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Verse Jeremiah 5:16. _THEIR QUIVER_ IS _AN OPEN SEPULCHRE_] They are
such exact archers as never to miss their mark; every arrow is sure to
slay one man....
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THEIR QUIVER - See Jeremiah 4:29, note....
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CHAPTER 5
_ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _
2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10)
3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19)
4. The horrible thing (Jeremiah 5:30)
Jeremiah...
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THE COMING OF THE FOE. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyard
of Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejecting
His warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejected...
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See summary at beginning of section....
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3. _Treacherous unbelief_ (Jeremiah 5:10-18)
TRANSLATION
(10) Go up against her rows and destroy, but do not make a full end;
Remove her shoots for they do not belong to the LORD. (11) For the
house...
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Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
OPEN SEPULCHRE - (cf. ). Their quiver is all-devouring, as the grave
opened to receive the dead: as many as are the arrows, so many a...
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1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
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AN OPEN SEPULCHRE. — Every arrow in the quivers of the Chaldæan
bowmen was to be as a messenger of death, a blast or pestilence from
the grave....
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אַשְׁפָּתֹ֖ו כְּ קֶ֣בֶר פָּת֑וּחַ
כֻּלָּ֖ם גִּבֹּורִֽים׃...
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages
of prophecy, two thing...
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Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now
carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter
corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
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Their quiver [is] as an (p) open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.
(p) Who will kill many with their arrows....
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Reader! do as the Psalmist did, after reading these verses, and say, I
will sing of mercy and judgment. And let your song as his was, be
dedicated to the Lord: for to the Lord alone the praise and glo...
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The Prophet had already threatened the Jews with the vengeance of God,
and had said that the ministers and executioners of it would be the
Chaldeans: he now continues the same subject, and says that t...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto t...
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THEIR QUIVER IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE,.... The Chaldeans used bows and
arrows in fighting; and the quiver is a case for arrows; and the
phrase denotes, that their arrows would do great execution, and be
v...
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Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.
Ver. 16. _Their quiver is an open sepulchre._] As holding arrows that
wound deadly, and that shall despatch many, being drenched in...
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_Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts_ The prophet now, in the
name of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels,
ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calculat...
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FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
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10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so
strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind.
Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that...
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QUIVER; collectively expressed for quivers; a synecdoche for the whole
military preparations, and a metonymy of the containing for the
contained, viz. the arrows that will be shot out of them, called...
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Jeremiah 5:16 quiver H827 open H6605 (H8803) tomb H6913 men H1368
Psalms 5:9; Isaiah 5:28; Romans 3:13...
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YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH
5:1).
Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in
Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
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Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a
full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For
the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very
tre...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against
them and the judgments threatened.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
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Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear
falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not
sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his
perf...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation
leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
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EXPOSITION
Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of
Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate
its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
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Isaiah 5:28; Psalms 5:9; Romans 3:13...