Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 46:17
Pharaoh — Hath made a great noise, but it cometh to nothing. Passed — That is, he hath passed the time himself fixed when he would cone, and fight the Chaldeans.
Pharaoh — Hath made a great noise, but it cometh to nothing. Passed — That is, he hath passed the time himself fixed when he would cone, and fight the Chaldeans.
Verse Jeremiah 46:17. _THEY DID CRY THERE_] Dr. _Blayney_ translates this cry thus: - _______ "O Pharaoh, king of Egypt, A tumult hath frustrated the appointed meeting." These allies sent their ex...
Translate it with the versions: “They have called (or, Call ye) the name of Pharaoh king of Egypt - A noise: he hath overstepped the appointed time.” For this custom of giving prophetic names see Jere...
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...
NOISE. sound. PASSED. let pass over. Compare 2 Samuel 20:5....
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...
See introd. note to the ch. and summary. Gi. rejects as later all that follows Jeremiah 46:12 as involving repetitions, looseness of structure, and vagueness in style, criticisms which (see note on Je...
_They cried there … a noise_ Read, _Call ye the name of Pharaoh_(so far accord Syr. and Vulg., and so the LXX, who add Neco) _a Crash_. Thus Dr., who compares for a name symbolical of a great disaster...
THEY DID CRY THERE, &C.— _They cried there to Pharaoh, king of Egypt; the storm or shock has already passed the appointed time._ Houbigant. See Isaiah 10:3....
A. The Certainty of Invasion Jeremiah 46:13-19 TRANSLATION (13) The word which the LORD spake unto Jeremiah concerning the coming of Nebuchadnezzar and his smiting of the land of Egypt. (14) Declare...
II. THE SECOND ORACLE CONCERNING EGYPT Jeremiah 46:13-26 The second poem concerning Egypt points to an invasion of that land by Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 46:13). It is impossible to ascertain the date...
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. THEY DID CRY THERE - in their own country severally, the foreign soldiers (Jeremiah 46:16) cry, "Pharao...
THE TIME APPOINTED] the period of grace is over....
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
THEY DID CRY THERE... — Better, Th_ere they cry..._ The difficulty of the verse has led to very various renderings. The meaning of the English version is that the exiles returning to their own land wo...
קָרְא֖וּ שָׁ֑ם פַּרְעֹ֤ה מֶֽלֶךְ ־מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ שָׁאֹ֔ון...
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...
They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he (o) hath passed the time appointed. (o) He derides them who blame their overthrow on lack of counsel and policy, or to fortune and not obs...
Pharao. Septuagint add, "Nechao." But Apries seems rather to be meant. (Calmet) --- A. Hebrew shaon hehebir hamohed. Protestants, " is but a noise, he hath passed the time appointed;" (Haydock) or, "t...
If the Reader will compare scripture with scripture, which is always the most profitable way of reading the word of God; he will find, that what Jeremiah is here engaged in, Isaiah had been before him...
This verse ought to be joined with the preceding, for he refers to the cries of the soldiers who had been deceived by their own hopes: they at length _cried, Pharaoh is to us a king of confusion. _The...
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...
THEY DID CRY THERE,.... Not the Chaldeans, deriding Pharaoh and his army, and mocking them, saying the following words, as some; nor the Egyptians in Egypt, as Kimchi, complaining of their king; much...
They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. Ver. 17. _Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise,_] _a_ A mere flash, one that vaunteth and vapoureth, and...
_He made many to fall_ Or, as the Vulgate renders הרבה כושׁל, _multiplicavit ruentes, he multiplied those falling_, or more literally, _the faller_, as in the margin, the word being singular. Blaney c...
They did cry there, namely, the people who were in Egypt at the time of this great calamity, PHARAOH, KING OF EGYPT, IS BUT A NOISE, or "is destruction, ruin," since his overthrow was evidently a matt...
THE SECOND PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
13-28 Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the...
That is, the Ethiopians and Lubims that should come to help the king of Egypt should cry, or the Chaldeans or the Egyptians themselves should cry, Pharaoh is but a noise, that is, hath made a great no...
Jeremiah 46:17 cried H7121 (H8804) Pharaoh H6547 king H4428 Egypt H4714 noise H7588 passed H5674 (H8689) time...
B). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S LATER PENETRATION INTO EGYPT WHICH WILL NOT HOWEVER BE TERMINAL (JEREMIAH 46:13). This prophecy here has in mind a much later excursion of Nebuchadrezzar against...
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...
_Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise._ RELIGIOUS JUDGMENTS How the Bible can torment its adversaries!--mock them, contemn them, dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Yet it is never mere conte...
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 Kings 20:10; 1 Kings 20:18; Exodus 15:9; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 31:18