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FOR THE SWORD OF THE ENEMY - literally, “for to the enemy a sword;
i. e., for the enemy is armed,” he has a commission from God to
execute judgment. See Jeremiah 12:12; Isaiah 10:5, and Psalms 17:13
n...
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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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FEAR IS ON EVERY SIDE. terror is round about. Compare Jeremiah 20:3;
Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29; Lamentations 2:22....
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The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
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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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Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of
the enemy and fear is on every side.
He addresses "the daughter of Zion" (Jeremiah 6:23); caution to the
citizens of Jerusalem not...
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6:25 side. (g-24) Heb. _ Magor-missabib_ . see ch. 20.3....
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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THE FIELD. — _i.e., the open country._ To pass beyond the walls of
the beleaguered city would be full of danger. The warning has its
parallel in Matthew 24:17. In the same chapter we find also an echo...
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אַל־_תֵּֽצְאוּ֙_† הַ שָּׂדֶ֔ה וּ בַ †
דֶּ֖רֶךְ אַל־_תֵּלֵ֑כוּ_† כִּ֚י
חֶ֣רֶב לְ אֹיֵ֔ב מָגֹ֖ור...
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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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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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He confirms the previous verse. For the Jews, as it has been said,
regarded all threatenings as nothing: it was hence necessary that they
should be taught, not by words only, but be constrained to fea...
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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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GO NOT FORTH INTO THE FIELD,.... Either for pleasure, or for business;
to take a walk in it for the air, or to till it, plough, sow, or reap;
but keep within the city and its walls, there being danger...
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Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the
enemy [and] fear [is] on every side.
Ver. 25. _Go not out into the field._] Since there is "no peace to him
that goeth out, nor...
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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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GO NOT FORTH INTO THE FIELD, NOR WALK BY THE WAY; expressing the great
danger that there would be every where, there would be no stirring out
of their fenced cities or houses, JEREMIAH 8:14, but great...
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Jeremiah 6:25 out H3318 (H8799) field H7704 walk H3212 (H8799) way
H1870 sword H2719 enemy H341 (H8802) Fear H4032 side H5439
Go not - Jeremiah 4:5, Jeremiah 8:14, Jeremiah 14:18;...
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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 6:25 Jerusalemites dare not leave the city
for fear of capture (Lamentations 4:18). TERROR IS ON EVERY SIDE. A
common phrase in Jeremiah 1:1 describing the experience of inva...
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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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2 Chronicles 15:5; Isaiah 1:20; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 20:10;
Jeremiah 20:3; Jeremiah 20:4; Jeremiah 4:10; Jeremiah 4:5; Jeremiah
49:29;...
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Go not forth — Expressing the great danger that there would be
everywhere....