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Verse Jeremiah 6:23. _THEY SHALL LAY HOLD ON BOW AND SPEAR_] Still
pointing out the Chaldeans: or according to _Dahler_, the _Scythians_,
who had before their invasion of Palestine overrun many parts...
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SPEAR - Properly, a javelin for hurling at the enemy (see 1 Samuel
17:6 note): an ordinary weapon of the Babylonians.
CRUEL - ruthless, inhuman. In the Assyrian monuments warriors put the
vanquished t...
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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)...
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THE FOE FROM THE NORTH is again described (_cf._ Jeremiah 5:15) in his
advance against Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:22). Its inhabitants utter their
dismay (wax feeble, Jeremiah 6:24; Heb. are slack). The pr...
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ROARETH. will roar. Compare Isaiah 5:29; Isaiah 5:30. Compare Isaiah
5:29.
MEN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14...
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The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
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_set in array, as a man to the battle_ EQUIPPED AS A MAN FOR WAR....
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A large part of ch. 50 reads as an expansion of these _vv_....
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5. _Description of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:22-26)
TRANSLATION
(22) Thus said the LORD: Behold, a people is about to come from a
north land, a great nation shall be aroused from the uttermost parts
of th...
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They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no
mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses,
set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion....
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The Assyrian monuments show us rows of impaled victims hanging round
the walls of besieged towns, also men collecting in heaps hands cut
off from the vanquished enemy....
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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BOW AND SPEAR. — As before (Jeremiah 5:16), the special weapons of
the Chaldæans. The “spear” was a javelin, shot or hurled against
the enemy.
CRUEL. — The ferocity of the Chaldæans seems to have been...
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קֶ֣שֶׁת וְ כִידֹ֞ון יַחֲזִ֗יקוּ
אַכְזָרִ֥י הוּא֙...
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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
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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,...
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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...
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He adds other particulars, in order more fully to render the Chaldeans
objects of dread: _They shall lay hold, _he says, _on the bow and the
lance _They who render the last word shield, do not suffici...
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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...
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THEY SHALL LAY HOLD ON BOW AND SPEAR,.... That is, everyone of them
should be furnished with both these pieces of armour, that they might
be able to fight near and afar off; they had bows to shoot arr...
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_Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people_ I will suffer
such things to be laid in their way as shall be the occasion of their
destruction. Or, I will bring calamities upon them, by whic...
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THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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They shall lay hold on bow and spear, as weapons of offense, of
powerful attack; THEY ARE CRUEL AND HAVE NO MERCY, giving no quarter,
determined on merciless extinction; THEIR VOICE ROARETH LIKE THE S...
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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...
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OLBHeb;
THEY SHALL LAY HOLD ON BOW AND SPEAR; or, They shall _carry_; they
shall not want military ammunition of all sorts for the despatch of
this great work; synecdochically expressed for all sorts...
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Jeremiah 6:23 hold H2388 (H8686) bow H7198 spear H3591 cruel H394
mercy H7355 (H8762) voice H6963 roars...
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YHWH NOW DESCRIBES THE TOTAL INTRANSIGENCE OF HIS PEOPLE AND DISMISSES
THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PACIFY HIM BY RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND OFFERINGS,
CONFIRMING TO THEM THE JUDGMENT THAT IS INEVITABLY COMING ON THEM...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:22 GREAT NATION. Babylon. THE FARTHEST
PARTS OF THE EARTH. Babylon’s army had outposts all over the ancient
world. This army has NO MERCY. Its...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Ezekiel 23:22; Habakkuk 1:6; Isaiah 13:18; Isaiah 19:4; Isaiah 5:26