Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 46:12
Stumbled — Stumbling one upon another, so that both those that went before, and those who followed after, should fall together.
Stumbled — Stumbling one upon another, so that both those that went before, and those who followed after, should fall together.
Verse Jeremiah 46:12. _THE NATIONS HAVE HEARD OF THY SHAME_] Of thy disgrace, by this prodigious slaughter of thy troops....
THE LAND - The earth; the world rings with the cry of grief. AGAINST THE MIGHTY - Against the mighty man, i. e., one mighty man against another. The champions hired to fight Egypt’s battle get in one...
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...
LAND. earth....
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...
_thy shame_ The LXX, "thy voice," requires but a slight alteration of MT. and one which improves the parallelism. _the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty_ The heroes fighting on the Egyptian...
THY SHAME— _Thy disgrace._...
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...
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together. THE MIGHTY MAN HATH STUMBLED AGAINST...
THE LAND] RV 'the earth.'...
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
שָׁמְע֤וּ גֹויִם֙ קְלֹונֵ֔ךְ וְ צִוְחָתֵ֖ךְ מָלְאָ֣ה...
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...
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...
He concludes this prophecy by saying that the report of this slaughter would be everywhere known among all nations. Had the Egyptians sustained only a small loss, the thing might have been unknown, as...
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...
THE NATIONS HAVE HEARD OF THY SHAME,.... Their shameful defeat and overthrow by the Chaldean army; so, after the manner of prophecy, the thing is related as done; the battle fought, and the victory ob...
The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, [and] they are fallen both together. Ver. 12. _The nations have heard of th...
_Go up into Gilead, and take balm_ Gilead was famous for producing balm and such like healing gums: see note on Jeremiah 8:22. The prophet, alluding to the custom of men's going thither for relief in...
THE FIRST PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
The nations have heard of thy shame, the humiliation which would come upon her by this defeat, AND THY CRY HATH FILLED THE LAND, as the stricken ones made known their misery; FOR THE MIGHTY MAN HATH S...
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...
The prophet keepeth to his old prophetic style, speaking of things that were to come to pass some years after as if they were already past, because of the certainty of them; in this sense he saith oth...
Jeremiah 46:12 nations H1471 heard H8085 (H8804) shame H7036 cry H6682 filled H4390 (H8804) land H776 man...
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...
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
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...
1 Samuel 5:12; Ezekiel 32:9; Isaiah 10:4; Isaiah 15:5; Isaiah 19:2;...