Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 16:14
Therefore; it were better translated Notwithstanding, for that is manifestly the sense. God sweeteneth the dreadful threatenings preceding with a comfortable promise of their restoration.
Therefore; it were better translated Notwithstanding, for that is manifestly the sense. God sweeteneth the dreadful threatenings preceding with a comfortable promise of their restoration.
Verse Jeremiah 16:14. _THE LORD LIVETH, THAT BROUGHT UP_] See Isaiah 43:18....
These two verses, by promising a deliverance greater than that from Egypt, implied also a chastisement more terrible than the bondage in the iron furnace there. Instead of their being placed in one la...
THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
CHILDREN. sons. OUT OF. EGYPT. Reference to Pentateuch (Ex. Jeremiah 12:15)....
Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
See introd. summary to section. These two verses, recurring as they do in a suitable context as Jeremiah 23:7 f., must be considered to be here, at all events, an importation. "The context on both sid...
THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, &C.— _Besides, lo! the days come, saith the Lord,_ &c. Houbigant. It may hence seem, that God's intent was, not only that they should consider their last deliverance...
C. Explanation on Behalf of the Prophet Jeremiah 16:14-18 TRANSLATION (14) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no more be said, As the LORD lives who brought us up fr...
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth...
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
15. Yet the coming deliverance shall be one in comparison with which even the exodus from Egypt shall pale. For Jeremiah's custom of throwing in a bright thought among gloomy ones see Jeremiah 3:14; J...
BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME... — Judgment and mercy are tempered in the promise. Here the former is predominant. Afterwards, in Jeremiah 23:5, where it is connected with the hope of a personal Deliverer, th...
לָכֵ֛ן הִנֵּֽה ־יָמִ֥ים בָּאִ֖ים נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֑ה...
The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...
Whether from the divine pleasure, which the Lord took in delivering his people in those instances, which most strongly represented their spiritual deliverance from sin and hell, by the Lord Jesus: or...
Jeremiah seems here to promise a return to the Jews; and so the passage is commonly expounded, as though a consolation is interposed, in which the faithful alone are concerned. But I consider the pass...
In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...
THEREFORE, BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD,.... Or nevertheless, "notwithstanding" d their sins and iniquities, and the punishment brought upon them for them: or "surely", verily; for Jarchi say...
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; Ver. 14. _Therefore. behold._] Or, N...
_Therefore, behold the days come, saith the Lord_, &c. The particle לכן seems to be very improperly rendered _therefore_ here. It evidently sometimes signifies _notwithstanding_, or _nevertheless;_ se...
REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, according to the asseveration which had been common in Judah these many centuries. THE LORD LIVETH THAT BROUGHT UP THE...
14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from an...
Jeremiah 16:14 days H3117 coming H935 (H8802) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 said H559 (H8735) LORD...
WHAT JEREMIAH IS TO ANSWER ONCE HE HAS GIVEN HIS EXPLANATION AS TO WHY HE IS ABSTAINING FROM MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, FROM ALL FORMS OF MOURNING, AND FROM ALL CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:10). Wit...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...
Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
_I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers._ LARGER PROVIDENCES Thus epochs are made; thus new dates are introduced into human history; thus the less is merged in the gre...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 16:14 God will restore ISRAEL after exile. This renewal will be so astounding it will be greater than the first exodus (Jeremiah 32:3
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...
Deuteronomy 15:15; Exodus 20:2; Hosea 3:4; Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 43:18;...
Notwithstanding — God sweetens the dreadful threatenings preceding, with a comfortable promise of their restoration....