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Verse Jeremiah 16:6. _NOR CUT THEMSELVES_] A custom of the heathen
forbidden to the Jews, Leviticus 19:28; Deuteronomy 14:1, and which
appears now to have prevailed among them; because, having become...
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CUT THEMSELVES ... MAKE THEMSELVES BALD - Both these practices were
strictly forbidden in the Law (marginal references) probably as being
pagan customs, but they seem to have remained in common use. B...
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THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT
OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17)
CHAPTER 16
_ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _
2. The coming days of...
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JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR
SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming
sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
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CUT THEMSELVES... MAKE... BALD. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus
19:28; Leviticus 21:5.Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 14:1). C
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_nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald_ practices common among
semi-civilized races. For both together, as here, cp. Jeremiah 47:5;
for the former, Jeremiah 41:5, and perhaps (see C.B.) Hosea 7...
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NOR CUT THEMSELVES— The cutting of their own flesh, as a mark of
grief for their deceased friends and relations, though expressly
forbidden to the Jews by the law, Leviticus 19:28. Deuteronomy 14:1
ap...
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III. PROPHETIC CONDUCT Jeremiah 16:1-21
Jeremiah came through his personal crisis. He repented and God took
him back. Now that the rebellious prophet was humble and contrite, God
gives him further ins...
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not
be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor
make themselves bald for them:
NOR CUT THEMSELVES - indicat...
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1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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NOR CUT THEMSELVES] in token of mourning: cp. Jeremiah 47:5....
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NOR CUT THEMSELVES, NOR MAKE THEMSELVES BALD. — Both practices were
forbidden by the Law (Leviticus 19:28; Leviticus 21:5; Deuteronomy
14:1), probably in order to draw a line of demarcation between Is...
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וּ מֵ֨תוּ גְדֹלִ֧ים וּ קְטַנִּ֛ים בָּ
†...
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The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the
prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism,
commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to
say, h...
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be
buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, (c) nor cut themselves,
nor make themselves bald for them:
(c) That is, should not...
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_Cut. Moses prohibited this being done in honour of Adonis, Leviticus
xix. 27., Deuteronomy xiv. 1., and Ezechiel xxvii. 31. "The custom of
cutting the arms and hair still subsists in Judea," says St....
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I venture to read this precept given to Jeremiah concerning marriage
while in Babylon, both with a national and spiritual view. No
alliances were to be made by the people of God, with their idolatrous...
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He pursues the same subject: he says that all would die
indiscriminately, the common people as well as the chief men, that
none would be exempt from destruction; for God would make a great
slaughter,...
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In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family
relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of
interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely
br...
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BOTH THE GREAT AND THE SMALL SHALL DIE IN THIS LAND,.... The nobles as
well as the common people, high and low, rich and poor; none shall be
exempted from the grievous deaths by the sword, famine, and...
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be
buried, neither shall [men] lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor
make themselves bald for them:
Ver. 6. _Both the great and...
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_Enter not into the house of mourning_ Or, of _a mourning feast_,
according to the reading in the margin, the word מרזח, occurring
also Amos 6:7, and being there rendered _a banquet._ The sense seems...
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THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH...
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land, as a result of
the withdrawal of His blessing; THEY SHALL NOT BE BURIED, NEITHER
SHALL MEN LAMENT FOR THEM, with the usual signs of mourning, NOR C...
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1-9 The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his
country ruined very shortly. In the prospect of sad times, he is to
abstain from marriage, mourning for the dead, and pleasure. Tho...
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There shall so many of all ranks and sizes die in this land, that men
shall have no time to bury them, or there shall not be enough left
living to bury the dead; nor shall men, for their own miseries,...
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THE SECOND SIGN: ABSTENTION FROM MOURNING (JEREMIAH 16:5).
The second sign was to be seen as the abstention from mourning and
from attendance at funerals. Proper mourning for the dead was again
seen a...
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JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND
FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION
THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS
IN...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming
calamities.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the
backslider in heart with his...
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Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The
prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it
respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter
s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows
that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of
Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses
the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
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Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21.
Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called
him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16:
The word of the LORD came also unto me...
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Amos 6:11; Deuteronomy 14:1; Ezekiel 9:5; Ezekiel 9:6; Isaiah 22:12;...
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Nor cut — Cutting themselves and cutting off their hair, were Pagan
customs, which God forbad his own people; but yet it seemed they
practised them: but saith God, Men shall die so fast that they shal...