Jeremiah 19:1
ANCIENTS] RV 'elders.'... [ Continue Reading ]
ANCIENTS] RV 'elders.'... [ Continue Reading ]
In Jeremiah 18 the special lesson was the power of God to alter at any moment the destinies of a people. Here, on the other hand, it is taught that the time may come when the only alteration must take the form of a breaking or overthrow. 1-13. Figure of the broken vessel.... [ Continue Reading ]
VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM] see on Jeremiah 7:31. EAST GATE] Hebrew is obscure. RM 'gate of potsherds,' perhaps because refuse of this sort was thrown there.... [ Continue Reading ]
KINGS] the whole dynasty with their accumulated transgressions.... [ Continue Reading ]
ESTRANGED THIS PLACE] i.e. alienated it from the worship of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOPHET] see on Jeremiah 7:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN HISSING] see on Jeremiah 18:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
This was fulfilled in the Chaldean siege of Jerusalem: see Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 4:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
TILL _there be_ NO PLACE TO BURY] see on Jeremiah 7:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
The flat roofs were easily used as gathering places: see e.g. Judges 16:27; Nehemiah 8:16; Zephaniah 1:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
This v. as introducing another address should commence a new paragraph ending with Jeremiah 20:6.... [ Continue Reading ]