A fan — Not a purging fan by affliction, to separate their chaff and dross from them, but a scattering fan. In the gates — This is added in pursuit of the metaphor of fanning, men usually chusing barn — doors to fan at, that they may have the advantage of the wind.
Verse Jeremiah 15:7. _I WILL FAN THEM WITH A FAN_] There is no pure grain; all is chaff. _IN THE GATES OF THE LAND_] The places of public justice: and there it shall be seen that the judgments that h...
I WILL FAN THEM ... - Or, “I have winnowed them with a winnowing shovel.” The “gates of the land” mean the places by which men enter or leave it. As God winnows them they are driven out of the land th...
CHAPTER 15 The Prophet's Deep Soul-Exercise _ 1. The answer (Jeremiah 15:1) _ 2. The prophet's grief and sorrow and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 15:10) Jeremiah 15:1. The preceding prayer is
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
GATES. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), for cities, or for the outlets of the land. CHILDREN. sons....
See introd. summary to section....
_I have fanned them with a fan_ "Fan, whether verb or noun, is now practically obsolete in the sense here intended." Dr. p. 360. We should rather render, _Have winnowed them with a winnowing-fork_. Th...
AND I WILL FAN THEM— The simile is taken from a man who stands in the gate of his threshing-floor, to separate with his fan the chaff from the wheat; God denouncing that he would cast the people of Ju...
E. The Final Rejection of Prophetic Intercession Jeremiah 15:1-9 TRANSLATION (1) And the LORD said unto me: If Moses and Samuel were standing before Me, I would have no affection for this people. Ca...
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways. I WILL FAN THEM WITH A FAN - tribulation...
They shall be dispersed and driven forth from the land by every way of exit....
1-9. The coming woes described....
I WILL FAN THEM WITH A FAN. — The image is, of course, the familiar one of the threshing-floor and the winnowing-fan or shovel (Psalms 1:4; Psalms 35:5; Matthew 3:12). The tenses should be past in bot...
וָ אֶזְרֵ֥ם בְּ מִזְרֶ֖ה בְּ שַׁעֲרֵ֣י הָ
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
To this great appeal Jehovah again replied by declaring mercy to be impossible, and judgment inevitable, and this on account of the sin of Manasseh which had been persisted in, namely, the rejection o...
And I will fan them with a fan (f) in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways. (f) Meaning, the cities....
_Will, or "have scattered" the ten tribes, and many of Juda, before the last siege. (Calmet)_...
These judgments had their accomplishment, in the captivity that followed, when the people were carried away to Babylon....
He confirms here the same truth. The verb which I have rendered in the future may be rendered in the past tense, but I still think it to be a prediction of what was to come. But as to what follows, _I...
The beginning of chapter 15 is an answer to the close of chapter 14; but the instruction and the principles it contains are very remarkable. Jehovah declares that if Moses and Samuel (whose love for I...
I WILL FAN THEM WITH A FAN IN THE GATES OF THE LAND,.... Either of their own land, the land of Judea; and so the Septuagint version, "in the gates of my people"; alluding to the custom of winnowing co...
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave [them] of children, I will destroy my people, [since] they return not from their ways. Ver. 7. _And I will fan them with a fan....
_Thou hast forsaken me, thou art gone backward_ God here, by more expressions of the same import with many that we have before met with, declares his steady resolution to destroy them for their aposta...
THE LORD REFUSES HELP THE SECOND TIME...
And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; even as a man at the opening of a threshing-floor makes use of every gust of wind to remove the chaff from the wheat, so the Lord would stand a...
CHILDREN: Or, whatsoever is dear...
1-9 The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The putting of this as a case, though they should stand before him, shows that they do not, and that saints in heaven do no...
I WILL FAN THEM WITH A FAN IN THE GATES OF THE LAND; not a purging fan by affliction, to separate their chaff and dross from them, but a scattering fan. Some translate it _into the gates of the earth_...
Jeremiah 15:7 winnow H2219 (H8799) fan H4214 gates H8179 land H776 bereave H7921 (H8765) destroy H6 ...
YHWH'S RESPONSE TO JEREMIAH'S PLEA IS OF THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY AND AWFULNESS OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 15:1). In the face of Jeremiah's plea YHWH now makes clear that nothing can now stop His...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought, concluded. The people abandoned to ruin. Jeremiah complains of his hardships. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Moses, Samuel. CONCLUSION: Miserable is the case of those w...
Jeremiah 15:1. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,_ as when Moses by his prayers saved the nation, Exodus 32:11, and Samuel in Mizpeh was heard, when the Lord terrified the Philistine armies by...
_Thou hast forsaken Me._ GOD FORSAKING AND GOD FORSAKEN I. A God-forsaking people. Conviction by God Himself of this great folly and sin. In Jeremiah 2:13, the charge is more complete. Creation is c...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 15:7 The primary reason for punishment was that THEY DID NOT TURN FROM THEIR WAYS. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES—For _Chronology of the Chapter and Historical Facts_, see on chap. Jeremiah 10:5 _in loc_. 1. PERSONAL ALLUSIONS. Jeremiah 15:1. “_Moses and Samuel_,” here mentioned as h...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 15:1 Second rejection of Jeremiah's intercession; awfulness of the impending judgment. JEREMIAH 15:1 THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL, etc. It is a mere supposition which is here made; t...
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go foRuth (Jeremiah 15:1). Now it is interesti...
Amos 4:10; Ezekiel 24:21; Ezekiel 24:25; Hosea 9:12; Isaiah 41:16;...