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CHAPTER XIII
_This chapter contains an entire prophecy. The symbol of the_
_linen girdle, left to rot for a considerable time, was a type_
_of the manner in which the glory of the Jews should be ma...
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A LINEN GIRDLE - The appointed dress of the priestly order (Leviticus
16:4, ...).
PUT IT NOT IN WATER - i. e., do not wash it, and so let it represent
the deep-grained pollution of the people....
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CHAPTER 13
Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations
_ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _
2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15)
3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
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THE SYMBOL OF THE WAIST-CLOTH, its removal signifying the rejection
and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet
buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as a...
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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-14
a linen girdle. Soft girdles, made of silk or linen, still worn by
upper classes. Compare Ezekiel 16:10. Some embroidered (Daniel
10:5.Revelation 1:13;...
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_a linen girdle_ Linen, not woollen, garments were appointed for
priestly wear. See e.g. Exodus 28:42. It was thus the fittest material
for that which should symbolize the people of God.
_put it not i...
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Jeremiah 13:1-11. The acted symbol of the linen girdle
This ch. consists of five sections, quite independent of one another.
The first two are in poetic prose, and the remaining in Ḳinah metre.
Three...
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GO, AND GET THEE A LINEN GIRDLE— The prophet here begins a new
discourse. He himself gives us an explanation of the meaning of the
symbolical action here related. See the note on ch. Jeremiah 1:11. He...
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VI. THE PRIDE OF THE NATION Jeremiah 13:1-27
Arrogant, willful, stubborn pride was at the root of all Judah's sins.
In chapter thirteen Jeremiah issues five stern warnings concerning
pride and its con...
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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put
it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Many of these figurative acts being either not possible or not
probable or decorous...
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JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE
The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen'
(Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
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GO, etc.] It is doubtful whether this and the subsequent acts of the
prophet were real or done only in symbol. As, however, Jeremiah
appears to have been absent from Jerusalem during the most of the
l...
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A LINEN GIRDLE. — The point of comparison is given in Jeremiah
13:11. Of all garments worn by man the girdle was that most identified
with the man’s activity, nearest to his person. The “linen
girdle”...
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כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלַ֗י הָלֹ֞וךְ
וְ קָנִ
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CHAPTER VIII
THE FALL OF PRIDE
Jeremiah 13:1
THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated
by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah
unto me," witho...
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20-25, THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE
Jeremiah 13:1-11
This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some
such striking symbol before them the attention _of the people_ must
have been pow...
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The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah
ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself
and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
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_Girdle, usually worn by women. (St. Jerome) (Exodus xxviii. 42.) ---
It denoted the Jews, who became more corrupt during the captivity;
(ver. 7, 11.) so that God delivered them out of his pure mercy....
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Jeremiah spared no pains, and thought nothing of his trouble to follow
up the Lord's commissions. Euphrates was no small distance from
Jerusalem: but yet we find thither the Prophet went both to carry...
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CONTENTS
The Prophet in this Chapter is teaching by signs, as he had before
been instructing by plain discourse. Under the similitude of a girdle
made rotten, and of bottles perishing with wine; the...
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I have said that there is here a new prophecy; for the Prophet is said
to buy for himself a girdle or a belt, or, according to some, a truss
or breeches; and as mention is made of linen, this opinion...
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Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart,
announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it
were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
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THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO ME,.... In a vision, and by the spirit of
prophecy: when this was said is not certain, very likely in the reign
of Jehoiakim; the prophet gives an account of what had been don...
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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put
it upon thy loins, and put it not in water.
Ver. 1. _Go, get thee a linen girdle._] Or, Belt, or swath.
_ And put it not in water....
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_Thus saith the Lord unto me_ The prophet here begins a new discourse.
_Go and get thee a girdle_, &c. “God explains, at Jeremiah 13:11,
what was meant by the symbol of the girdle, or sash, worn about...
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Thus saith the Lord unto me, in bidding the prophet perform an act of
symbolic significance, GO AND GET THEE A LINEN GIRDLE, a very
important article of apparel in those days, since it held the garmen...
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THE SYMBOL OF THE GIRDLE...
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1-11 It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs. And we have
the explanation, ver. Jeremiah 13:9. The people of Israel had been to
God as this girdle. He caused them to cleave to him by the law...
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JEREMIAH CHAPTER 13 In the type of a linen girdle God prefigureth
their destruction, JEREMIAH 13:1. Under the parable of bottles filled
with wine, is foretold their drunkenness with misery, JEREMIAH 1...
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Jeremiah 13:1 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8804) Go H1980 (H8800) get H7069
(H8804) linen H6593 sash...
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THE ACTED OUT PROPHECY OF THE LINEN GIRDLE (JEREMIAH 13:1).
YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people
by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is initially to...
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Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the
Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it
became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
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_Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the
place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was
profitable for nothing._
THE CAST-OFF GIRDLE
In many instances...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:1 This is the first of several symbolic
acts Jeremiah performs to reveal God’s will.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as
determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler,
Hend.,...
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EXPOSITION
The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely
commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching
rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put
it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of
the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
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Ezekiel 4:1; Hebrews 1:1; Jeremiah 13:11; Jeremiah 19:1; Jeremiah 27:2