Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 46:10
Made drunk — These phrases only metaphorically signify, the great slaughter God would make that day amongst the Egyptians.
Made drunk — These phrases only metaphorically signify, the great slaughter God would make that day amongst the Egyptians.
Verse Jeremiah 46:10. _FOR THIS_ IS _THE DAY OF THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS_] The prophet represents this as a _mighty sacrifice_, where innumerable victims were slain....
Rather, But that “day belongeth to the Lord Yahweh of hosts.” They march forth in haughty confidence, but that day, the day to which they are looking forward in proud hope of victory, is Yahweh’s day,...
IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS CHAPTER 46 Concerning Egypt _ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13) 3. A messa...
JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...
THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. baoth. App-4. See note on Jeremiah 2:19. A DAY OF VENGEANCE. On the Egyptians. MADE DRUNK. bathed. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:42). HATH. SA...
Oracles against foreign nations Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's _Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that the whole or a considerable part of the...
Co. declines to accept objections which have been brought by some recent commentators to the substantial genuineness of these _vv_., and Gi. on the whole agrees, but considers the passage to have been...
_For_ rather, BUT. For the language here cp. Isaiah 34:5-6; Isaiah 34:8. The expression of fierce vengeance, adduced by Schwally and others (see introd. notes) as an argument for rejecting the passage...
FOR THIS IS THE DAY OF THE LORD— That is, as it follows, _the day of his vengeance;_ hence _the day of the Lord_ is used in the New Testament to signify the day of judgment: the same phrase of _a sacr...
B. The Second Picture of Egyptian Defeat Jeremiah 46:7-12 TRANSLATION (7) Who is this that goes up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the river? (8) Egypt goes up like the Nile and his...
For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for t...
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
A DAY OF VENGEANCE] on the Egyptians. They are to be the SACRIFICE, because of their treachery to Judah....
THIS IS THE DAY OF THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS. — The prophet contemplates the issue of all these great preparations, and sees that they will end in a disastrous overthrow, the righteous retribution for lon...
וְֽ הַ יֹּ֨ום הַ ה֜וּא לַ אדֹנָ֧י
CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....
The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...
For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satisfied and made drunk with their blood: fo...
_Devour. It seems animated, and eager to slay the victim, Ezechiel xxxix. 17._...
At this Chapter begins the judgments of God against the enemies of Israel. The Lord hath had a long controversy with his people; but now in the midst of it, he will reckon with their foes. And first f...
The Prophet having described the terrible forces of Pharaoh, in which he so trusted, that he dared to boast of a certain victory, now says that the event would be very different: _But this day, he say...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
FOR THIS [IS] THE DAY OF THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS,.... Or, "but this is the day" y, c. notwithstanding this great apparatus for war, and those many auxiliaries the Egyptians would have, yet it would not...
For this [is] the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for...
_Who is this that cometh up as a flood_ Here the king of Egypt is compared to a mighty river, the Nile, or the Euphrates, when it swells above its banks, and threatens to overwhelm the country with ru...
THE FIRST PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, the great Commander of the heavenly armies, A DAY OF VENGEANCE, THAT HE MAY AVENGE HIM OF HIS ADVERSARIES, the Egyptians belonging to this class, not only...
1-12 The whole word of God is against those who obey not the gospel of Christ; but it is for those, even of the Gentiles, who turn to Him. The prophecy begins with Egypt. Let them strengthen themselve...
Or, BUT THIS IS THE DAY OF THE LORD, & c. Pharaoh is mistaken in accounting this day his own, because of the multitude of his forces, this is THE DAY OF THE LORD, who as he is the Lord of all the host...
Jeremiah 46:10 day H3117 Lord H136 GOD H3069 hosts H6635 day H3117 vengeance H5360 avenge H5358 (H8736) adversar
YHWH CHALLENGES THEM AND DARES THEM TO GO FORTH TO WHAT IS TO BE HIS DAY, A DAY OF VENGEANCE AND SACRIFICE (JEREMIAH 46:9). But YHWH saw things differently. The Egyptian Army was composed largely of m...
A). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S DEFEAT OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AT CARCHEMISH IN 605 BC (JEREMIAH 46:2). The importance of this prophesy to a people reeling under the unexpected death of their good...
DAY OF THE LORD See Day (of Jehovah) note, (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 2:12). _...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...
Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jeremiah 4...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations. Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations (Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:10 DAY OF THE LORD. The day that GOD judges Egypt by sending Babylon against them. See The Day of the Lord in the Prophets.
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of Charchemish. This se...
EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28. Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of miscellaneous prophec...
2 Kings 24:7; Deuteronomy 32:42; Ezekiel 39:17; Isaiah 13:6; I