Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Jeremiah 13:5
So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
No JFB commentary on this verse.
CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
THE SYMBOL OF THE WAIST-CLOTH, its removal signifying the rejection and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as a...
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Jeremiah 13:1-11. The acted symbol of the linen girdle This ch. consists of five sections, quite independent of one another. The first two are in poetic prose, and the remaining in Ḳinah metre. Three...
VI. THE PRIDE OF THE NATION Jeremiah 13:1-27 Arrogant, willful, stubborn pride was at the root of all Judah's sins. In chapter thirteen Jeremiah issues five stern warnings concerning pride and its con...
JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
וָ אֵלֵ֕ךְ וָ אֶטְמְנֵ֖הוּ בִּ פְרָ֑ת כַּ
CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto me," witho...
20-25, THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE Jeremiah 13:1-11 This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some such striking symbol before them the attention _of the people_ must have been pow...
The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
Jeremiah spared no pains, and thought nothing of his trouble to follow up the Lord's commissions. Euphrates was no small distance from Jerusalem: but yet we find thither the Prophet went both to carry...
_THE SIN OF PRIDE_ ‘Be not proud.’ Jeremiah 13:5 The heart is not pure that is not cleansed from pride. I. HOW LIGHTLY WE TREAT THIS SIN OF PRIDE!—What is pride? It is the sin that leads me to loo...
Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart, announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
SO I WENT AND HID IT BY EUPHRATES,.... Or, "in" o it; in a hole of the rock, upon the banks of it: AS THE LORD COMMANDED ME: all this seems to be done not really, but visionally; it can hardly be tho...
So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. Ver. 5. _So I went and hid it by Euphrates._] In the cliff of a rock, where it might lie dry, never once asking the reason. This was simp...
So I went and hid it by Euphrates, as the Lord commanded me....
THE SYMBOL OF THE GIRDLE...
1-11 It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs. And we have the explanation, ver. Jeremiah 13:9. The people of Israel had been to God as this girdle. He caused them to cleave to him by the law...
Most think that Jeremiah did this but in a vision, for it was a very long journey for the prophet to take to go from Anathoth or Jerusalem as far as Euphrates. Jeremiah was obedient to God's command,...
Jeremiah 13:5 went H3212 (H8799) hid H2934 (H8799) Euphrates H6578 LORD H3068 commanded H6680 (H8765)...
THE ACTED OUT PROPHECY OF THE LINEN GIRDLE (JEREMIAH 13:1). YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is initially to...
CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with wine. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make themselves vessels of wrath fi...
Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
_Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing._ THE CAST-OFF GIRDLE In many instances...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:2 God orders Jeremiah to place underclothing in a rocky place. Of course, it gets ruined by the weather. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, Hend.,...
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
2 Timothy 2:3; Acts 26:19; Acts 26:20; Exodus 39:42; Exodus 39:43;...
So — Most think Jeremiah did this in a vision, for it was a very long journey from Anathoth to Euphrates....