JEREMIAH CHAPTER 20 Pashur, smiting Jeremiah.for this prophecy, receiveth a new name, and a fearful doom, JEREMIAH 20:1. Jeremiah's impatience under their treachery and contempt, JEREMIAH 20:7. He rejoiceth in hope of vengeance, JEREMIAH 20:11. Curseth his birth, JEREMIAH 20:14. The course of Immer... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PASHUR SMOTE JEREMIAH; it is not said how he struck him, though some think it most probable that it was with his _fist, _ as the false prophet struck Micaiah, 1 KINGS 22:24. We are as uncertain what is here meant by STOCKS, whether such an engine as is in use amongst us to punish offenders, whi... [ Continue Reading ]
Possibly by this time the mad-brained priest thought he had done more than he could justify by law, for if he were a false prophet, the judgment of him belonged not to him, but to the sanhedrim; he had nothing to do to smite him. Possibly he brought him forth in order to his bringing him before the... [ Continue Reading ]
God now expoundeth the name of _Magor-missabib_, threatening to fill this wicked priest with terrors, that he and all his friends should be affrighted, reflecting upon his most miserable state and condition; and his friends, from whom he might possibly expect some relief, should be as miserable as h... [ Continue Reading ]
This is but the repetition of what God bad often threatened, viz. the perfect ruin of Jerusalem, and the land of Judah. ALL THE STRENGTH OF THIS CITY; their military men, or rather their riches. AND ALL THE LABOURS THEREOF; and all the fruit of their labours. AND ALL THE PRECIOUS THINGS THEREOF, AND... [ Continue Reading ]
Those that teach others to disobey the commandments of God seldom escape that vengeance which cometh upon them who are seduced by them. PASHUR was one whose office it was to have taught others the fear of the Lord. and obedience to his will; he teacheth them what was false, and is not patient to hea... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBHeb; The following part of the chapter to the end of it containeth a complaint or prayer of the prophet unto God, made (as some think) during his imprisonment by Pashur, but the certain time is not known. Our translators here might have translated the word yghyhm more favourably than THOU HAST DE... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR SINCE I SPAKE, I CRIED OUT: if the particle be translated _since_, as we translate it, the meaning is, Since I first began to be a prophet, I have faithfully discharged my prophetical office, and that with some warmth and zeal. I CRIED VIOLENCE AND SPOIL: some understand it of the violence which... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN I SAID, I WILL NOT MAKE MENTION OF HIM, NOR SPEAK ANY MORE IN HIS NAME: this daily scorn and reproach which the prophet saw himself exposed unto, for preaching against the sin and wickedness of the people, was a sore temptation upon him to lay down his employment as a prophet. He did not speak... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet here rendereth a reason why he thought of giving over his work as a prophet, his ears were continually filled with the obloquies and reproaches of such as reproached him, and besides he was afraid on all hands, there were so many traps laid for him, so many devices devised against him. T... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet recovering himself out of his fit of passion, encourageth himself in his God, whom he calls the MIGHTY and TERRIBLE ONE, so declaring his faith in the power of God, as one able to save him, and in the promise and good-will of God toward him; therefore he saith, THE LORD IS WITH ME; such... [ Continue Reading ]
SEEST THE REINS AND THE HEART: the prophet had, JEREMIAH 17:10, spoken unto God under this notion; here he appealeth to him as such, who therefore must needs see as well the prophet's sincerity as his enemies malice. LET ME SEE THY VENGEANCE ON THEM: for his prayer against his enemies, it is of the... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet here riseth higher, from prayer to praise: it is not certain whether this was a rejoicing of faith or of sense; a thanksgiving to God upon his deliverance out of the hand of Pashur, or some other enemies, or a rejoicing in the sure belief that God would deliver his life out of the hands... [ Continue Reading ]
This sudden change of the prophet's style maketh both Mr. Calvin, and some other good interpreters, think that these words proceeded from Jeremiah rather as a repetition of a former passion, into which the abuses of his enemies had put him, than as the immediate product of his spirit at this time. W... [ Continue Reading ]
Parents are usually rejoiced when a son is born to them.... [ Continue Reading ]
By THE CITIES he means those cities mentioned GENESIS 19:25, Sodom and Gomorrah; by THE CRY IN THE MORNING AND SHOUTING AT NOON, he means the shouts and noises that enemies make when they break in upon a place in a hostile manner.... [ Continue Reading ]
These various expressions do only let us see to what a tide passion swelled in this good man's heart, and teach us how much need we have to pray to be delivered from our own passions. Jeremiah's leaving these things recorded by himself, is one instance of what is brought as a rational argument to pr... [ Continue Reading ]
These words let us know the prophet's temptation to these extravagant eruptions of passion; it was the reproach, and shame, and affliction which he endured for the faithful discharge of his ministry; which both lets us see the goodness of God towards those whom he spareth as to these trials, and wha... [ Continue Reading ]