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Verse Jeremiah 14:18. _IF I GO FORTH INTO THE FIELD, THEN BEHOLD THE
SLAIN_ _WITH THE SWORD_] Every place presents frightful spectacles;
the wounded, the dying, the starving, and the slain; none to b...
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II. THE PROPHET'S MINISTRY BEFORE THE FALL OF JERUSALEM, THE
PROPHECIES OF JUDGMENT AND RESTORATION, THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF
JEREMIAH, HIS FAITHFULNESS AND HIS SUFFERING
CHAPTER 14
The Great Drought...
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JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S
CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but
some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
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_them that are sick with famine_ lit. as mg. _the sicknesses of
famine_.
_go about_ mg. _traffick_. Such is the sense of the Heb. verb
elsewhere, e.g. Genesis 34:10; Genesis 34:21, but the correspondi...
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See introductory summary to section....
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THE PROPHET AND THE PRIEST GO ABOUT, &C.— Jeremiah is here
manifestly describing what he saw when he entered the city; namely,
men sick and worn out with famine; and among these even the _priests_
and...
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C. The Prophet's Second Petition Rejected Jeremiah 14:13-18
TRANSLATION
(13) And I said, Ah Lord GOD, Behold, the prophets are saying to them,
You shall not see the sword, nor shall you have famine;...
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14:18 not. (b-42) Or 'wander about in the land, and they know not
[what to do].'...
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1-6. Description of the drought....
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THEM THAT ARE SICK WITH FAMINE. — Literally, with even a more awful
force, as summing all individual sufferings in one collective unity,
_the sickness of famine — _the pestilence that follows on
starv...
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אִם ־יָצָ֣אתִי הַ שָּׂדֶ֗ה וְ הִנֵּה֙
חַלְלֵי
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CHAPTER IX
THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS
Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?)
VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these
Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
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We now come to the second division of the Book, that containing the
account of the prophet's ministry. This falls into three sections:
prophecies before the fall of Jerusalem (14-39), prophecies after...
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If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword!
and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with
famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about (m) into a l...
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_Famine. Under Jechonias many were slain, and the chiefs carried into
captivity, 4 Kings xxiv. 12. --- Into. Hebrew, "through the land, and
are ignorant." Chaldean, "they apply to their business, to e...
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Faithful ministers cannot but feel grief at the conduct of false
teachers, who prophecy smooth things, and prophecy deceit. Jeremiah
had to encounter with many in his days, of this description and no...
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He confirms the same thing in other words, not on account of the
obscurity of what he had said, but because he knew that he was
speaking to the deaf, or that such was their sloth, that they needed
man...
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Chapter 14 refers to a famine which took place in the land. The
desolation of Jerusalem by the sword and by famine is again declared.
But observe here the touching intercession of Jeremiah 14:7-9; and...
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IF I GO FORTH INTO THE FIELD,.... Without the city, where was the camp
of the enemy besieging it
THEN BEHOLD THE SLAIN WITH THE SWORD! the sword of the enemy; who by
sallying out of the city upon the...
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If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword!
and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with
famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land...
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_Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them_ Either, 1st, The word
spoken above; the threatenings denounced in the last two verses
against the false prophets and the people, _the deceivers and the
d...
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The Lord Refuses Jeremiah's Request...
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If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword!
and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with
famine! no matter where he turns, the prophet's eyes encounter the...
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GO ABOUT INTO A LAND THAT THEY KNOW NOT:
Or, make merchandise against a land, and men acknowledge it not,
Jeremiah 5:31...
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17-22 Jeremiah acknowledged his own sins, and those of the people,
but pleaded with the Lord to remember his covenant. In their distress
none of the idols of the Gentiles could help them, nor could t...
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OLBHeb;
The prophet is by God directed to speak still of the calamities of
this people as a thing past, though yet to come, according to the
usual style of prophetical writings; and to tell them, that...
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Jeremiah 14:18 out H3318 (H8804) field H7704 slain H2491 sword H2719
enter H935 (H8804) city H5892 sick...
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YHWH INFORMS JEREMIAH THAT HE WILL NO LONGER HEAR HIS PEOPLE BUT
RATHER INTENDS TO CONTINUE TO VISIT THEM WITH THE SWORD AND WITH
FAMINE (JEREMIAH 14:11).
Once again we learn with something of a shock...
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In some respects, Jeremiah is one of the greatest of the ancient
prophets, for he had most sorrowful task to perform. He had not to
deliver a message full of Evangelical comfort, like that of Isaiah;...
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CONTENTS: Message on the drought.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Man's sins bring those judgments upon the earth which make
even the inferior creatures to groan. There will come a time when...
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Jeremiah 14:3. _They found no water._ The latter rain had been denied,
as in Jeremiah 3:3; and as Moses had foretold. Deuteronomy 11:17;...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY of the Chapter. This
and chapter 15 form one prophecy (although Lange, Keil, and others
connect Chapter s 14 to 17, regarding them as interwoven and
synchr...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter must be read in connection with the following one. They
describe chiefly Jeremiah's twofold attempt at intercession (see
verses 7-9 and 19-22)—a tender and appealing attempt in...
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The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the deaRuth
(Jeremiah 14:1).
For a drought filled the land.
Judah mourns, and the gates languish; they are black upon the ground;
and the cry of...
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2 Peter 2:3; Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 28:64; Ezekiel 7:15;...