Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 32:24
The mounts — Rather engines of war with which those nations used to batter walls, or to shoot great stones into places besieged.
The mounts — Rather engines of war with which those nations used to batter walls, or to shoot great stones into places besieged.
Verse Jeremiah 32:24. _BEHOLD THE MOUNTS_] The huge terraces raised up to plant their engines on, that they might throw darts, stones, c., into the city. _BECAUSE OF THE SWORD, AND OF THE FAMINE, AN...
THE MOUNTS - See Jeremiah 6:6 note....
CHAPTER 32 Jeremiah in Prison _ 1. Shut up in the court of the prison (Jeremiah 32:1) _ 2. The revelation of the Lord concerning Hanameel (Jeremiah 32:6) 3. The prophet's prayer (Jeremiah 32
JEREMIAH 32:16 (a later Deuteronomistic expansion, except perhaps in Jeremiah 32:24 f.). Prayer of Jeremiah, reviewing the Divine characteristics, and Yahweh's control of Israel's history, up to the p...
MOUNTS. Erections of earth raised by the enemy to overtop the walls. Compare Jeremiah 6:6, and Jeremiah 33:4....
See introd. summary to the section....
_the mounts_ See on ch. Jeremiah 6:6. _are come unto the city_ The enemy have pushed them forward so that they already reach to the walls. _is given_ The thing is virtually done, there being a compl...
BEHOLD THE MOUNTS— See Isaiah 37:33 where the same word is used....
C. The Prayer for Further Explanation Jeremiah 32:16-25 TRANSLATION (16) Then I prayed unto the LORD after I had given the deed of purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, saying, (17) Ah, O Lord GOD!...
Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence:...
32:24 mounds, (b-3) i.e. mounds cast up by the besiegers....
MOUNTS] see on Jeremiah 6:6. 26-35. The first part of God's reply, viz. judgment. 36-44. The second part of God's reply, viz. mercy....
This chapter forms the introduction to the most continuously historical part of the book, which describes incidents in the two years preceding the final destruction of Jerusalem, viz. chs. 34-43. The...
BEHOLD THE MOUNTS... — The mounts (better, _mounds_) are (as in Jeremiah 6:6, where see Note) the banks or towers of wood which formed the chief part of ancient siege operations. What the prophet had...
הִנֵּ֣ה הַ סֹּלְלֹ֗ות בָּ֣אוּ הָ עִיר֮ לְ
CHAPTER XXX RESTORATION I THE SYMBOL Jeremiah 32:1 "And I bought the field of Hanameel."- Jeremiah 32:9 WHEN Jeremiah was first called to his prophetic mission, after the charge "to pluck up and t...
The next of the prophecies of hope consists of the account of Jeremiah's purchase of a field in Anathoth, with the interpretation of the suggestiveness of the action. While he was still in prison thro...
Behold the (l) mounts, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence...
_By. Literally, "at the presence of the sword," or by its force, Psalm lix. 6. (Worthington)_...
What a beautiful view is here given of the piety and faith of the Prophet! With what zeal and earnestness doth he set his heart to seek the Lord. Though all his remonstrances and entreaties had failed...
Here then at length the Prophet discovers his own perplexity. We have already stated the reason why he made so long an introduction before he came to the main thing: it was necessary for him to put on...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
BEHOLD, THE MOUNTS, THEY ARE COME UNTO THE CITY, TO TAKE IT,.... These were ramparts or batteries, that were erected against the city, the more easily to annoy it: some take them to be engines from wh...
Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence:...
_And they came in and possessed it_ In the former two verses he acknowledges God's goodness to Israel, here he owns his truth and faithfulness in bringing them into the land which he had promised them...
Jeremiah's Prayer and Jehovah's Answer...
Behold the mounts, the ramparts of the besieging army as it prepared to take the city, THEY ARE COME UNTO THE CITY TO TAKE IT, AND THE CITY IS GIVEN INTO THE HAND OF THE CHALDEANS THAT FIGHT AGAINST I...
MOUNTS: Or, engines of shot...
16-25 Jeremiah adores the Lord and his infinite perfections. When at any time we are perplexed about the methods of Providence, it is good for us to look to first principles. Let us consider that God...
MOUNTS; the word signifies _ramparts_, or rather _battering rams_, engines of war, which those nations used to batter walls, or to shoot great stones into places besieged. THEY ARE COME UNTO THE CITY...
Jeremiah 32:24 mounds H5550 come H935 (H8804) city H5892 take H3920 (H8800) city H5892 given...
JEREMIAH QUESTIONS YHWH AS TO WHY HE HAS COMMANDED HIM TO DO THIS STRANGE THING OF BUYING LAND IF THE LAND WAS IN FACT SIMPLY GOING TO BE TAKEN OVER BY THE CHALDEANS. HE MAY WELL HAVE WONDERED WHETHER...
JEREMIAH IS COMMANDED BY YHWH TO DEMONSTRATE HIS CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE OF JUDAH BY BUYING LAND FROM HIS COUSIN HANAMEL ON THE DEATH OF HIS UNCLE. BUT EVEN JEREMIAH IS PUZZLED BY IT AND IT DRIVES HI...
SUB-PART A. AFTER ITS DESTRUCTION JERUSALEM WILL ONE DAY BE RESTORED, SOMETHING GUARANTEED TO JEREMIAH IN A SYMBOLIC ACT OF PURCHASING FAMILY LAND (JEREMIAH 32:1). Jeremiah is commanded to buy an here...
MOUNTS Or, engines of shot....
Jeremiah 32:6. _And Jeremiah, said, The word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for...
Jeremiah 32:1. The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. For then the king of Babylon's army besieged J...
CONTENTS: Sign of the field of Hanameel. Jeremiah's second persecution, his prayer and Jehovah's answer. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Nebuchadnezzar, Hanameel, Baruch. CONCLUSION: When we are...
Jeremiah 32:1. _The eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar._ This name, which in Hebrew signifies groaning and complaint, aptly describes the miseries he inflicted on the nations. Like an inundation he rav...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 32:24 WHAT YOU SPOKE HAS COME TO PASS. All God’s threats, beginning with Jeremiah 1:9, were fulfilled....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—“Tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, and eighteenth of Nebuchadnezzar” (Jeremiah 32:1). _Cf_. note on chronology of chap. 25: “this eight...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah was far from wishing to depress his fellow countrymen to the point of disbelieving in the inalienable promises of God to Israel, He fully recognized an element of truth in the prea...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar (Jeremiah 32:1). Now in the eleventh year of Zedekiah is when...
Deuteronomy 31:16; Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 32:24; Deuteronomy 32:25;...