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Verse Jeremiah 13:4. _GO TO EUPHRATES, AND HIDE IT THERE_] Intending
to point out, by this distant place, the _country_ into which they
were to be carried away captive....
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IN A HOLE OF THE ROCK - “In a cleft of the rock.” As there are no
fissured rocks in Babylonia, the place where Jeremiah hid the girdle
must have been somewhere in the upper part of the river....
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CHAPTER 13
Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations
_ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _
2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15)
3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
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THE SYMBOL OF THE WAIST-CLOTH, its removal signifying the rejection
and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet
buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as a...
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Jeremiah's Eighth Prophecy (see book comments for Jeremiah).
Euphrates. On the road to Babylon, this river would be first met with
at Carchemish, then held by the Egyptians (Jeremiah 46:2)....
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Jeremiah 13:1-11. The acted symbol of the linen girdle
This ch. consists of five sections, quite independent of one another.
The first two are in poetic prose, and the remaining in Ḳinah metre.
Three...
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_hide it there_ in such a way that moisture should have full access to
it.
_the rock_ If an actual visit to the Euphrates is meant, the part
referred to "cannot be anywhere near Babylon, where there...
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GO TO EUPHRATES— Many commentators have doubted respecting this
particular, and have not thought it possible that the prophet should
thus have gone backwards and forwards to the banks of the Euphrates...
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VI. THE PRIDE OF THE NATION Jeremiah 13:1-27
Arrogant, willful, stubborn pride was at the root of all Judah's sins.
In chapter thirteen Jeremiah issues five stern warnings concerning
pride and its con...
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Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and
arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
EUPHRATES In order to support the view that Jeremiah's act outward...
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JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE
The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen'
(Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
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קַ֧ח אֶת ־הָ אֵזֹ֛ור אֲשֶׁ֥ר קָנִ֖יתָ
אֲשֶׁ֣ר
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CHAPTER VIII
THE FALL OF PRIDE
Jeremiah 13:1
THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated
by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah
unto me," witho...
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20-25, THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE
Jeremiah 13:1-11
This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some
such striking symbol before them the attention _of the people_ must
have been pow...
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The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah
ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself
and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
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Take the sash that thou hast bought, which [is] upon thy loins, and
arise, go to (a) Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
(a) Because this river was far from Jerusalem, it is evident...
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Euphrates, above 150 leagues distant. Some think this was only to be
done in spirit: but it is generally supposed that the prophet made
this long journey twice. Bochart suggests that Euphrates (Hebrew...
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Jeremiah spared no pains, and thought nothing of his trouble to follow
up the Lord's commissions. Euphrates was no small distance from
Jerusalem: but yet we find thither the Prophet went both to carry...
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Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart,
announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it
were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
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TAKE THE GIRDLE WHICH THOU HAST GOT, WHICH IS UPON THY LOINS,....
Either he is bid to take it off his loins, on which it was; or to go
with it on them; seeing the taking it off does not seem absolutel...
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Take the girdle that thou hast got, which [is] upon thy loins, and
arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.
Ver. 4. _Arise, go to Euphrates._] A river which ran by Babylon, si...
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_Arise, go to Euphrates_ God commanded the prophet to go and hide the
girdle on the bank of the Euphrates, to signify that the Jews should
be carried captive over that river, called _the waters of Bab...
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Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, soiled
now on account of the wear to which it was put, and arise, GO TO
EUPHRATES, the great river which had formerly formed the extreme
no...
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THE SYMBOL OF THE GIRDLE...
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1-11 It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs. And we have
the explanation, ver. Jeremiah 13:9. The people of Israel had been to
God as this girdle. He caused them to cleave to him by the law...
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God having commanded the prophet to procure such a girdle as was
before mentioned, and to tie it upon his loins, he a second time comes
to him, and commandeth him to take this girdle, and carry it to...
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Jeremiah 13:4 Take H3947 (H8798) sash H232 acquired H7069 (H8804)
waist H4975 arise H6965 (H8798
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THE ACTED OUT PROPHECY OF THE LINEN GIRDLE (JEREMIAH 13:1).
YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people
by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is initially to...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with
wine.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make
themselves vessels of wrath fi...
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Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the
Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it
became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
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_Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the
place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was
profitable for nothing._
THE CAST-OFF GIRDLE
In many instances...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:2 God orders Jeremiah to place
underclothing in a rocky place. Of course, it gets ruined by the
weather.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as
determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler,
Hend.,...
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EXPOSITION
The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely
commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching
rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put
it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of
the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
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Jeremiah 51:63; Jeremiah 51:64; Micah 4:10; Psalms 137:1...