He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another, Jehovah Himself causing them to stumble and to sink to the ground; and they said, Arise and let us go again to our own people, since they were but visitors and strangers in Egypt, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword, to escape its murderous fierceness. Thus the confederates and mercenaries of Egypt would make ready to save their own lives in the general destruction.
Verse Jeremiah 46:16. _ONE FELL UPON ANOTHER_] In their terror and confusion ranks fell on ranks, and overturned each other. _LET US GO AGAIN TO OUR OWN PEOPLE_] Let us flee to our own country with a...
Literally, as in the margin, i. e., Yahweh hath made many to stumble. ARISE ... - The Egyptian army being composed of mercenaries, has no patriotic feeling and immediately that the battle is lost, th...
IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS CHAPTER 46 Concerning Egypt _ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13) 3. A messa...
JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...
FALL. be stumbling. ONE... UPON ANOTHER. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:37)....
As the latter part of the _v_. implies that the speakers are foreigners, who, however, according to the present MT. have not been mentioned, Du. and others (with a certain amount of support from LXX)...
See introd. note to the ch. and summary. Gi. rejects as later all that follows Jeremiah 46:12 as involving repetitions, looseness of structure, and vagueness in style, criticisms which (see note on Je...
Oracles against foreign nations Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's _Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that the whole or a considerable part of the...
HE MADE MANY TO FALL— _The number of those who fall is increased; lo, each one meets his neighbor, and says, Arise, let us return,_ &c. Houbigant. See chap. Jeremiah 25:38....
A. The Certainty of Invasion Jeremiah 46:13-19 TRANSLATION (13) The word which the LORD spake unto Jeremiah concerning the coming of Nebuchadnezzar and his smiting of the land of Egypt. (14) Declare...
II. THE SECOND ORACLE CONCERNING EGYPT Jeremiah 46:13-26 The second poem concerning Egypt points to an invasion of that land by Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 46:13). It is impossible to ascertain the date...
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword. HE-YAHWEH-MADE MANY TO FA...
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
THEY SAID] the mercenaries: see on Jeremiah 2:9....
ARISE, AND LET US GO AGAIN TO OUR OWN PEOPLE. — The case contemplated is that of the settlers in Egypt, the Lydians, Ionians, and Carians (see Note on Jeremiah 46:9) whom Psammetichus had encouraged,...
הִרְבָּ֖ה כֹּושֵׁ֑ל גַּם ־נָפַ֞ל אִ֣ישׁ אֶל ־
CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....
The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our (n) own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword. (n) As they who would re...
_Dove. Hebrew also, "of the destroyer." Septuagint, "Greeks," or Ionians. (Calmet) --- See chap. xxv. 35. (Challoner) --- Nebuchodonosor came with expedition, or had a dove on his standards. (Menochiu...
If the Reader will compare scripture with scripture, which is always the most profitable way of reading the word of God; he will find, that what Jeremiah is here engaged in, Isaiah had been before him...
Brevity of expression renders this sentence obscure or ambiguous. The verb הרבה _, erebe, _is put without a nominative case; but it is to be applied to God. God, then, has _multiplied. _And then there...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
HE MADE MANY TO FALL,.... That is, the Lord, by the hand of the Chaldeans, by whose sword multitudes fell in battle: YEA, ONE FELL UPON ANOTHER; they fell in heaps, denoting the multitude of the slai...
He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword. Ver. 16. _Yea, one fell upon...
_He made many to fall_ Or, as the Vulgate renders הרבה כושׁל, _multiplicavit ruentes, he multiplied those falling_, or more literally, _the faller_, as in the margin, the word being singular. Blaney c...
HE MADE MANY TO FALL: _ Heb._ multiplied the faller...
13-28 Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the...
The prophet had before spoken of Nebuchadnezzar, as an instrument in the hand of God, who being armed with his commission and power, made many to fall, yea, God caused such a fear to fall upon them, t...
Jeremiah 46:16 many H7235 (H8689) fall H3782 (H8802) one H376 fell H5307 (H8804) another H7453 said...
B). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S LATER PENETRATION INTO EGYPT WHICH WILL NOT HOWEVER BE TERMINAL (JEREMIAH 46:13). This prophecy here has in mind a much later excursion of Nebuchadrezzar against...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...
Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jeremiah 4...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations. Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations (Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:15 God causes Egypt’s defeat. Babylon remains God’s instrument for punishing idolatry (Jeremiah 27:1)....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of Charchemish. This se...
EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28. Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of miscellaneous prophec...
Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 51:9; Leviticus 26:36; Leviticus 26:37...