Also her hired men, the mercenaries in her employ, are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks, provided with the best of everything, in order to keep them favorably inclined; for they also are turned back, even they lost all their former courage, and are fled away together; they did not stand because the day of their calamity was come upon them and the time of their visitation, when God would visit His anger upon them.
Verse Jeremiah 46:21. _ARE FLED AWAY TOGETHER_] Perhaps there is a reference here to the case of a cow stung with gnats. She runs hither and thither not knowing where to go; so shall it be with this s...
Rather, “Also her hirelings in the midst of her are like calves of the stall.” The mercenaries of Egypt - Nubians, Moors, and Lydians Jeremiah 46:9 - were destroyed at the battle of Carchemish, and 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...
THEY DID NOT STAND. they made no stand. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read, "and they have made", &c....
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...
_her hired men_ her mercenary troops. _like calves of the stall_ See on Jeremiah 44:30. The reference is to the Ionian and Carian soldiers, who (Herod. II. 163) numbered 30,000, and lived on the Pelus...
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...
B. The Consequences of Invasion Jeremiah 46:20-26 TRANSLATION (20) A very beautiful heifer is Egypt. A gadfly from the north has come against her. (21) Also her hirelings in the midst of her are like...
Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, a...
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
HER HIRED MEN ARE IN THE MIDST OF HER LIKE FATTED BULLOCKS. — Literally, _bullocks of the stall._ The prophet harps, as it were, on the same image. The mercenaries — Ionians, Carians, and others — in...
גַּם ־שְׂכִרֶ֤יהָ בְ קִרְבָּהּ֙ כְּ עֶגְלֵ֣י...
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...
Also her hired men (r) [are] in the midst of her like fatted bulls; for they also have turned back, [and] have fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity had come upon t...
_Hirelings. Apries had thirty thousand Carians, &c., who were defeated by Amasis. (Herodotus ii. 163.)_...
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...
Here the Prophet represents the mercenaries of Egypt, as we have already said, as being foreign soldiers, who had been hired here and there, and from far countries, such as Lydia was. It may yet have...
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...
ALL HER HIRED MEN [ARE] IN THE MIDST OF HER LIKE FATTED BULLOCKS,.... Or, "bullocks of the stall" k; soldiers of other countries, that were hired into the service of Egypt, and lived so deliciously th...
Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them...
_Egypt is like a very fair heifer_ “In the foregoing verse the prophet compared Egypt to a delicate young woman. Here he resembles her to a fat and well-favoured heifer. In which comparison, as Grotiu...
FATTED BULLOCKS: _ Heb._ bullocks of the stall...
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...
OLBHeb; ALSO HER HIRED MEN ARE IN THE MIDST OF HER LIKE FATTED BULLOCKS; the mercenary soldiers also, which the Egyptians have hired from Cush and Phut, and other parts, are at present in a flourishin...
Jeremiah 46:21 mercenaries H7916 midst H7130 fat H4770 bulls H5695 back H6437 (H8689) away H5127 (H8804) togeth
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
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...
2 Kings 7:6; 2 Samuel 10:6; Amos 6:4; Deuteronomy 32:15; Ezekiel 27:10