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Jeremiah 16:7

breakbread for them The same verb as in Isaiah 58:7 ("deal"). There the word for bread (leḥem) stands in MT., and a very slight change here would convert "for them" (Heb. lahem) into the same word. If on the other hand we keep lahem, leḥemmust have dropped out after it. The reference is to the custom for mourners to fast (cp. 2 Samuel 3:35), whereupon their sympathetic friends brought them bread and wine to console them.

the cup of consolation on the principle stated Proverbs 31:6.

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See also Jeremiah 16:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TEAR THEMSELVES - Better as in the margin; “break broad for them.” It was customary upon the death of a relative to fast, and for the friends and neighbors after a decent delay to come and comfort the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MEN TEAR THEMSELVES. break [bread]. Hebrew. _paras,_ to break, used of breaking bread, as in Isaiah 58:7; Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4, and Revised Version. The _Ellipsis_, is wrongly supplied in Authoriz...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NEITHER SHALL MEN TEAR THEMSELVES FOR THEM, &C.— _Neither shall men break bread in mourning to comfort them,_ &c. Houbigant, &c. See John 11:19. Proverbs 31:6. Tobit orders his son to give bread on th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. PROPHETIC CONDUCT Jeremiah 16:1-21 Jeremiah came through his personal crisis. He repented and God took him back. Now that the rebellious prophet was humble and contrite, God gives him further ins...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. NEITHER SHALL...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TEAR _themselves_ FOR THEM] RV 'break bread for them.' The reference here and in the rest of the v. is to the custom that the friends should urge the mourners to eat and drink: cp. 2 Samuel 3:35; 2 Sa...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    NEITHER SHALL MEN TEAR THEMSELVES. — The marginal reading, “Neither shall men _break bread for them,_” as in Isaiah 58:7; Lamentations 4:4, gives the true meaning. We are entering upon another region...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לֹֽא ־יִפְרְס֥וּ לָהֶ֛ם עַל ־אֵ֖בֶל לְ

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the (d) cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. (d) F...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Cup. Most exquisite things were sent on such occasions. (Buxtorf, Syn. xxxv.) (Proverbs xxxi. 6., Tobias iv. 18., and John xi. 19.)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I venture to read this precept given to Jeremiah concerning marriage while in Babylon, both with a national and spiritual view. No alliances were to be made by the people of God, with their idolatrous...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    With regard to the seventh verse, (161) we may learn from it what I have already referred to, — that the Jews made funeral feasts, that children and widows might receive some relief to their sorrow; f...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NEITHER SHALL MEN TEAR THEMSELVES,.... Either their flesh, or their clothes: or, "stretch out" y; that is, their hands, and clap them together, and wring them, as persons in great distress do: or "div...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. Ver. 7. _...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Neither shall men tear themselves for them_ According to this translation the phrase alludes to another expression of immoderate grief, which consisted in tearing their flesh with their nails. But ac...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, literally, "break bread for them," to comfort them for the dead; NEITHER SHALL MEN GIVE THEM THE CUP OF CONSOLATION TO DRINK FOR THEIR FATHER OR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TEAR THEMSELVES FOR THEM: Or, break bread for them, as Ezekiel 24:17...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his country ruined very shortly. In the prospect of sad times, he is to abstain from marriage, mourning for the dead, and pleasure. Tho...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBHeb; NEITHER SHALL MEN TEAR THEMSELVES FOR THEM IN MOURNING TO COMFORT THEM FOR THE DEAD: if we allow our translation here of the word odp with the word supplied, _themselves_, it will be hard to g...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 16:7 break H6536 (H8799) mourning H60 comfort H5162 (H8763) dead H4191 (H8801) cup H3563 consolation...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND SIGN: ABSTENTION FROM MOURNING (JEREMIAH 16:5). The second sign was to be seen as the abstention from mourning and from attendance at funerals. Proper mourning for the dead was again seen a...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS IN...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 26:14; Ezekiel 24:17; Hosea 9:4; Job 42:11; Proverbs 31:6

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Deal bread — It was a custom among them, when they had any friend, that had lost his relations, to send them some meat (for among the Hebrews all things they ate were called bread) and then to go and...

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