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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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Cp. Jeremiah 7:34....
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Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness
of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well
as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
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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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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
br...
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1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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THE VOICE OF MIRTH... — The words had been used once before
(Jeremiah 7:34), and will meet us yet again (Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah
33:11), but they gain rather than lose in their solemnity by this
verb...
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כִּי֩ כֹ֨ה אָמַ֜ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙
אֱלֹהֵ֣י...
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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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As the Lord prohibited the prophet from mourning in Babylon, so, from
feasting; both were alike unsuitable, while the Comforter was far
away. I pray the Reader to notice in both views the preciousness...
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This verse contains a reason for the preceding, — that every
connection with that people would be accursed. Yet he states one thing
more expressly, — that the time was come in which they were already...
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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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FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... Who is able
to do what he here threatens he will, and which he will do,
notwithstanding his being the God of Israel; their hearts not being
rig...
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For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will
cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the
voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bri...
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_Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting_ God not only
forbade his prophet to go into houses of mourning, but forbade him
also to go into houses where people were wont to eat and drink on
jo...
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For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, who here again
makes announcement of His intention in a most solemn manner. BEHOLD, I
WILL CAUSE TO CEASE OUT OF THIS PLACE IN YOUR EYES, that is,...
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THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH...
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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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And he declares that he laid this injunction upon him as a type that
his countrymen, by such his forbearance, might understand that God in
his providence was about to put an end to all their civil mir...
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Jeremiah 16:9 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel
H3478 cease H7673 (H8688) place...
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THE THIRD SIGN - NON-PARTICIPATION IN CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH
16:8).
The third sign was to absent himself from all celebratory feasts, as
an indication that the future was so black that there was...
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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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Ezekiel 26:13; Hosea 2:11; Isaiah 24:7; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 7:34