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Jeremiah 6:14

They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of My people slightly, touching upon the faults and transgressions of the body politic in a superficial manner only, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace. The prophets and priests, the leaders of the people, who were, by God's command, the watchmen of the nation, ignored this duty in the interest of their own selfishness. Instead of exposing the evils, the wickedness, and idolatry of the people, they glossed over the conditions, treating the ulcerous growths of the body politic as insignificant bruises, after the manner of similar weak characters the world over.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 6:14. _THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT_ OF THE DAUGHTER _OF MY_ _PEOPLE SLIGHTLY_] _Of the daughter_ is not in the text, and is here improperly added: it is, however, in some MSS. _PEA...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HEALED - Rather, “tried to heal.” OF THE DAUGHTER - These words are omitted by a majority of manuscripts, but found in most of the versions. SLIGHTLY - literally, “according to,” i. e., as if it wer...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _ 2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9) 3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his wo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HURT. Same word as "destruction" (Jeremiah 6:1). OF THE DAUGHTER. Some codices, with four early printed editions, read these words in the text. PEACE, PEACE. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), fo...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    These verses are almost identical with ch. Jeremiah 8:10-12, where they are probably a later insertion....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again. Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited the Northern tribes, but many times....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _of my people_ Cp. Jeremiah 8:11; Jeremiah 8:21, which have _the daughter of_. Hence it has been inserted needlessly here in mg. _lightly_ LXX excellently, _making nothing of it_. As worthless surgeon...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT, &C.— _But they apply only a slight medicine to the wounds of the daughter of my people; saying, Peace, peace, when there shall be no peace._ See chap. Jeremiah 8:11. Ho...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15) TRANSLATION (9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. HURT - the spiritual wound. SLIGHTLY - as if it were but a slight wound; or, i...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:14 breach (b-6) Or 'wound.' of (c-10) Many omit 'the daughter of,' but see ch. 8.11....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-8. The hostile army approaches....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY] the leaders, prophets, and priests. THE HURT] the sins and shortcomings. They are like physicians who for their own ease assure their patients that all is well....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY HAVE HEALED... SLIGHTLY. — Literally, _as a thing of nought, a light matter._ The words “of the daughter” are in italics, as indicating that the marginal reading of the Hebrew omits them. They ar...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ יְרַפְּא֞וּ אֶת ־שֶׁ֤בֶר עַמִּי֙ עַל ־נְק

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, (n) Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. (n) When the people began to fear God's judgments, the false prophets comfo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Disgracefully. They shall be ashamed, when the contrary to what they declared shall come to pass, chap. viii. 11._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    This is to be applied to the prophets and priests alone; they not only corrupted the people by their bad example, but also shook off every fear of God, and by their impostures and false boasting took...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE SLIGHTLY,.... That is, the false prophets and lying priests, who pretended to be physicians, and to heal the sickly and distempered state of...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. Ver. 14. They have healed also the hurt of … slightly.] Heb., Upon a slight or...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For, from the least of them_, &c. Old and young, rich and poor, high and low, those of all ranks, professions, and employments; _every one is given to covetousness_ Greedy of filthy lucre; and this m...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HURT: _ Heb._ bruise or breach...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin b...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE SLIGHTLY: this refers peculiarly to the prophets; either slighting or making light of these threatenings, tending to the reproach either, 1...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 6:14 healed H7495 (H8762) hurt H7667 people H5971 slightly H7043 (H8738) Saying H559 (H8800) Peace...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH IS CALLED ONCE MORE TO SIFT JERUSALEM FOR RIGHTEOUS MEN AND HIS RESPONSE DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS DESPAIRING OF EVER FINDING ONE AS HE SUMS UP THEIR FALLEN STATE AND CALLS ON YHWH TO FULFIL HI...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given the reas...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that should come because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking people,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_ [of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem, ac...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They have healed also the hurt. .. slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace._ HEALING OUR WOUNDS SLIGHTLY I. What need we all have of healing. 1. Asserted in Scripture. 2. Confirmed...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:13 Greed always leads to seeking UNJUST GAIN. PROPHET... PRIEST. These religious leaders are as greedy as the people. Thus, they promise PEACE rather

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small town of defenc...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. JEREMIAH 6:1 Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:19; Ezekiel 13:10; Ezekiel 13:22

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    They have — This refers peculiarly to the prophets; making light of these threatenings, daubing over the misery and danger that was coming on the people, by persuading them, that it should not come, o...

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