I will recompense — Before I will restore them, I will plentifully punish them, (for so double here signifies, not the double of what their sins deserve.) Defiled — By their idolatry, blood and cruelty. Detestable — Unclean beasts offered to their idols, or innocent persons slain by them.
Verse Jeremiah 16:18. _THE CARCASSES OF THEIR DETESTABLE - THINGS._] Either meaning the _idols_ themselves, which were only _carcasses_ without life; or the _sacrifices_ which were made to them....
FIRST - Before the return from exile. I WILL RECOMPENSE THEIR INIQUITY ... DOUBLE - The ordinary rule of the Law (Isaiah 40:2 note). Sin is twofold; there is the leaving of God’s will undone, and the...
THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
DOUBLE. See note on Isaiah 40:2....
Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
See introd. summary to section....
_first_ The word (_rî"shônah_) is not found in LXX, and was probably inserted after Jeremiah 16:14 f. had been introduced into the text. Co. however thinks it is a corruption of the frequent expressio...
I WILL RECOMPENSE—DOUBLE— This phrase signifies, to punish with severity. See ch. Jeremiah 17:18 and Isaiah 40:2. _The carcases of their detestable things,_ means their idols, which are called carcase...
C. Explanation on Behalf of the Prophet Jeremiah 16:14-18 TRANSLATION (14) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no more be said, As the LORD lives who brought us up fr...
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things. FI...
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
I WILL RECOMPENSE THEIR INIQUITY AND THEIR SIN DOUBLE. — A restitution, or fine, to double the amount of the wrong done was almost the normal standard of punishment under the Law of Moses (Exodus 22:4...
וְ שִׁלַּמְתִּ֣י רִֽאשֹׁונָ֗ה מִשְׁנֵ֤ה עֲוֹנָם֙ וְ...
The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled my inheritance with the (h) carcases of their detestable and abominable things. (h...
_Double: enormous. (Haydock) (Chap. xvii. 18.) --- I will punish them doubly. --- Carcasses. So he styles the victims, or idols, the representations of dead men._...
Are not those fishers in allusion to what Christ said of his Apostles, Matthew 4:19. And is not the recompense the Lord is here said to make to their sin, that wound of the spirit, which the Holy Ghos...
Jeremiah introduces here nothing new, but proceeds with the subject we observed in the last verse, — that God would not deal with so much severity with the Jews, because extreme rigor was pleasing to...
In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...
AND FIRST I WILL RECOMPENSE THEIR INIQUITY AND THEIR SIN DOUBLE,.... Or, "but first I will recompense", c. f meaning, before he showed favour to them, and returned their captivity, Jeremiah 16:15, he...
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things. Ver....
_Behold, I will send_, &c. This may be better rendered, _But now I will send_, &c. Because here the prophet returns to denounce threatenings; _many fishers, and they shall fish them_ “It is common wit...
REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
And first, that is, to begin with, I WILL RECOMPENSE THEIR INIQUITY AND THEIR SIN DOUBLE, in twice the measure in which they committed their wicked deeds; BECAUSE THEY HAVE DEFILED MY LAND, desecratin...
14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from an...
Before I will restore them, and return in my wonted favour to them, I will punish them for their ways which 1 have seen, which are ways of iniquity, and will plentifully punish them; (for so DOUBLE he...
Jeremiah 16:18 first H7223 repay H7999 (H8765) double H4932 iniquity H5771 sin H2403 defiled H2490 (H8763) land
WHAT JEREMIAH IS TO ANSWER ONCE HE HAS GIVEN HIS EXPLANATION AS TO WHY HE IS ABSTAINING FROM MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, FROM ALL FORMS OF MOURNING, AND FROM ALL CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:10). Wit...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...
Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...
Ezekiel 11:18; Ezekiel 11:21; Ezekiel 43:7; Isaiah 24:5; Isaiah 40:2