Valley. He speaks to Jerusalem, confiding in the strength of her situation, upon rocks, surrounded with a deep valley. (Challoner) --- Literally, "valley, solid and in a plain." (Haydock) --- Isaias (xxii. 1.) styles it ironically, "the valley of vision." (Calmet) --- Jerusalem was situated on many rocks. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 6.)
Verse Jeremiah 21:13. _O INHABITANT OF THE VALLEY_, AND _ROCK OF THE PLAIN_] Dr. _Blayney_ translates: "O thou inhabitant of the levelled hollow of a rock." With all his explanation I cannot see the...
INHABITANT - is feminine, the population of Jerusalem being always personified as a woman, the daughter of Zion. Omit and. Jerusalem is at once a valley and a rock Jeremiah 17:3. The people are descri...
CHAPTER 21 The Prophetic Warning _ 1. Zedekiah's inquiry (Jeremiah 21:1) _ 2. Jehovah's answer through Jeremiah (Jeremiah 21:3) Jeremiah 21:1. It has been said that this chapter is historical
INHABITANT. inhabitress: i.e. Zion. ROCK OF THE PLAIN. Figure of speech _Periphrasis_, for Zion....
_inhabitant_ lit. as mg. _inhabitress_, i.e. the feminine used collectively for the body of the inhabitants. See Jeremiah 4:31; Jeremiah 6:2; Jeremiah 7:29;...
See introd. note to section. The fragment is a very obscure one. It may be connected with Jeremiah 22:8 f. It was evidently held by the compiler who placed it here to refer to Jerusalem. But that city...
BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THEE— _Behold, I am against thee, who sittest in the valley of Segor, in the midst of the plain:_ Houbigant; who thinks that Jerusalem is here meant, which, like another Segor, wa...
4. _The alternatives for the royal house_ (Jeremiah 21:11-14) TRANSLATION (11) And to the house of the king of Judah: Hear the word of the LORD! O house of David, thus says the LORD: Judge with justi...
Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? O INHABITANT OF THE...
21:13 plain, (c-14) _ Mishor_ , generally applied to the table-land of Moab; here, Jerusalem....
11-14. Exhortation and warning to the royal house....
VALLEY] see on Jeremiah 17:3....
O INHABITANT OF THE VALLEY... — The noun, as the marginal “inhabitress” shows, is feminine; and, as in “the daughter of Zion” for Zion itself, describes the lower city of Jerusalem, Isaiah’s “valley o...
הִנְנִ֨י אֵלַ֜יִךְ יֹשֶׁ֧בֶת הָ עֵ֛מֶק צ֥וּר...
The final series before the fall of Jerusalem consists of messages delivered to Zedekiah (21-27). The occasion of these was, in the first place, Zedekiah's deputation to the prophet. The scourge which...
Behold, I [am] against thee, (g) O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; who say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? (g) Meaning, Je...
It was the glory of Jerusalem, and for which the Prophet boasted, that she should be a quiet habitation, whose tabernacle should not be taken down, nor one of her stakes removed. But this was because...
Though the whole nation was corrupt in the time of the Prophet, yet Jerusalem was the head and seat of all evils, especially as there was there more licentiousness; and then they thought that the Prop...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST THEE,.... Or, "behold, I unto thee" s; to be supplied either thus, "behold, I say unto thee" t; what follows; and therefore take notice of it, attend unto it: or, "behold, I com...
Behold, I [am] against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations? Ver. 13. _Behold,...
_Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain_ A description of Jerusalem, which was built in part upon the rocky mountain of Zion, but a great part of it was in the va...
A MESSAGE TO JUDAH AND ITS KING...
Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley and rock of the plain, saith the Lord, Jerusalem being considered, on the one hand, as being situated beneath Mount Olivet and its range, and on t...
INHABITANT: _ Heb._ inhabitress...
11-14 The wickedness of the king and his family was the worse because of their relation to David. They were urged to act with justice, at once, lest the Lord's anger should be unquenchable. If God be...
INHABITANT OF THE VALLEY; the inhabitants of the city of Jerusalem are those here intended, PSALMS 125:2. The mountains were round about Jerusalem, yea, Jerusalem itself was builded in part upon the r...
Jeremiah 21:13 inhabitant H3427 (H8802) valley H6010 rock H6697 plain H4334 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 say...
A GENERAL PLEA TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID NOT TO BE PRESUMPTIOUS BUT TO EXERCISE JUSTICE AND MERCY IF THEY WOULD ESCAPE JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 21:11). Jeremiah now makes a general plea to ‘the house of David'...
CONTENTS: Message to King Zedekiah. Babylonian captivity foretold. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Pashur, Zephaniah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: If God be for us, none can be against us, but i...
Jeremiah 21:1. _Pashur the son of Melchiah,_ a different person from the Pashur named in the preseding chapter, who was son of Immer. Jeremiah 21:8. _I set before you the way of life, and the way of d...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 21:1 Jeremiah’s Confrontations. Having solidified his relationship with God, Jeremiah confronts his enemies and their beliefs. He opposes kings ...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Beginning of Zedekiah’s reign. _Vide_ Notes, and especially _Personal Allusions_ to chap. 1. _Usher_ dates the chapter B.C. 589; _Hales_ B....
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into three parts, two of which seem to be in some sort of connection, while the third is isolated. First comes a warning to the messengers of Zedekiah of the unfortunate i...
Jeremiah chapter 21. Now the book of Jeremiah is not written in a consecutive kind of an order. This particular prophecy Jeremiah dates. They're just the prophecies of Jeremiah at particular times in...
2 Samuel 5:6; 2 Samuel 5:7; Exodus 13:20; Exodus 13:8; Isaiah 22:1;...
Of the valley — The inhabitants of the city of Jerusalem are here intended. Jerusalem itself was built in part upon the rocky mountain of Zion, but a great part was in the valley, and the higher mount...