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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 1:15

Shall set every one his throne, etc.] This prediction was literally fulfilled (see Jeremiah 39:3). The function of administering justice was exercised by the king in person, and the neighbourhood of the city gate was the ordinary place at which trials were held. Here then the rulers of the invader's army will sit in judgment on the conquered people.

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See also Jeremiah 1:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 1:15. _SHALL SET EVERY ONE HIS THRONE AT THE ENTERING OF THE_ _GATES_] As the gates of the cities were the ordinary places where justice was administered, so the enemies of Jerusalem a...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL CALL - I am calling. The judgment has begun. God is summoning His hosts to the war. FAMILIES - The various races by which the provinces of the Babylonian empire were populated. THEY SHALL SET...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 1 The Call of the Prophet _ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _ 2. The divin...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TWO VISIONS OF JUDGMENT. These form a separate experience, and imply some change of standpoint, since it is now the judgment of Judah through the instrumentality of the nations which is presented...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ALL. Frequently put (as here) by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), App-6, for the principal or greater part. SET, &C. Where the kings of Judah had sat to judge and rule. Fulfilled in Jere...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah's call The passage will fall into four sections. (i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah 1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful to p...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _all the families of the kingdoms_ Probably we should read (with LXX) _all the kingdoms_, "families" in that case being in the first instance an explanatory gloss, afterwards taken into the text. _the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In 2 Chronicles 6:41-42 the words of the Psalm are quoted at the close of Solomon's prayer at the Dedication of the Temple, and some commentators suppose that in Psalms 132:8 ff. the Psalmist carries...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The symbol of the caldron 13. _a seething caldron_ An ordinary sight in daily life conveys a message to the prophet. In this second symbol the character of the future in store for the nation is more c...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THEY SHALL SET EVERY ONE HIS THRONE, &C.— The allusion here is to the ancient custom of setting and judging at the gates: "I will send against Jerusalem the princes, to judge, to condemn, to punis...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. THE CALL CONFIRMED Jeremiah 1:11-19 TRANSLATION (11) And the word of the LORD came unto me saying, What are you looking at, Jeremiah? And I replied, I am looking at a rod of almond. (12) Then the...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL CALL. — Literally, _I am calling._ The evil is not merely future, but is actually begun. ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE NORTH. — In the Hebrew the words are in apposition, _all the fam...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י ׀ הִנְנִ֣י קֹרֵ֗א לְ כָֽל ־מִשְׁפְּחֹ֛ות...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE CALL AND CONSECRATION IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more detailed study of his writin...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER Jeremiah 1:1-19 God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...

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

    The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry. The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _North. The tributary kings were forced to attend, Judith ii. 7., and 3 Kings xx. 1. --- About. The princes thus took Sedecias, and sent him to Reblatha, chap. xxxix. 3. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The Lord was pleased, we find, both by word and by vision, to confirm the Prophet in his new appointment. And the Lord which raised up to the Prophet's mind these images, took care to instruct his min...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    This verse contains an explanation of the last; for God more dearly and more specifically expresses what he had before referred to — that the evil would come from the north. He says that he would be t...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR, LO, I WILL CALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE NORTH, SAITH THE LORD,.... Which belonged unto and were under the jurisdiction of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and the "call" of them, a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against...

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

    _For lo, I will call_ Or, _I am upon calling_, or, _about to call; all the families of the kingdoms of the north_ By these seem to be meant the different nations who were subject to Nabopolassar and N...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For, lo, I will call all the families, the tribes or clans, OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE NORTH, SAITH THE LORD, all the great chieftains of the Chaldeans uniting in an effort to overthrow Judah; AND THEY SH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-19 God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond-tree, which is more forward in the spring than any other, represented the speedy approach of judg...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL CALL; or, I am upon calling, it is at hand, I am about to incline the northern countries to join together in this work, JEREMIAH 6:22, JEREMIAH 10:22 25:9,26. THE FAMILIES, or kindreds, viz. th...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 1:15 calling H7121 (H8802) families H4940 kingdoms H4467 north H6828 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 come...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH GIVES JEREMIAH TWO SIGNS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE CERTAINTY OF YHWH'S WATCHFULNESS OVER HIS PURPOSES, AND THE SECOND A SIGN WHICH DEMONSTRATED THE JUDGMENTS THAT WERE TO COME FROM THE NORTH BECAUSE...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SIGN OF THE BOILING CAULDRON (JEREMIAH 1:13). The second sign was that of a cauldron full of boiling liquid ready to be poured out on Judah from the north, a vivid picture of threatening judgment...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod and seething pot. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim. CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature, whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I see a rod of an almond tree._ TREE EMBLEMS The Hebrew word for almond signifies the “waker,” in allusion to its being the first tree to wake to life in the winter. The word also contains the signi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s call and message (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4, _sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would make the date of the “thirteen...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah. About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 28:49; Isaiah 22:7; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 10:25;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The families — Those nations that were under one lord. Kingdoms — The Babylonians, and their assistants; the Medes also being in confederacy with them, whose king's daughter Nebuchadnezzar married. Hi...

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