JEREMIAH'S EIGHTEENTH PROPHECY (see book comments for Jeremiah). Given in reign of Jehoiakim to Jeremiah. Declared, after thirteen years, in fourth year of Zedekiah: i.e. in 485. Compare Jeremiah 26:12.Jeremiah 27 and Jeremiah 28 were written by Jeremiah, or at his dictation. Compare "me", Jeremiah... [ Continue Reading ]
PUT THEM, &C. This was literally done, as. prophetic symbol; and at that time prophetic of what was to happen in the reign of Zedekiah, eleven years later.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ to emphasize each respectively. WHICH come. that are coming. Part. _Poel,_ as in Genesis 37:19; Genesis 41:29; Genesis 41:35.Genesis 4:16; Genesis 6:22. Gen 7:32. Genesis 9:25; Genesis 16:14; Genesis 23:5;... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 7:3. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE MADE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 1:1). App-92. THE GROUND. Hebrew the face of the ground. Figure of speech _Pleonasm._ App-6. Some codices read "the face of all the ground". GROUND. earth. GREAT POWER... OUTSTRETCHED ARM. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 6:6; Deuteronomy 4:34; Deut... [ Continue Reading ]
NEBUCHADNEZZAR. Some codices spell it "Nebuchadrezzar". MY SERVANT. Compare Jeremiah 25:9. See Daniel 2:37; Daniel 2:38.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIM, AND HIS SON, AND HIS SON'S SON: i.e. Evil Merodach, Nergelissar, and Nabonidus, in whose seventeenth year Babylon was taken by Cyrus. App-67. THE VERY TIME. the appointed end. GREAT KINGS: i.e. the kings of Persia and Media (Daniel 2:39).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SAME. him. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle. SWORD... FAMINE... PESTILENCE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:25; Leviticus 26:26; Deuteronomy 28:21). App-92. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
DIVINERS, &C. These were their heathen guides. ENCHANTERS. observers of the clouds. SORCERERS. These were mediums and necromancers.... [ Continue Reading ]
I SPAKE: i.e. thirteen years after this prophecy came to him. See note on Jeremiah 27:1. TO ZEDEKIAH. It is not stated whether he ever addressed the two other kings. Jehoahaz and Zedekiah were the sons of Hamutal; Jehoiakim was the son of the proud Zebudah (2 Kings 23:36). Compare Jeremiah 13:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY... ? Figure of speech _Asterismos._ BY. Some codices, with Aramaean, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and by", thus completing the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ Compare Jeremiah 27:8. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE PRIESTS. Probably in the Temple. Compare Jeremiah 28:1. BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ THE VESSELS: which were taken away by Nebuchadnezzar in the reigns of Jehoiakim and Jeconiah (2 Kings 24:13. 2Ch 36:7, 2 Chronicles 36:10; Daniel 1:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE. exists; or, he and remain. Hebrew. _yesh._ Compare Jeremiah 31:6; Jeremiah 31:16; Jeremiah 31:17, and see notes on Proverbs 8:21; Proverbs 18:24. THE LORD OF HOSTS. Jehovah Zebaoth. See note on Jeremiah 1:6; 1 Samuel 1:3. AT. Some codices, with three early printed editions, omit this "at".... [ Continue Reading ]
REMAIN. Probably because they were too heavy and cumbrous. CITY. So the reading of Ben-Asher; but Ben-Naphtali reads "land". These were the two rival critics of the Hebrew text in the tenth century A.D. who furnished the vowel-points. Ben-Asher's work was done at Tiberias in 827 "from the destructi... [ Continue Reading ]
JECONIAH. Compare Jeremiah 24:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read this "in" in the text.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN WILL. BRING THEM UP. Fulfilled by Cyrus (Ezra 1:7; Ezra 5:13; Ezra 5:14).... [ Continue Reading ]