Jeremiah 10:5 _in loc_.
1. PERSONAL ALLUSIONS. Jeremiah 15:1. “_Moses and Samuel_,” here
mentioned as h...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 15:1
Second rejection of Jeremiah's intercession; awfulness of the
impending judgment.
JEREMIAH 15:1
THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL, etc. It is a mere supposition which is here
made; t...
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Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,
yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my
sight, and let them go foRuth (Jeremiah 15:1).
Now it is interesti...
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1 Kings 21:23; 1 Kings 21:24; 2 Kings 9:35; Deuteronomy 28:26;...