Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 16:8
Go — God did not only forbid his prophet to go into houses of mourning, but forbad him to go into houses, where they were wont to eat and drink upon a more chearful account.
Go — God did not only forbid his prophet to go into houses of mourning, but forbad him to go into houses, where they were wont to eat and drink upon a more chearful account.
Verse Jeremiah 16:8. _THOU SHALT NOT ALSO GO INTO THE HOUSE OF FEASTING_] _Funeral banquets_ were made to commemorate the dead, and comfort the surviving relatives; and _the cup of consolation_, stro...
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...
Co. omits the _v_., but on inadequate grounds....
III. PROPHETIC CONDUCT Jeremiah 16:1-21 Jeremiah came through his personal crisis. He repented and God took him back. Now that the rebellious prophet was humble and contrite, God gives him further ins...
Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. THOU SHALL NOT GO INTO THE HOUSE OF FEASTING - joyous, as distinguished from mourning-feasts. Have no more...
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
INTO THE HOUSE OF FEASTING. — Literally, _the house of drinking, i.e.,_ in this case, as interpreted by the next verse, of festive and mirthful gathering. This prohibition follows _à fortiori_ from th...
וּ בֵית ־מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה לֹא ־תָבֹ֖וא לָ שֶׁ֣בֶת
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...
_Feasting. Hebrew, "of drinking," in times of joy._...
As the Lord prohibited the prophet from mourning in Babylon, so, from feasting; both were alike unsuitable, while the Comforter was far away. I pray the Reader to notice in both views the preciousness...
Here the Prophet refers to other feasts, where hilarity prevailed. The meaning then is, — that the people were given up to destruction, so that nothing was better than to depart from them as far as po...
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...
THOU SHALL NOT ALSO GO INTO THE HOUSE OF FEASTING,.... Which it was lawful to do, and which the prophet doubtless had done at other times; but now a time of calamity coming on, it was not proper he sh...
Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. Ver. 8. _Thou shall not also go into the house of feasting._] Ministers may lawfully go to feasts, Joh 2:1-2 b...
_Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting_ God not only forbade his prophet to go into houses of mourning, but forbade him also to go into houses where people were wont to eat and drink on jo...
THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH...
Thou shall not also go into the house of feasting to sit with them to eat and to drink, to attend such a mournful feast of survivors in person and to show sympathy in any form whatever....
1-9 The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his country ruined very shortly. In the prospect of sad times, he is to abstain from marriage, mourning for the dead, and pleasure. Tho...
God did not only forbade his prophet to go into houses of mourning, to eat and to drink according to their custom, to comfort those who had lost their friends; but he forbade him also to go into house...
Jeremiah 16:8 go H935 (H8799) house H1004 feasting H4960 sit H3427 (H8800) eat H398 (H8800) drink...
JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS IN...
THE THIRD SIGN - NON-PARTICIPATION IN CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:8). The third sign was to absent himself from all celebratory feasts, as an indication that the future was so black that there was...
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...
1 Corinthians 5:11; Amos 6:4; Ecclesiastes 7:2; Ephesians 5:11;...