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II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE
PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF
JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING
CHAPTER 14
The Great Drought...
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JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S
CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but
some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
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YEA. For....
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_the hind_ For her affection for her young cp. Proverbs 5:19, and for
ancient writers" testimony to it see Bochart, _Hierozoicon_, Bk. 3 ch.
17....
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CHAPTER TEN
NATIONAL DISTRESS AND PROPHETIC DISCOURAGEMENT
Jeremiah 14:1 to Jeremiah 17:27
Sometime during the ministry of Jeremiah a terrible drought or series
of droughts (the Hebrew word is plura...
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Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there
was no grass.
YEA, THE HIND ALSO CALVED IN THE FIELD, AND FORSOOK IT, BECAUSE THERE
WAS NO GRASS - the brute creation is reduc...
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1-6. Description of the drought....
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YEA. — Better, _For,_ as the Hebrew is usually translated. What
follows gives the reason of the terror which has come upon the people.
Each region has its representative instance of misery. The hind o...
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כִּ֤י גַם ־אַיֶּ֨לֶת֙ בַּ † שָּׂדֶ֔ה
יָלְדָ֖ה...
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CHAPTER IX
THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS
Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?)
VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these
Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
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We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the
account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections:
prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
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_Field. They prefer places frequented by men. (Pliny, [Natural
History?] viii. 32.)_...
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We have here an account of the famine, which by the parallel history
took place in the reign of Jehoiakim; probably just before the
captivity. Jeremiah had mourned for the good king Josiah; see 2
Chro...
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Jeremiah now comes to animals: he said before, that men would be
visited with thirst, and then that the ground would become dry, so
theft husbandmen would be ashamed; he now says that the wild asses a...
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Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The
desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared.
But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
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YEA, THE HIND ALSO CALVED IN THE FIELD,.... Or brought forth her young
in the field; of which see Job 39:1, and which they sometimes did
through fear, particularly when frightened with thunder and lig...
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Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook [it], because
there was no grass.
Ver. 5. _Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it._] The
loving hind; Pro 5:19 _Alioqui studiosa su...
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_And their nobles_, &c. This scarcity of water afflicted not poor
persons only, who had not such means of supplying their necessities as
the rich; but the greatest among them, who sent _their little o...
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Yea, the hind also calved in the field and forsook it, abandoning her
offspring, although noted for her affection toward her young, BECAUSE
THERE WAS NO GRASS, no green thing to sustain life....
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THE PROPHET INTERCEDES FOR THE FIRST TIME...
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1-9 The people were in tears. But it was rather the cry of their
trouble, and of their sin, than of their prayer. Let us be thankful
for the mercy of water, that we may not be taught to value it by
f...
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Hinds use not to get their food in fields, but upon the mountains and
in wildernesses; but the drought was such, that these wild creatures
came into the lower grounds, nearer the habitations of men th...
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Jeremiah 14:5 deer H365 birth H3205 (H8804) field H7704 left H5800
(H8800) grass H1877...
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THE DEPTHS OF THE SERIES OF DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1).
The plural for ‘droughts' suggests that there had been a series of
droughts, probably over a number of years. Such droughts did occur in
Canaan fr...
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THE LESSON OF THE GREAT DROUGHTS (JEREMIAH 14:1).
As a preliminary warning of what is coming YHWH sends a great drought
on Judah with the result that the cisterns are empty, the springs are
dry, the p...
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In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient
prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to
deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
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CONTENTS: Message on the drought.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make
even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
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Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied,
as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
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_They came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their
vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their
heads._
THE DROUGHT OF NATURE, THE RAIN OF GRACE, AND THE LESSO...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This
and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others
connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and
synchr...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They
describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see
verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth
(Jeremiah 14:1).
For a drought filled the land.
Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground;
and the cry of...
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Job 39:1; Psalms 29:9...
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The hind — Hinds use not to get their food in fields, but upon
mountains and in wildernesses, but the drought was such, that these
creatures came into the lower grounds, and there brought forth their...