Great states are ordinarily in Scripture called virgins, for their beauty and pleasant state; Gilead was a most famous place for balm. The prophet ironically calls to the Egyptians to go to Gilead for balm, but tells them it would be to no purpose, God was about to wound them beyond all help of medicines.
Verse Jeremiah 46:11. _GO UP INTO GILEAD, AND TAKE BALM_] An irony. Egypt is so completely enfeebled by this overthrow, that her political wound is utterly incurable. This figure is used with the more...
BALM - i. e., balsam, the usual remedy for wounds Jeremiah 8:22. IN VAIN SHALT ... - Or, in vain hast thou multiplied medicines: healing-plaster hast thou none. Nothing shall avail to heal the blow....
IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS CHAPTER 46 Concerning Egypt _ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13) 3. A messa...
JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...
GO UP, &C. Figure of speech _Eironeia_, as shown by the rest of the verse. GILEAD. Compare Jeremiah 8:22. TAKE. fetch. FOR THOU SHALT NOT BE CURED. healing there is none for thee. Compare Jeremiah 8...
Co. declines to accept objections which have been brought by some recent commentators to the substantial genuineness of these _vv_., and Gi. on the whole agrees, but considers the passage to have been...
Oracles against foreign nations Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's _Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that the whole or a considerable part of the...
_balm_ See on Jeremiah 8:22; Jeremiah 30:13. Egyptian knowledge of medicine is celebrated by Homer (Obadiah 1:4; Obadiah 1:4:229). Cyrus and Dar
GO UP INTO GILEAD, &C.— The practice of physic was one of the chief arts in Egypt, wherein every distinct distemper had its peculiar physician, who confined himself to the study and care of that alone...
B. The Second Picture of Egyptian Defeat Jeremiah 46:7-12 TRANSLATION (7) Who is this that goes up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the river? (8) Egypt goes up like the Nile and his...
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured. GO UP INTO GILEAD, AND TAKE BALM - (note, ) namely, for curin...
The medical science of Egypt was in high repute....
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
GO UP INTO GILEAD, AND TAKE BALM... — The words have the tone of a triumphant irony. The “balm of Gilead” was looked on as a cure for all wounds (Jeremiah 8:22; Jeremiah 51:8), but the wounds which Eg...
עֲלִ֤י גִלְעָד֙ וּ קְחִ֣י צֳרִ֔י בְּתוּלַ֖ת ב
CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....
The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...
Go up into Gilead, (k) and take balm, O virgin, the (l) daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many (m) medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured. (k) For at Gilead there grew a most sovereign balm...
_Of Egypt; or ye Egyptians, who have been wounded. The balm (Haydock) or resina of Galaad was then very famous, Genesis xxxvii. 25. (Calmet) --- Egypt thought itself invulnerable, and is derided. Its...
At this Chapter begins the judgments of God against the enemies of Israel. The Lord hath had a long controversy with his people; but now in the midst of it, he will reckon with their foes. And first f...
The Prophet adds here nothing new, but confirms by another metaphor what he had said before. He then says, that the slaughter would be like a fatal plague, as though God would take away from the Egypt...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
GO UP INTO GILEAD,.... Still the irony or sarcasm is continued Gilead was a place in the land of Israel famous for balm or balsam, used in curing wounds; see Jeremiah 8:22; hence it follows: AND TAKE...
Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; [for] thou shalt not be cured. Ver. 11. _Go up unto Gilead, and take balm._] See Jer 8:22 cf....
_Go up into Gilead, and take balm_ Gilead was famous for producing balm and such like healing gums: see note on Jeremiah 8:22. The prophet, alluding to the custom of men's going thither for relief in...
Go up into Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt, hitherto not having been subject to any other power; IN VAIN SHALT THOU USE MANY MEDICINES, FOR THOU SHALT NOT BE CURED, the wound inf...
THE FIRST PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
NOT BE CURED: _ Heb._ no cure shall be unto thee...
1-12 The whole word of God is against those who obey not the gospel of Christ; but it is for those, even of the Gentiles, who turn to Him. The prophecy begins with Egypt. Let them strengthen themselve...
Jeremiah 46:11 up H5927 (H8798) Gilead H1568 take H3947 (H8798) balm H6875 virgin H1330 daughter H1323 Egypt...
A). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S DEFEAT OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AT CARCHEMISH IN 605 BC (JEREMIAH 46:2). The importance of this prophesy to a people reeling under the unexpected death of their good...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...
Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jeremiah 4...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations. Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations (Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:11 GILEAD. On the eastern side of the Jordan River. BALM. Soothing substance placed in wounds (Jeremiah 8:2
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of Charchemish. This se...
EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28. Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of miscellaneous prophec...
Ezekiel 27:17; Ezekiel 30:21; Genesis 37:25; Genesis 43:11; Isaia