Feasting: usual at burials for all relations. (Calmet) --- This custom reduced many to poverty. (Josephus, Jewish Wars ii. 1.) --- Sed cænam funerishæres
Negliget iratus quod rem curtaverit. (Pers. vi.)
--- Mourn, if thou shouldst meet a funeral, Luke vii. 32.
Verse Jeremiah 16:5. _ENTER NOT INTO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING_] The public calamities are too great to permit individual losses to come into consideration....
THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
TAKEN AWAY. Hebrew. _'asaph._. _Homonym,_ with two meanings: (1) to protect, or heal (Numbers 12:14; Numbers 12:15; 2 Kings 5:6; Psalms 27:10
_Enter not_ The prophet's abstinence from the accustomed marks of respect to the dead and sympathy with the relatives is to be a forecast of the time when such abstinence shall become general on accou...
III. PROPHETIC CONDUCT Jeremiah 16:1-21 Jeremiah came through his personal crisis. He repented and God took him back. Now that the rebellious prophet was humble and contrite, God gives him further ins...
For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies....
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
THE HOUSE OF MOURNING. — Better, _mourning-feast._ The word is found only here and in Amos 6:7, where it is translated “banquet.” So the Vulg. gives here _domus convivii,_ and the LXX. the Greek word...
כִּֽי ־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אַל ־תָּבֹוא֙ בּ
The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...
For thus saith the LORD, (b) Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and merc...
I venture to read this precept given to Jeremiah concerning marriage while in Babylon, both with a national and spiritual view. No alliances were to be made by the people of God, with their idolatrous...
As Jeremiah was forbidden at the beginning of the chapter to take a wife, for a dreadful devastation of the whole land was very nigh; so now God confirms what he had previously said, that so great wou...
In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...
FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, ENTER NOT INTO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING,.... On account of his dead relations or neighbours; since they were taken away from the evil to come, and therefore no occasion to mourn...
For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies....
_Enter not into the house of mourning_ Or, of _a mourning feast_, according to the reading in the margin, the word מרזח, occurring also Amos 6:7, and being there rendered _a banquet._ The sense seems...
THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH...
For thus saith the Lord, in bidding Jeremiah refrain from every show of sympathy for the fate of the apostate people, ENTER NOT INTO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING, where some one had died and where people wer...
MOURNING: Or, mourning feast...
1-9 The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his country ruined very shortly. In the prospect of sad times, he is to abstain from marriage, mourning for the dead, and pleasure. Tho...
OLBHeb; Mourning, xzdj There is so great a difference in the translation of this word, that, AMOS 6:7, the very same word signifieth a banquet, and is so translated; yet is there no contradiction, for...
Jeremiah 16:5 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 enter H935 (H8799) house H1004 mourning H4798 go H3212 ...
THE SECOND SIGN: ABSTENTION FROM MOURNING (JEREMIAH 16:5). The second sign was to be seen as the abstention from mourning and from attendance at funerals. Proper mourning for the dead was again seen a...
JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS IN...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...
Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 16:5 God commands Jeremiah not to attend funerals or mourn the dead, again as a testimony that God has TAKEN AWAY his PEACE. God’s protection (STEADFAST LOVE) is
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...
2 Chronicles 15:5; 2 Chronicles 15:6; Deuteronomy 31:17; Ezekiel 24:16;...
Enter not — Do not go to comfort such as mourn for any relations dead, (for their feastings upon those occasions were upon a consolatory account) those that die are most happy, for I will take away th...