Reprobate silver shall men call them, silver so thoroughly mixed with the baser metals as to be worthless for all ordinary purposes, because the Lord hath rejected them. All those whom the Lord has tried in the oven of His test, whom He has found wanting in the qualities which should be found in a true believer, will finally be cast out as base metal.
REPROBATE - See the margin; not really silver, but the dross. THE LORD HATH REJECTED THEM - This then is the end. The smelter is God’s prophet: the bellows the breath of inspiration: the flux his earn...
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)...
THE PROPHET'S TASK. The record of earlier prophecies (Jeremiah 6:1) fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the trier (_mg._) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy mixed w...
REPROBATE... REJECTED. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). Hebrew. _nim'as... ma'as:_ i.e. rejected (silver)... rejected (them). Compare Isaiah 1:22.Ezekiel 22:18....
The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
In these _vv_. the Lord reassures Jeremiah of his divine commission, and he appears under the figure of one testing metal. The result of the testing process is that no precious metal is found. All is...
_Refuse … rejected_ There is a play on the words in the Hebrew. _Refuse refused_....
I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER, &C.— The prophet in these verses evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such trial, m...
6. _The hopeless task of the Prophet_ (Jeremiah 6:27-30) TRANSLATION (27) A tower have I made you among My people, a fortified city that you may know, then test their way. (28) They are all rebelliou...
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. REPROBATE SILVER - silver so full of alloy as to be utterly worthless (, "Thy silver is become dross"). The Jews were fit...
REPROBATE] RV 'refuse.' JEREMIAH'S FOURTH PROPHECY (OR GROUP OF PROPHECIES). GOD'S JUDGMENT UPON THE UNREPENTANT When the check which Josiah's personal character and influence put upon idolatry was...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
REPROBATE SILVER. — Better, as in the margin, _refuse silver;_ the dross and not the metal; so worthless that even Jehovah, as the great refiner, rejects it utterly, as yielding nothing. The adjective...
כֶּ֣סֶף נִמְאָ֔ס קָרְא֖וּ לָהֶ֑ם כִּֽי ־מָאַ֥ס...
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
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,...
The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
REFLECTIONS Lord Jesus! look upon thy Church, thy vineyard, thy Benjamin, beloved: and place her in times of danger, in the Beth-haccerem of safety in thyself. Remember thou dear Lord, what thou hast...
Jeremiah concludes his subject by saying, — that if the Jews had been cast a hundred times into the furnace, they would not be improved, as they would never become softened on account of their hopeles...
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...
REPROBATE SILVER SHALL MEN CALL THEM,.... Or, "call ye them" i, as the Targum; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; by whom are meant the Jews, who thought themselves of some account...
_Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them._ Ver. 30. Reprobate _a_ silver shall men call them.] Dross and refuse, rather than pure metal; "silver" they would seem t...
REPROBATE SILVER: Or, refuse silver...
18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
REPROBATE SILVER; or, _Refuse silver_; such as will be rejected in payments; they are not to be purged or reformed. SHALL MEN CALL THEM; or, _be called_, i.e. they shall be esteemed such as will not p...
Jeremiah 6:30 call H7121 (H8804) rejected H3988 (H8737) silver H3701 LORD H3068 rejected H3988 (H8804)...
JEREMIAH LEARNS THAT YHWH HAS ESTABLISHED HIM AS AN ASSAYER OF HIS PEOPLE, AS WELL AS THEIR FORTRESS, ALTHOUGH ALL THAT HE WILL DISCOVER WILL BE THAT THEY ARE A MIXTURE OF BASE METAL AND DROSS (JEREMI...
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...
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,...
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 bellows are burnt._ THE BELLOWS BURNT Apply to-- I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people were impressed. So also with Noah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus Himself....
REFUSE SILVER Refuse silver. Jeremiah 6:30. “Refuse silver!” What did the prophet Jeremiah mean by “refuse silver”? And why did he tell the people of Judah that they were like refuse silver. As man...
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...
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,...
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...
Ezekiel 22:18; Ezekiel 22:19; Hosea 9:17; Isaiah 1:22; Isaiah 1:25;...
Refuse — Such as will be rejected in payments....