Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 6:18
Nations — He calls upon the nations round about to be spectators of his severity against Judah. What — The greatness of their punishment, as the effect of the greatness of their sins.
Nations — He calls upon the nations round about to be spectators of his severity against Judah. What — The greatness of their punishment, as the effect of the greatness of their sins.
God summons three witnesses to hear His sentence. (1) the Gentiles. (2) all mankind, Jews and Gentiles. (3) nature (see Jeremiah 6:19). WHAT IS AMONG THEM - Rather, “what happens” in them; i. e., “...
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)...
Jeremiah 6:16. OBEDIENCE MORE THAN SACRIFICE. Yahweh vainly bade the people stand at the parting of the ways (Hebrew, by the ways), and seek the ancient road to prosperity, that they may find repose f...
CONGREGATION. assembly (in its civil aspect). Hebrew. _'edah,_. technical Pentateuchal word. First occurrence in Exodus 12:3; Exodus 12:6; Exodus 12:19; Ex
The third division. See introd. note to the ch....
The Gentiles are summoned to witness the punishment. Cp. Jeremiah 4:16. _O congregation_ The Hebrew word is elsewhere confined to Jews, an application which the parallelism with "nations" here forbid...
THEREFORE HEAR, YE NATIONS— "You, Chaldeans, and all the various people who compose the army coming against Jerusalem; nay, let all the world (Jeremiah 6:19.) be witnesses of the resolutions which I h...
4. _Prescription for deliverance_ (Jeremiah 6:16-21) TRANSLATION (16) Thus said the LORD: Stand along side the ways and observe. Ask for the old ways where the good way is and walk in it and you will...
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. CONGREGATION - parallel to "nations;" it therefore means the gathered peoples who invited to be witnesses how great is the...
6:18 them. (e-12) Or 'nations, and know the testimony that is among them.'...
WHAT _IS_ AMONG THEM] i.e. what is the punishment impending over Judah....
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
THEREFORE HEAR, YE NATIONS... — The obstinate refusal with which the people met the summons of the prophet leads him once more to a solemn appeal (1) to the heathen nations, then (2) to the “congregat...
לָכֵ֖ן שִׁמְע֣וּ הַ גֹּויִ֑ם וּ דְעִ֥י עֵדָ֖ה
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,...
Therefore hear, ye (q) nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them. (q) God takes all the world to witness and the insensible creatures of the ingratitude of the Jews....
_Congregation. Septuagint, "shepherds feeding their flocks have heard." The Chaldeans are apprised of my resolution against Juda. (Calmet) --- After the Jews had been called repeatedly in vain, the Ge...
In what strong terms doth the Lord set forth the folly of outward things, as the incense and the cane, when there was no inward offering of the heart. What are all acts of religion, when there is no r...
He turns now to address the nations, which had never heard anything of true religion. But the design of the apostrophe was, to make the Jews ashamed of their insensibility and deafness, for more atten...
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...
THEREFORE HEAR, YE NATIONS,.... Since the Jews refused to hearken to the word of the Lord, the Gentiles are called upon to hear it, as in Acts 13:45, this is a rebuke to the Jews, that the Gentiles wo...
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them. Ver. 18. _Therefore hear, O ye nations._] For this people will not hear me, though I speak never so good reason. Scaliger _...
_Therefore hear, ye nations_ The very heathen are called upon to take notice of these threatenings and denunciations of God's wrath against the Jews, lest they should think that the calamities which w...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
Therefore hear, ye nations, the Gentile people everywhere, AND KNOW, O CONGREGATION, either the entire assembly of the nations which are here summoned, or the faithful few in Israel who still formed t...
18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
Ver. 18, HEAR, YE NATIONS: he calls upon the nations round about to be as so many spectators of his severity against Judah, though they were his own people. 1. Partly to vindicate the justice of his...
Jeremiah 6:18 hear H8085 (H8798) nations H1471 know H3045 (H8798) congregation H5712 hear -...
YHWH NOW DESCRIBES THE TOTAL INTRANSIGENCE OF HIS PEOPLE AND DISMISSES THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PACIFY HIM BY RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND OFFERINGS, CONFIRMING TO THEM THE JUDGMENT THAT IS INEVITABLY COMING ON THEM...
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...
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 6:18 The NATIONS, CONGREGATION, and EARTH are all called to HEAR God’s testimony against th
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...
Deuteronomy 29:24; Isaiah 5:3; Jeremiah 31:10; Jeremiah 4:10; Micah