Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 6:21
I will say — I will suffer such things to be laid in their way, as shall be the occasion of their destruction. The neighbour — Men of all sorts and conditions.
I will say — I will suffer such things to be laid in their way, as shall be the occasion of their destruction. The neighbour — Men of all sorts and conditions.
“Behold,” I give unto “this people” causes of stumbling, And they shall stumble against them: Fathers and sons together, “The neighbor and his friend shall perish.” This is the natural consequence...
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...
TOWER. watchtower; or, an assayer. TRY. assay (as an assayer of metals). WAY. Some codices read "heart"....
The third division. See introd. note to the ch....
_stumblingblocks_ The enemy shall trip them up in their easygoing ways. Cp. Jeremiah 6:15....
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 thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish. STUMBLIN...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
STUMBLINGBLOCKS, etc.] the enemy's invasion, which would, as it were, trip them up in their easy-going ways. 22-24. The approaching invader. These vv. are repeated with necessary changes in Jeremiah...
AND THE FATHERS AND THE SONS TOGETHER... — Better, _I give unto this people stumbling blocks, and they shall stumble over them: fathers and sons together, neighbour and his friend, shall perish. _...
לָכֵ֗ן כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנְנִ֥י נֹתֵ֛ן א
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,...
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...
Here God, in plain words, declares what vengeance he would execute on the people. He says first, that he would _lay for them stumbling blocks _He no doubt compares the judgments which were nigh to net...
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 THUS SAITH THE LORD,.... Because of their immorality and hypocrisy, their contempt of his word, and confidence in legal rites and ceremonies: BEHOLD, I WILL LAY STUMBLINGBLOCKS BEFORE THIS...
_Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish._ Ver. 21....
_Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people_ I will suffer such things to be laid in their way as shall be the occasion of their destruction. Or, I will bring calamities upon them, by whic...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people, the devices of the enemies which would bring about their ruin, AND THE FATHERS AND THE SONS TOGETHER, both being...
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...
I WILL LAY STUMBLING-BLOCKS; God gives this name to all the occasions of the Jews ruin; he exposeth them, or suffereth such things to be laid in their way, as shall be the occasion of their destructio...
Jeremiah 6:21 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 lay H5414 (H8802) blocks H4383 people H5971 fathers H1 sons...
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...
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 Peter 2:8; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Ezekiel 3:20; Ezekiel 5:10; Ezekie