Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 33:5
They — The Jews sally out and fight with their enemies, but to no purpose, but to fill their houses with their own dead bodies, whom I will cause in my anger to be slain.
They — The Jews sally out and fight with their enemies, but to no purpose, but to fill their houses with their own dead bodies, whom I will cause in my anger to be slain.
Render, They, i. e., the Jews come to fight with the Chaldaeans, and to fill them, i. e., the houses, with the dead bodies etc....
CHAPTER 33 New Message of Restoration and Blessing _ 1. The call to pray and Jerusalem's overthrow (Jeremiah 33:1) _ 2. Future blessing and glory (Jeremiah 33:6) 3. The Branch of Righteousness; Je...
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THEY COME: i.e. the demolished houses are coming to be used for defense, &c. For this sense of "come", see Mark 4:21 (Greek) WITH. Some codices, with two early printed editions and Septuagint, read ...
These _vv_., as they stand, are evidently corrupt; for "they" (seeing that the word cannot, as strict grammar demands, mean "the houses"), as applied to the defenders of the city, would require the ve...
See introd. summary to section....
_have hid my face_ in displeasure. Cp. Deuteronomy 31:17 and elsewhere....
2. _General promises_ (Jeremiah 33:4-13) TRANSLATION (4) For thus says the Lord the God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been torn down s...
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this ci...
33:5 men (a-18) The _ Adam_ , as Genesis 1:27 ....
THEY] the besieged. The only result of their fighting is that they fill these houses with the slain....
1-13. Restoration and honour again promised....
THEY COME TO FIGHT WITH THE CHALDEANS... — The Hebrew construction is participial, and has the force expressed in English by “they” used indefinitely. The prophet sees, as it were, a _sortie_ of the b...
בָּאִ֗ים לְ הִלָּחֵם֙ אֶת ־הַ כַּשְׂדִּ֔ים וּ
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Following the story of the purchase of the field in Anathoth, with its signification, is a song of the ultimate restoration therein foretold. The song first celebrates the restoration of the people an...
They come to (d) fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my (e) face from...
Some of Paul the Apostle's sweetest Epistles and preaching was when he was shut up in prison: witness to the Church of the Philippians, and his preaching to the jailor, Acts 16:1. And certainly Jeremi...
There are two parts to this prophecy, — that the Jews were about to perish through their own fault, — and that they were to be restored through the favor and goodness of God alone. Here, then, in the...
Chapter 33 repeats with ample and rich abundance the testimony to these blessings, and dwells particularly on the presence of the Messiah; it announces that the branch of righteousness shall grow up u...
THEY COME TO FIGHT WITH THE CHALDEANS,.... Either the Jews out of the country, or their auxiliaries, their neighbours, to oblige them to break up the siege; but all to no purpose: or rather the Jews w...
They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but [it is] to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this c...
_Thus saith the Lord concerning the houses of this city_ Not excepting those _of the kings of Judah, thrown down by the mounts_ Namely, by the battering engines placed upon the mounts, which were rais...
they come to fight with the Chaldeans, the people of Judah being determined to resist the hostile army, BUT IT IS TO FILL THEM, namely, the houses of the city, WITH THE DEAD BODIES OF MEN, WHOM I HAVE...
THE CONTRAST BETWEEN DESTRUCTION AND RESTORATION...
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It is very difficult to determine whether these words contain an entire sense in themselves, or what connexion they have with the foregoing words: not to repeat men's diverse apprehensions, of which a...
Jeremiah 33:5 come H935 (H8802) fight H3898 (H8736) Chaldeans H3778 fill H4390 (H8763) bodies H6297 men...
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EXPOSITION A chapter of promises, having reference, first, to the people and kingdom in general (Jeremiah 33:4), and then to the royal and priestly offices in particular (Jeremiah 33:14). The first pa...
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying, Thus saith the LORD the maker, the LORD that formed it, to establish it;...
Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 32:20; Ezekiel 39:23; Ezekiel 39:24;...
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