JEREMIAH'S FOURTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE WINE CUP OF GOD'S FURY We have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih's reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, between the news of the victory of Nebuchadnezzar over Pharaoh-Necho and the Egyptians at Carchemish (6... [ Continue Reading ]
THE THREE AND TWENTIETH YEAR] of Jeremiah's prophetic ministry.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS] i.e. your idols. 8-14. Babylon's victory and subsequent overthrow.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAMILIES OF THE NORTH] the races near the Tigris and Euphrates. MY SERVANT] God's agent in carrying out His purposes of chastisement.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVENTY YEARS] for the definite number cp. Jeremiah 29:10. The Jewish love for round numbers would lead them to consider the number seventy used in such a connexion as standing for any approximation to that amount. The captivity seems to have been, in fact, for somewhat less than seventy years. Imm... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THEM] viz. of the Chaldeans. As they have done to the people of God, so shall it be done to them. 15-29. The wine cup of God's fury to be drunk by the nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
WINE CUP] representing disaster, so often in OT.: cp. Jeremiah 49:12; Jeremiah 51:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE MOVED] RV 'reel to and fro.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN TOOK I THE CUP] not, however, in a literal sense, the cup being itself only figurative.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS _it is_ THIS DAY] a later insertion by Jeremiah or another as comment on the fulfilment.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MINGLED PEOPLE] those who had attached themselves to a nation without being connected with it by blood. UZ] Job's country near Idumea (Lamentations 4:21). ASHKELON, etc.] the chief cities of Philistia. AZZAH] RV 'Gaza.'... [ Continue Reading ]
ISLES] RV 'isle,' RM 'coastland,' a phrase denoting generally the region W. of Palestine, with special reference to the Grecian Archipelago.... [ Continue Reading ]
For DEDAN see on Jeremiah 49:8. TEMA and BUZ (to which Elihu belonged, Job 32:2) were neighbouring Arabian tribes. UTMOST CORNERS] see on Jeremiah 9:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZIMRI] quite unknown.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHESHACH] Sheshach stands in all probability for Babel (or Babylon). The Jews had a species of cypher writing, the form of which consisted in substituting the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet for the first, the last but one for the second, and so on. Omitting vowels, we find that thus Sh, Sh, Ch w... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON HIS HABITATION] RV 'against His fold,' i.e. His people.... [ Continue Reading ]
PLEAD] in a legal sense, judge.... [ Continue Reading ]
COASTS] RV 'uttermost parts.'... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEPHERDS] i.e. RULERS. LIKE A PLEASANT VESSEL] fair but fragile.... [ Continue Reading ]
HABITATIONS ARE CUT DOWN] RV 'folds are brought to silence.'... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE LION] The Lord IS gone forth in wrath to lay waste.... [ Continue Reading ]