"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 all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah."
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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 ar...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY
1-3. See Introduction....
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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 fa...
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כִּ֣י ׀ הִנְנִ֣י קֹרֵ֗א לְ כָֽל
־מִשְׁפְּחֹ֛ות מַמְלְכֹ֥ות צָפֹ֖ונָה
נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֑ה וּ בָ֡אוּ וְֽ נָתְנוּ֩
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
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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
judgm...
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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...
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Jeremiah 1:15 calling H7121 (H8802) families H4940 kingdoms H4467
north H6828 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 come H935 (H8804) one H376
set H5414 (H8804) throne H3678 entrance H6607 gates H8179 Jerusal...
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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...
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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
J...
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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 foreknowl...
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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...
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_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 sign...
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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. Jeremiah 1:4), and the Lord’s promised
protecti...
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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...
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EXPOSITION
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC
OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE MATTERS WHICH HE HAS
TO ANNOUNCE.
JEREMIAH 1:1
There are some indic...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 28:49; Isaiah 22:7; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 10:25;
Jeremiah 25:28; Jeremiah 25:31; Jeremiah 25:32; Jeremiah 25:9;
Jeremiah 33:10;...
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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...