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RAISED - Or, awakened, to undertake distant expeditions.
THE SIDES OF THE EARTH - Or ends, the most distant regions (see
Jeremiah 25:32)....
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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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THE FOE FROM THE NORTH is again described (_cf._ Jeremiah 5:15) in his
advance against Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:22). Its inhabitants utter their
dismay (wax feeble, Jeremiah 6:24; Heb. are slack). The pr...
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THE SIDES, &C. Idiom for. great distance....
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_from the north country_ The reference, originally at any rate, was to
the Scythians. See on Jeremiah 1:14....
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BEHOLD, A PEOPLE, &C.— The Chaldeans are here again described as in
chap. Jeremiah 5:15, &c. a distant nation, violent, cruel, armed with
bows and spears, and well mounted: Instead of _sides of the ea...
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5. _Description of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:22-26)
TRANSLATION
(22) Thus said the LORD: Behold, a people is about to come from a
north land, a great nation shall be aroused from the uttermost parts
of t...
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Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country,
and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
A PEOPLE COMETH FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, AND A GREAT NATION SHAL...
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY... — THE WORDS point, as in Jeremiah 1:13, to
the Chaldæan, perhaps, also, to the Scythian, invasion. So the
“north quarters” are used in Ezekiel 38:6; Ezekiel 38:15; Ezekiel
39...
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כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנֵּ֛ה עַ֥ם
בָּ֖א מֵ אֶ֣רֶץ צָפֹ֑ון וְ גֹ֣וי
גָּדֹ֔ול יֵעֹ֖ור מִ...
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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, Behold, a people cometh from the (s) north
country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the
earth.
(s) From Babylon by Dan, which was north of Jerusalem....
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_North. As Babylon lay with respect to Jerusalem, (Worthington) or
rather to the east. (Haydock)_...
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The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way
of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are
as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
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It was no useless repetition when the Prophet said so often that _God
said. _He might have said only, “Behold, a nation shall come from
the north;” but he premises by saying that he derived this messa...
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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, BEHOLD, A PEOPLE COMETH FROM THE NORTH
COUNTRY,.... The Assyrians from Babylon, which lay north of Judea, as
in Jeremiah 1:14:
AND A GREAT NATION SHALL BE RAISED; that is, by the...
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Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country,
and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Ver. 22. _Thus saith the Lord._] It is not in vain that this is so...
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_Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people_ I will suffer
such things to be laid in their way as shall be the occasion of their
destruction. Or, I will bring calamities upon them, by whic...
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THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for
their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator;
but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
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Now the prophet is showing what these destructive stumbling-blocks
shall be, of which he had prophesied forty years already, and yet they
would not be warned. The north country: see JEREMIAH 6:1. A GR...
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Jeremiah 6:22 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 people H5971 comes H935
(H8802) north H6828 country H776 great H1419 nation H1471 raised H5782
(H8735) parts H3411 earth H776
a people - Jeremiah 6:1, Jerem...
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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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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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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:22 GREAT NATION. Babylon. THE FARTHEST
PARTS OF THE EARTH. Babylon’s army had outposts all over the ancient
world. This army has NO MERCY. Its HORSES are so numerous that t...
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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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Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 25:9; Jeremiah
5:15; Jeremiah 50:41; Jeremiah 6:1...
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Behold — God shall stir up the Chaldeans like a great storm. The
sides — The uttermost parts of the Babylonian territories....