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Verse Jeremiah 6:16. _THUS SAITH THE LORD, STAND YE IN THE WAYS, AND
SEE_] Let us observe the metaphor. A _traveller_ is going to a
particular city; he comes to a place where the road divides into
se...
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The sense is: God’s prophet has declared that a great national
calamity is at hand. “Make inquiries; stand in the ways; ask the
passers by. Your country was once prosperous and blessed. Try to learn
w...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)
Jeremiah 6:1. The children of B...
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Jeremiah 6:16. OBEDIENCE MORE THAN SACRIFICE. Yahweh vainly bade the
people stand at the parting of the ways (Hebrew, by the ways), and
seek the ancient road to prosperity, that they may find repose f...
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STAND YE, &C.. gracious appeal to avoid the threatened calamity, as in
Jeremiah 2:2.
OLD PATHS. Compare Jeremiah 18:15.
GOOD. right.
FIND REST. Compare Matthew 11:29; Matthew 11:30. where. like
inv...
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_saith_ rather, SAID, in His frequent remonstrances.
Of the branching paths the old established one will prove that which
alone ye may follow with divine sanction.
_the good way_ lit. _the way of th...
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DISCOURSE: 1040
THE GOOD OLD WAY
Jeremiah 6:16. _Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see,
and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein,
and ye shall find rest for you...
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STAND YE IN THE WAYS— "Imitate the traveller, when at a loss which
way to direct his steps; inquire in what way the patriarchs of old
walked: imitate their practices, wherein you will find true comfor...
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4. _Prescription for deliverance_ (Jeremiah 6:16-21)
TRANSLATION
(16) Thus said the LORD: Stand along side the ways and observe. Ask
for the old ways where the good way is and walk in it and you will...
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Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find
rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein....
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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STAND YE IN THE WAYS. — In the prophet’s mind the people were as a
traveller who has taken a self-chosen path, and finds that it leads
him to a place of peril. Is it not well that they should stop and...
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כֹּ֣ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֡ה עִמְדוּ֩ עַל
־דְּרָכִ֨ים וּ רְא֜וּ וְ שַׁאֲל֣וּ ׀
לִ נְתִבֹ֣ות עֹולָ֗ם אֵי...
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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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This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
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Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
(o) old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall
find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [in i...
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_Paths, of patriarchs, and of Moses. Avoid novelty in religion.
(Calmet) --- This advice is very applicable to the present generation.
(Haydock)_...
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This is a beautiful verse, read with an eye to Christ: who is both the
new and the living way; and also the old path to dwell in, being the
Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Jesus Christ th...
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The Prophet teaches us here that the fault of the people could not be
extenuated as though they had sinned through ignorance; for they had
been warned more than necessary by God. The same sentiment is...
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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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THUS SAITH THE LORD, STAND YE IN THE WAYS, AND SEE,.... These are the
words of the Lord to the people, whom he would have judge for
themselves, and not be blindly led by the false prophets and priests...
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Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall
find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therei...
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_Stand ye in the ways_, &c. He now turns his speech to the people, and
gives them counsel; by a metaphor taken from travellers, who, being in
doubt of their way, stand still, and consider, whether the...
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Thus saith the Lord, rather, "Thus has Jehovah spoken," namely, in the
ancient days, when He had shown the children of His chosen people the
way of salvation. STAND YE IN THE WAYS AND SEE, looking aro...
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9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or
rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and
wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin by...
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Having told the false prophets their doom, he now turns his speech to
the people, and gives them counsel; for he rather propounds than
commands, by a metaphor taken from travellers, that being in doub...
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Jeremiah 6:16 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 Stand H5975 (H8798) ways
H1870 see H7200 (H8799) ask H7592 (H8798) old H5769 paths H5410 good
H2896 way H1870 walk H3212 (H8799) find H4672 (H8798) rest H477...
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IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES
THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1).
Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had
given the rea...
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Jeremiah 6:16
I. We have in this text excellent general advice. Jeremiah says,
"Stand and see and ask." I take these words to be a call to thought
and consideration. Now, to set men thinking is the g...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
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Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
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_Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is
the good way, and walk therein._
THE GOOD OLD WAY
Were you called together to listen to the present preacher only,
courtesy might...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:16 THE ANCIENT PATHS. The way of
faithfulness revealed to Moses and the earlier prophets.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
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EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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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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Acts 17:11; Colossians 2:6; Deuteronomy 32:7; Hebrews 11:2; Hebrews
12:1; Hebrews 6:12; Isaiah 2:5; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 30:21; Isaiah
8:20;...
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Stand — He now turns his speech to the people, and gives them
counsel; by a metaphor taken from travellers, that being in doubt of
their way, stand still, and consider, whether the direction they have...