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Verse Jeremiah 6:14. _THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT_ OF THE DAUGHTER
_OF MY_ _PEOPLE SLIGHTLY_] _Of the daughter_ is not in the text, and
is here improperly added: it is, however, in some MSS.
_PEA...
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HEALED - Rather, “tried to heal.”
OF THE DAUGHTER - These words are omitted by a majority of
manuscripts, but found in most of the versions.
SLIGHTLY - literally, “according to,” i. e., as if it wer...
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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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HURT. Same word as "destruction" (Jeremiah 6:1).
OF THE DAUGHTER. Some codices, with four early printed editions, read
these words in the text.
PEACE, PEACE. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), fo...
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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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_of my people_ Cp. Jeremiah 8:11; Jeremiah 8:21, which have _the
daughter of_. Hence it has been inserted needlessly here in mg.
_lightly_ LXX excellently, _making nothing of it_. As worthless
surgeon...
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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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THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT, &C.— _But they apply only a slight
medicine to the wounds of the daughter of my people; saying, Peace,
peace, when there shall be no peace._ See chap. Jeremiah 8:11.
Ho...
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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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6:14 breach (b-6) Or 'wound.' of (c-10) Many omit 'the daughter of,'
but see ch. 8.11....
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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THEY] the leaders, prophets, and priests.
THE HURT] the sins and shortcomings. They are like physicians who for
their own ease assure their patients that all is well....
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THEY HAVE HEALED... SLIGHTLY. — Literally, _as a thing of nought, a
light matter._ The words “of the daughter” are in italics, as
indicating that the marginal reading of the Hebrew omits them. They
ar...
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וַֽ יְרַפְּא֞וּ אֶת ־שֶׁ֤בֶר עַמִּי֙
עַל ־נְק
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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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They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people
slightly, saying, (n) Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
(n) When the people began to fear God's judgments, the false prophets
comfo...
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_Disgracefully. They shall be ashamed, when the contrary to what they
declared shall come to pass, chap. viii. 11._...
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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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This is to be applied to the prophets and priests alone; they not only
corrupted the people by their bad example, but also shook off every
fear of God, and by their impostures and false boasting took...
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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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THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE
SLIGHTLY,.... That is, the false prophets and lying priests, who
pretended to be physicians, and to heal the sickly and distempered
state of...
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They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people
slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace.
Ver. 14. They have healed also the hurt of … slightly.] Heb., Upon
a slight or...
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_For, from the least of them_, &c. Old and young, rich and poor, high
and low, those of all ranks, professions, and employments; _every one
is given to covetousness_ Greedy of filthy lucre; and this m...
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They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly,
touching upon the faults and transgressions of the body politic in a
superficial manner only, SAYING, PEACE, PEACE! WHEN THERE IS...
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THE PROPHET VOICES THE FURY OF THE LORD...
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HURT:
_ Heb._ bruise or breach...
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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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THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE SLIGHTLY:
this refers peculiarly to the prophets; either slighting or making
light of these threatenings, tending to the reproach either,
1...
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Jeremiah 6:14 healed H7495 (H8762) hurt H7667 people H5971 slightly
H7043 (H8738) Saying H559 (H8800) Peace...
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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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_They have healed also the hurt. .. slightly, saying, Peace, peace;
when there is no peace._
HEALING OUR WOUNDS SLIGHTLY
I. What need we all have of healing.
1. Asserted in Scripture.
2. Confirmed...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:13 Greed always leads to seeking UNJUST
GAIN. PROPHET... PRIEST. These religious leaders are as greedy as the
people. Thus, they promise PEACE rather
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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 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:19; Ezekiel 13:10; Ezekiel 13:22
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They have — This refers peculiarly to the prophets; making light of
these threatenings, daubing over the misery and danger that was coming
on the people, by persuading them, that it should not come, o...