Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 6:13
Falsely — Heb. doing falsehood, as if that were their whole work, the proper sin of the priests and prophets, to deceive the people, and to flatter them by false visions.
Falsely — Heb. doing falsehood, as if that were their whole work, the proper sin of the priests and prophets, to deceive the people, and to flatter them by false visions.
GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS - literally, everyone has gained gains. The temper of mind which gains the world is not that which gains heaven. FALSELY - Rather, “fraudulently.”...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _ 2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9) 3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his wo...
COVETOUSNESS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 18:21). App-92....
These verses are almost identical with ch. Jeremiah 8:10-12, where they are probably a later insertion....
_from the least of them even unto the greatest_ Cp. Jeremiah 5:5....
See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again. Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited the Northern tribes, but many times....
3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15) TRANSLATION (9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. (; , "Greedy dogs which can never...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
IS GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS. — Literally, _gained gain._ The Hebrew word (as in Genesis 37:26; Job 22:2) does not necessarily involve the idea of dishonest gain, though this (as in Proverbs 1:19;...
כִּ֤י מִ קְּטַנָּם֙ וְ עַד ־גְּדֹולָ֔ם כֻּלֹּ
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
_Prophet. Septuagint, "false prophet," chap. iv. 31. (Haydock)_...
All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...
The Prophet now again declares, that it was nothing strange that God resolved to deal with so much severity with that people, and to execute on them extreme vengeance; for no part was whole and sound,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
FOR FROM THE LEAST OF THEM EVEN UNTO THE GREATEST OF THEM,.... From the least in age to the oldest among them; or rather, from persons of the lowest class of life, and in the meanest circumstances, to...
_For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one [is] given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely._ Ver. 13. _Every one is given to...
_For, from the least of them_, &c. Old and young, rich and poor, high and low, those of all ranks, professions, and employments; _every one is given to covetousness_ Greedy of filthy lucre; and this m...
THE PROPHET VOICES THE FURY OF THE LORD...
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them, all classes of people, those of no influence as well as the powerful and mighty, EVERY ONE IS GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS, the love of money suppre...
9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin b...
FROM THE LEAST OF THEM; not respecting so much their age as degree and quality, poor and rich; the prophet notes the generality of their corruption as the reason of God's severity against them, as JER...
Jeremiah 6:13 least H6996 greatest H1419 given H1214 (H8802) covetousness H1215 prophet H5030 priest H3548 deals H6213
IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given the reas...
JEREMIAH IS CALLED ONCE MORE TO SIFT JERUSALEM FOR RIGHTEOUS MEN AND HIS RESPONSE DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS DESPAIRING OF EVER FINDING ONE AS HE SUMS UP THEIR FALLEN STATE AND CALLS ON YHWH TO FULFIL HI...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that should come because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking people,...
Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_ [of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem, ac...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:13 Greed always leads to seeking UNJUST GAIN. PROPHET... PRIEST. These religious leaders are as greedy as the people. Thus, they promise PEACE rather
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small town of defenc...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. JEREMIAH 6:1 Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
1 Timothy 3:3; 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Peter 2:15; 2 Peter 2:3; Ezekiel 22:12;