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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 46:20

heifer. Probably an allusion to Apis, the sacred bull.

destruction. piercing. Hebrew. kerez. Occurs only here. Revised Version margin suggests gadfly. If it be so, the attack is on the heifer.

cometh. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "attacketh her".

the north. Though Babylon was on the east, the entry through Palestine was from the north, as Abraham entered it.

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See also Jeremiah 46:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 46:20. _EGYPT_ IS LIKE _A VERY FAIR HEIFER_] Fruitful and useful; but destruction cometh out of the north, from Chaldea. It may be that there is an allusion here to _Isis_, worshipped i...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS LIKE - Or, is. Her god was the steer Apis Jeremiah 46:15, and she is the spouse. BUT DESTRUCTION COMETH; IT COMETH OUT OF THE NORTH - More probably, “a gadfly from the north has come upon her.” Thi...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS CHAPTER 46 Concerning Egypt _ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13) 3. A messa...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Oracles against foreign nations Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's _Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that the whole or a considerable part of the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note to the ch. and summary. Gi. rejects as later all that follows Jeremiah 46:12 as involving repetitions, looseness of structure, and vagueness in style, criticisms which (see note on Je...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    This simile for Egypt may be suggested by Apis the bull god. See on Jeremiah 5:16. but _destruction out of the north is come_ better, as mg. _the gadfly_. This rendering of the word (not found elsewh...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    EGYPT IS LIKE A VERY FAIR HEIFER— _Egypt is a fair and elegant heifer: the drivers shall come upon her from the north:_ Jeremiah 46:21. _For her hired men, who in the midst of her were like fatted bul...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. THE SECOND ORACLE CONCERNING EGYPT Jeremiah 46:13-26 The second poem concerning Egypt points to an invasion of that land by Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 46:13). It is impossible to ascertain the date...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Consequences of Invasion Jeremiah 46:20-26 TRANSLATION (20) A very beautiful heifer is Egypt. A gadfly from the north has come against her. (21) Also her hirelings in the midst of her are like...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. EGYPT IS LIKE AS VERY FAIR HEIFER - wanton, like a fat untamed heifer (). Appropriate to Egypt, where Apis was...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    EGYPT IS LIKE A VERY FAIR HEIFER. — The similitude points, like the “strong one” of Jeremiah 46:15, to the Apis worship of Egypt. The nation is like its god. The figure is continued in the words that...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    עֶגְלָ֥ה יְפֵֽה ־פִיָּ֖ה מִצְרָ֑יִם קֶ֥רֶץ מִ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Egypt [is like] a very (q) fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. (q) They have abundance of all things, and therefore are disobedient and proud....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Goad her. Nabuchodonosor shall subdue the country._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If the Reader will compare scripture with scripture, which is always the most profitable way of reading the word of God; he will find, that what Jeremiah is here engaged in, Isaiah had been before him...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah intimates here, that though Egypt indulged in pleasures, it could not yet escape the vengeance of God. We reminded you yesterday why the Prophets mentioned the wealth, the riches, and the pow...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    EGYPT [IS LIKE] A VERY FAIR HEIFER,.... Like a heifer that has never been under a yoke, it having never been conquered, and brought under the power of another; and like a beautiful, fat, and well fed...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. Ver. 20. _Egypt is like a very fair heifer._] _Vitula elegans,_ a trim bullock; _a_ worshipping Apis the bull...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Egypt is like a very fair heifer_ “In the foregoing verse the prophet compared Egypt to a delicate young woman. Here he resembles her to a fat and well-favoured heifer. In which comparison, as Grotiu...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Egypt is like a very fair heifer, occupying a fine and fertile land and therefore well nourished, BUT DESTRUCTION COMETH; IT COMETH OUT OF THE NORTH, the direction from which the Chaldeans would appro...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SECOND PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    13-28 Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That is, Egypt is now in a thriving, prosperous condition, having not used to be under any yoke, like a heifer that is fair and fat; but she will not be so long, she is but as a beast fatted for the s...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 46:20 Egypt H4714 pretty H3304 heifer H5697 destruction H7171 comes H935 (H8804) comes H935 (H8804) nort

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jeremiah 4...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations. Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations (Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of Charchemish. This se...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28. Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of miscellaneous prophec...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hosea 10:11; Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah 46:10; Jeremia

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A serpent — Egypt is now like an heifer that makes a great bellowing, but the time shall come when she shall make a lesser noise like the hissing of a serpent. With axes — For the Chaldeans shall come...

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