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Jeremiah 13:11
The aptitude of the symbol is pointed out. Probably, according to an indication given by the Syr. Hex."s rendering, the words "the whole house of Israel and" are a gloss.
The aptitude of the symbol is pointed out. Probably, according to an indication given by the Syr. Hex."s rendering, the words "the whole house of Israel and" are a gloss.
The reason why the girdle was chosen as the symbol. Similarly, Israel was the people chosen and set apart that in and by them the Holy Spirit might work for the salvation of mankind....
CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
THE SYMBOL OF THE WAIST-CLOTH, its removal signifying the rejection and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as a...
HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 2:4. HOUSE OF JUDAH. See note on Jeremiah 3:18. SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle. THAT THEY MIGHT BE UNTO ME FOR. PEOPLE. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 1...
DISCOURSE: 1047 THE CONTEMPT WITH WHICH GOD’S RICHEST MERCIES ARE TREATED Jeremiah 13:11. _As the girdle cleareth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel a...
SO HAVE I CAUSED— _So had I caused._...
VI. THE PRIDE OF THE NATION Jeremiah 13:1-27 Arrogant, willful, stubborn pride was at the root of all Judah's sins. In chapter thirteen Jeremiah issues five stern warnings concerning pride and its con...
For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, a...
13:11 glory. (a-53) Or 'beauty,' 'adornment.' see Isaiah 28:1 , Isaiah 28:62 .3....
JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. — The acted parable takes in not only, as in Jeremiah 13:9, Judah, to whom the warning was specially addressed, but the other great division of the people. The sense of nati...
כִּ֡י כַּ אֲשֶׁר֩ יִדְבַּ֨ק הָ אֵזֹ֜ור אֶל
CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto me," witho...
20-25, THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE Jeremiah 13:1-11 This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some such striking symbol before them the attention _of the people_ must have been pow...
The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
_Glory; that they might serve me for the edification of the world._...
The signs and types are doubly beautiful, and interesting, which God the Holy Ghost himself explains. And here we have the Lord's own illustration of it. Our whole nature was marred by sin; and when t...
_WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN!_ ‘That they might be … but they would not.’ Jeremiah 13:11 I. THIS PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE MAY REALLY HAVE BEEN TRANSACTED.—By some such striking symbol, enacted before the peo...
He confirms what we noticed yesterday, — that the Jews entertained a foolish confidence, and promised themselves perpetual happiness, because God had chosen them as his people. This indeed would have...
Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart, announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
FOR AS THE GIRDLE CLEAVETH TO THE LOINS OF A MAN,.... Being girt tight unto him: SO HAVE I CAUSED TO CLEAVE UNTO ME THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, AND THE WHOLE HOUSE OF JUDAH; whom he chose above all pe...
For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, an...
Jer. 13:11. "For as a girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah." As the body of a man is incomplete and defecti...
_For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man_ Here God shows the prophet why he commanded him to put the girdle about his loins. _So have I caused_ Rather, _had I caused; to cleave unto me the ho...
For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto Me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the Lord, in the wonderful fellowship wherewith Jehov...
THE SYMBOL OF THE GIRDLE...
1-11 It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs. And we have the explanation, ver. Jeremiah 13:9. The people of Israel had been to God as this girdle. He caused them to cleave to him by the law...
Here God openeth to the prophet why he commanded him to put the girdle about his loins, viz. to show that he of his singular favour had used the Jews as a man useth girdle, which he fasteneth about hi...
Jeremiah 13:11 sash H232 clings H1692 (H8799) waist H4975 man H376 house H1004 Israel H3478 house H1004 Judah...
THE ACTED OUT PROPHECY OF THE LINEN GIRDLE (JEREMIAH 13:1). YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is initially to...
CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with wine. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make themselves vessels of wrath fi...
Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
_Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing._ THE CAST-OFF GIRDLE In many instances...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:8 The Judeans’ prideful, idolatrous ways cling to them like an undergarment. Like Jeremiah’s garment, this PRIDE will be ruined....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, Hend.,...
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
1 Peter 2:9; Deuteronomy 26:18; Deuteronomy 32:10; Deuteronomy 4:7;...