JEREMIAH CHAPTER 24 Under the type of good and bad figs, JEREMIAH 24:1, he foreshoweth the return of some from captivity, JEREMIAH 24:4, and the ruin of Zedekiah and the rest, JEREMIAH 24:8. The sum of what God by his prophet revealeth in this chapter is, that he would deal more graciously with thos... [ Continue Reading ]
God afterwards explaineth to the prophet, and he to the king's house, the significancy of this vision. The figs first ripe are usually best. By these GOOD FIGS, as will appear by the following verses, are intended Jeconiah or Jehoiachin, with the ten thousand mentioned 2 KINGS 24:14, and the seven t... [ Continue Reading ]
God having caused the prophet to have such a visible object appear to him, asked him what he saw as JEREMIAH 1:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE GOD OF ISRAEL; who have power to do what I please, and who yet am in covenant with Israel, and have a kindness for the seed of my servant Jacob. Look, as thou approvest of one of these baskets of figs, so I do approve of those that were carried away captive with Jeconiah, re... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL SET MINE EYES UPON THEM FOR GOOD; the soul looking out at the eye, discovereth its inclinations and affection, whether of love or wrath. Hence we read of God's setting his eyes upon people _for evil_, AMOS 9:4, as here of his setting his eyes upon them for good. Or else it may signify God's s... [ Continue Reading ]
Under the term KNOW ME is here (as in many other texts) comprehended faith, love, obedience, all those motions of the soul which rationally should follow a right comprehending of God in men's knowledge. THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD; I will be a God in covenant with them; as I wil... [ Continue Reading ]
Whither it is probable many of the Jews had fled, upon the coming, or noise of the coming, of the king of Babylon, as they had done before, ISAIAH 30:2, ISAIAH 31:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Lord by his prophet expresseth those tremendous judgments which he had designed to bring upon this wicked prince and people in the words of Moses the man of God; as well because the Jews had a great reverence (pretendedly at least) for Moses, how little soever they had for Jeremiah; as to let th... [ Continue Reading ]
Many of them shall not live to be carried into captivity, but shall die miserably in their own land, if not by the enemies _sword_, yet by the _famine_ and the _pestilence_, which two things ordinarily attend long sieges. By one of these three sore judgments of God they shall be consumed out of the... [ Continue Reading ]