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TURNED - Violently transferred. Houses, fields, wives, all they most
valued, and most jealously kept to themselves - are gone....
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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)...
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THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of
Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a
grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his
wo...
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TURNED UNTO OTHERS. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:30).
SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle....
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_I will stretch out my hand_ Cp. for this phrase Isaiah 5:25....
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See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again.
Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited
the Northern tribes, but many times....
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These verses are almost identical with ch. Jeremiah 8:10-12, where
they are probably a later insertion....
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3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15)
TRANSLATION
(9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine
the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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וְ נָסַ֤בּוּ בָֽתֵּיהֶם֙ לַ אֲחֵרִ֔ים
שָׂדֹ֥ות...
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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 under
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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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All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of
the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on
them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...
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One kind of vengeance only he mentions, — that the Jews would be
deprived of their land, which they thought would ever remain in peace
to them. Inasmuch as it had been said,
“This is my rest for ever...
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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 th...
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AND THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE TURNED UNTO OTHERS,.... To strangers, to the
Chaldeans; they shall be transferred unto them, come into their hands,
and become their property:
WITH THEIR FIELDS AND WIVES TO...
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And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and
wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of
the land, saith the LORD.
Ver. 12. _With their fields and...
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_Therefore I am full of the fury_ את חמת, _the anger_, or
_wrath_, as it should rather have been rendered; _of the Lord_ An
expression which is to be understood of that divine justice which is
worthy...
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And their houses shall be turned unto others, transferred to them as
the spoils of war, WITH THEIR FIELDS AND WIVES TOGETHER. Cf
Deuteronomy 28:30; FOR I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND UPON THE INHABITANTS...
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THE PROPHET VOICES THE FURY OF THE LORD...
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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 b...
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THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE TURNED UNTO OTHERS, i.e. their houses and their
lands shall be devolved or turned over to strangers, JEREMIAH 8:10,
even that land which they thought had been entailed upon them,...
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Jeremiah 6:12 houses H1004 turned H5437 (H8738) others H312 Fields
H7704 wives H802 together H3162 out H5186 ...
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JEREMIAH IS CALLED ONCE MORE TO SIFT JERUSALEM FOR RIGHTEOUS MEN AND
HIS RESPONSE DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS DESPAIRING OF EVER FINDING ONE AS
HE SUMS UP THEIR FALLEN STATE AND CALLS ON YHWH TO FULFIL HI...
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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 reas...
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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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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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1 Chronicles 21:16; Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy 28:39; Isaiah 10:4;...