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Verse Jeremiah 1:14. _SHALL BREAK FORTH_] תפתח _tippathach, shall
be opened_. The door shall be thrown abroad, that these calamities may
pass out freely....
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OUT OF THE NORTH ... - The caldron represents the great military
empires upon the Euphrates. In Hezekiah’s time, Nineveh was at their
head; but stormed by the armies of Cyaxares and Nabopalassar it is...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE
JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED
CHAPTER 1
The Call of the Prophet
_ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _
2. The divin...
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THE TWO VISIONS OF JUDGMENT. These form a separate experience, and
imply some change of standpoint, since it is now the judgment of Judah
through the instrumentality of the nations which is presented...
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AN EVIL. the calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. See note on Isaiah
45:7....
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Jeremiah's call
The passage will fall into four sections.
(i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah
1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful
to p...
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In 2 Chronicles 6:41-42 the words of the Psalm are quoted at the close
of Solomon's prayer at the Dedication of the Temple, and some
commentators suppose that in Psalms 132:8 ff. the Psalmist carries...
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The symbol of the caldron
13. _a seething caldron_ An ordinary sight in daily life conveys a
message to the prophet. In this second symbol the character of the
future in store for the nation is more c...
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_evil_ THE EVIL the evil which was to be expected, foretold by all the
prophets as the result of national sin.
_shall break forth_ SHALL BE OPENED, SHALL DISCLOSE ITSELF. But it is
best by a slight c...
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II. THE CALL CONFIRMED Jeremiah 1:11-19
TRANSLATION
(11) And the word of the LORD came unto me saying, What are you
looking at, Jeremiah? And I replied, I am looking at a rod of almond.
(12) Then the...
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Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break
forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
BREAK FORTH - `shall disclose itself.'
OUT OF THE NORTH - (; ; ;...
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THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY
1-3. See Introduction....
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OUT OF THE NORTH AN EVIL. — Literally, _the evil,_ long foretold, as
in Micah 3:12, and elsewhere, and long expected....
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וַ יֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑י מִ
צָּפֹון֙ תִּפָּ
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CHAPTER I
THE CALL AND CONSECRATION
IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the
life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more
detailed study of his writin...
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COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER
Jeremiah 1:1-19
God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to
discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...
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The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and
giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry.
The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...
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Then the LORD said to me, Out of the (o) north an evil shall break
forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
(o) Syria and Assyria were northward in respect to Jerusalem, which
was the Chaldeans do...
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The Lord was pleased, we find, both by word and by vision, to confirm
the Prophet in his new appointment. And the Lord which raised up to
the Prophet's mind these images, took care to instruct his min...
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And thus God testifies that the fire was already kindled in Chaldea
and Assyria, which was not only to boil the Jews, but also reduce them
to nothing. And then he expresses the same in other words — t...
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In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had
been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry
His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...
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THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO ME,.... Explaining the above vision:
OUT OF THE NORTH AN EVIL SHALL BREAK FORTH UPON ALL THE INHABITANTS OF
THE LAND; that is, out of Babylon, which lay north, as Jarchi says,...
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Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth
upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Ver. 14. _Out of the north an evil shall break forth,_] _i.e., _ From
Chaldea, which is no...
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Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break
forth, out of a great and wide opening, UPON ALL THE INHABITANTS OF
THE LAND. A boiling kettle is an Oriental symbol of a raging war, a...
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THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
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SHALL BREAK FORTH:
_ Heb._ shall be opened...
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11-19 God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and
Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond-tree, which is more forward in
the spring than any other, represented the speedy approach of
judg...
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THE LORD SAID; explained this vision. OUT OF THE NORTH, i.e. from
Babylon, a metonymy of the subject; for though it lie eastward, yet it
is north from Jerusalem, as lying four degrees more from the
eq...
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Jeremiah 1:14 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) north H6828 calamity H7451
forth H6605 (H8735) inhabitants H3427 ...
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THE SIGN OF THE BOILING CAULDRON (JEREMIAH 1:13).
The second sign was that of a cauldron full of boiling liquid ready to
be poured out on Judah from the north, a vivid picture of threatening
judgment...
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YHWH GIVES JEREMIAH TWO SIGNS, ONE OF WHICH WAS THE CERTAINTY OF
YHWH'S WATCHFULNESS OVER HIS PURPOSES, AND THE SECOND A SIGN WHICH
DEMONSTRATED THE JUDGMENTS THAT WERE TO COME FROM THE NORTH BECAUSE...
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Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests
that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the
LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod
and seething pot.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim.
CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...
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Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the
creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature,
whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...
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_I see a rod of an almond tree._
TREE EMBLEMS
The Hebrew word for almond signifies the “waker,” in allusion to
its being the first tree to wake to life in the winter. The word also
contains the signi...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce
the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s
call and message (vv....
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:13 BOILING POT, FACING AWAY FROM THE
NORTH. This vision means that judgment will come from the north.
Eventually Babylon fulfills this threat....
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4,
_sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would
make the date of the “thirteen...
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EXPOSITION
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC
OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...
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At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah.
About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I
feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...
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Ezekiel 1:4; Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 31:8; Jeremiah 4:6
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North — From Babylon....