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Verse Jeremiah 11:19. _I_ WAS _LIKE A LAMB_ OR _AN OX_] _Dahler_
translates, "I was like a fattened lamb that is led to the slaughter."
_Blayney_, "I was like a tame lamb that is led to slaughter." T...
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LIKE A LAMB OR AN OX - Rather, “like a tame lamb.” Jeremiah had
lived at Anathoth as one of the family, never suspecting that, like a
tame lamb, the time would come for him to be killed.
THE TREE WIT...
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CHAPTER 11
The Broken Covenant and the Plot Against Jeremiah
_ 1. The broken covenant (Jeremiah 11:1) _
2. The plot revealed and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 11:18)
Jeremiah 11:1. Jehovah
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THE ANATHOTH PLOT. The abrupt introduction of this account of the plot
of the men of Anathoth against the life of the prophet might be
explained by the supposition that his advocacy of the Deuteronomi...
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LIKE. LAMB. See App-85.
SAYING. Note the Figure of speech. _Ellipsis_ (App-6), as frequently
with this verb. See notes on Psa_109::5. Psalms 109:6; Psalms 144:12,
&c.
THE TREE WITH THE FRUIT THEREOF....
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See summary at commencement of section, and for the date of Jeremiah
11:18 to Jeremiah 12:6 see introd. notes on the section. The
abruptness with which the mention of the plots against Jeremiah is
her...
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The prophet no more expected harm from his kindred than does the pet
lamb from the family with which it lives (cp. 2 Samuel 12:3).
_gentle_ A.V. "an ox" represents the Hebrew word identical in form
in...
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THE LORD HATH GIVEN ME KNOWLEDGE— It is generally agreed by the
commentators, that Jeremiah here speaks of his own sufferings as
figurative of those of the Messiah. All the churches agree, says St.
Je...
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II. THE PLOT AGAINST THE PROPHET
Jeremiah 11:18-23
Jeremiah was to suffer much during his ministry. At times his enemies
almost got the best of him. But God was faithful to His promise to
deliver Jer...
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And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou
shewedst me their doings.
Jeremiah here digresses to notice the attempt on his life plotted by
his townsmen of Anathoth. He had...
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11:19 lamb (d-7) Or 'like a lamb, an ox.'...
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1-14. Punishment must follow faithlessness....
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LIKE A LAMB _or_ AN OX] RV 'like a gentle lamb.' THE TREE WITH THE
FRUIT THEREOF] apparently a proverb. Not only is the tree to perish
but there is to be no chance of reproduction by the sowing of its...
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LIKE A LAMB OR AN OX. — Better, _as a tame lamb, i.e.,_ one, like
the ewe-lamb of Nathan’s parable (2 Samuel 12:3), brought up in the
home of its master. There is no “or” in the Hebrew, and the
transl...
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וַ אֲנִ֕י כְּ כֶ֥בֶשׂ אַלּ֖וּף
יוּבַ֣ל לִ
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CHAPTER VII
THE BROKEN COVENANT
Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1
THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to
summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet's car...
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THE PENALTY OF A BROKEN COVENANT
Jeremiah 11:1-20
This and the following two Chapter s belong to the earlier ministry of
Jeremiah, when he still dwelt in his native home of Anathoth. The
prophet refe...
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He then proceeded to deal with the broken Covenant. There came to him
from the Lord a special word commissioning him to pronounce a curse on
"the man that heareth not the words of this covenant." To t...
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But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter;
and I knew not that they had devised plots against me, [saying], Let
us (o) destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him o...
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Poor Jeremiah's preaching brought upon him constant hatred and
persecution. It hath done so to all faithful preachers in all ages of
the Church, and ever must, and will. So Jesus taught his disciples...
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The Prophet adds here, as I think, that he did not retaliate private
wrongs: for the Jews might, under this pretext, have rejected his
doctrine, and have said, that he was moved by anger to treat them...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12.
Chapter 11 suggests some observations. God addresses Himself again to
Israel on the ground of their responsibility, reminding them of the
call to o...
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BUT I WAS LIKE A LAMB, OR AN OX,.... The word "alluph", rendered an
ox, is by many considered as an adjective to the word lamb n; since
the disjunctive particle or is not in the next; and is different...
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But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought to the slaughter;
and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let
us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut...
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_And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it_, &c. This relates to the
ill designs which the men of Anathoth had contrived against the
prophet, which he here saith God had revealed to him. See the
foll...
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But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter, with
never an inkling of the evil intention of his own familiar friends;
AND I KNEW NOT THAT THEY HAD DEVISED DEVICES AGAINST ME, SAYIN...
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Israel's Conspiracy Against the Lord and its Punishment...
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THE TREE WITH THE FRUIT THEREOF:
_ Heb._ the stalk with his bread...
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18-23 The prophet Jeremiah tells much concerning himself, the times
he lived in being very troublesome. Those of his own city plotted how
they might cause his death. They thought to end his days, but...
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We have no other mention of this conspiracy in holy writ, but it is
plain, both from this verse and what followeth to the end of this
chapter, that the men of Anathoth (which was Jeremiah's own town)...
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Jeremiah 11:19 lamb H3532 brought H2986 (H8714) slaughter H2873
(H8800) know H3045 (H8804) devised H2803 ...
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THE REACTION OF THE PEOPLE OF HIS HOMETOWN ANATHOTH IS TO SEEK TO WARN
OFF JEREMIAH WITH THREATS OF DEATH, AT WHICH HE APPEALS TO YHWH
(JEREMIAH 11:18).
Jeremiah 11:18
‘And YHWH gave me knowledge of...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message on the broken covenant.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who enter into solemn covenant with God must expect
on their part to fulfill the conditions, else He...
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Jeremiah 11:14. _Pray not thou for this people._ The Chaldaic and the
LXX, Deprecate not the scourge of war coming upon them. We find the
same sentiments more fully expressed in Ezekiel 14., confirmin...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 11:18 God reveals a plot against Jeremiah,
who commits his future to his deliverer.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The
“covenant” summarised in Jeremiah 11:2 refers to the nation’s
renewal of vows with Jehovah upon the Book of the Law being discovered
du...
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EXPOSITION
The superscription in Jeremiah 11:1 evidently belongs to the three
chapters 11-13, though Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 are more
closely connected with each other than with...
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Shall we turn to Jeremiah the eleventh chapter as we continue our
study through the book of Jeremiah.
Chapter 11 begins a new section of the book, not a whole new division,
but it's a new message, and...
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Daniel 9:26; Isaiah 32:7; Isaiah 38:11; Isaiah 53:7; Isaiah 53:8;...
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Let us destroy — We have no other mention of this conspiracy, but it
is plain both from this verse, and what follows, that the men of
Anathoth (which was Jeremiah's own town) were offended at his
prop...