Jeremiah 33:1-26. Renewed promise of return and of honour among the nations For the late character of Jeremiah 33:14 of this ch. see introd. note there. Jeremiah 33:1 are also rejected by Schmidt, Co. and Du., while Gi. admits that they include a certain amount of interpolation, e.g. Jeremiah 33:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
_in the court of the guard_ See on ch. Jeremiah 32:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
_the Lord is his name_ He is God and not man, and so is unchangeable and omnipotent. A similar expression is frequent in Isaiah (Isaiah 47:4; Isaiah 48:2, etc.). Cp. Jeremiah 10:16, in connexion, as here, with Jehovah as Creator ("former") of all things.... [ Continue Reading ]
These _vv_. bear a close affinity to several passages in 2 Isaiah (e.g. Isaiah 45:18; Isaiah 48:6), and are probably an insertion by a later hand. For the indefinite "that doeth it," etc., which in the Hebrew still more than the English resembles Isaiah 22:11 (cp. Jeremiah 33:4 f. here with Isaiah 2... [ Continue Reading ]
_great things, and difficult_ mg. Heb. _fenced in_. The word means lit. _cut off_, inaccessible. But certain MSS. of MT., not apparently supported, however, by LXX, read probably rightly (differing only by one letter, _nĕtsûroth_for _bĕtsûroth) hidden_, as in Isaiah 48:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
_mounts_ See on Jeremiah 6:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
These _vv_., as they stand, are evidently corrupt; for "they" (seeing that the word cannot, as strict grammar demands, mean "the houses"), as applied to the defenders of the city, would require the verb _go out_instead of "come." There is something like an agreement among commentators that "the Chal... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. summary to section.... [ Continue Reading ]
_have hid my face_ in displeasure. Cp. Deuteronomy 31:17 and elsewhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
_health_ mg. _healing_; lit. _fresh flesh_; See on Jeremiah 8:22. _abundance_ The word in MT. occurs here only, the meaning that the corresponding root bears in Ezekiel 35:13; Proverbs 27:6, being taken to justify the sense assigned here. But the text is probably corrupt. A word almost identical in... [ Continue Reading ]
_as at the first_ as in former times (those of the undivided kingdom).... [ Continue Reading ]
_And I will cleanse them_ This feature of the new covenant has been brought out strongly in Jeremiah 31:34. We have it again, Jeremiah 50:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
_shall fear and tremble_ inferring that He who so honours those who seek Him will punish with equal emphasis those who disregard Him.... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. summary to the section. The genuineness of these _vv_. may be regarded as questionable; although the fact that the overthrow of Jerusalem is a thing of the past and the land is waste does not prove it to be non-Jeremianic, as the prophet survived the final disaster. The form of the doxol... [ Continue Reading ]
_Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his mercy_endureth _for ever_ liturgical forms used in the Temple services. See 1Ch 16:34; 2 Chronicles 5:13; 2 Chronicles 7:3; 2 Chronicles 7:6; Ezra 3:11; Psalms 106:1. sacrifices of _thanksgiving_ See on Jeremiah 17:26. _I will cause t... [ Continue Reading ]
_him that telleth_ For "tell" in the sense (now archaic) of _count_cp. Genesis 15:5; Psalms 22:17; Psalms 48:12. "While one with moderate haste might _tell_a hundred." _Hamlet_, Jeremiah 1:2. The cognate substantive is preserved to us in the title of the "tellers" who report the result of a divis... [ Continue Reading ]
The Kingly and Priestly Offices shall be re-established.... [ Continue Reading ]
See introd. summary to the section. This portion of the ch. is clearly later than Jeremiah's time. The expression "Levitical priests" (see on Jeremiah 33:18) is not one which he uses elsewhere. Moreover, there is a considerable amount of repetition in the passage (cp. Jeremiah 33:14 with Jeremiah 29... [ Continue Reading ]
See notes on Jeremiah 23:5 f. For the name applied (Jeremiah 33:6) not to the king but to the city cp. Ezekiel 48:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
_David … man_ lit. as mg. _There shall not be cut off from David_.... [ Continue Reading ]
The making of the Levites co-extensive with the priests, while in consonance with the Deuteronomic legislation (e.g. Deuteronomy 17:9; Deuteronomy 17:18), was no longer recognised in Nehemiah's day. Probably this passage was written after the change had in effect taken place, while yet the earlier p... [ Continue Reading ]
God's Covenant is as certain in its working as the ordinances of nature. Cp. Psalms 89:34 ff.... [ Continue Reading ]
See 2 Samuel 7:12-16.... [ Continue Reading ]
Renewal of the assurance to the people as a whole, with the same illustration.... [ Continue Reading ]
_this people_ If the words be right, they must indicate the sceptical part of the nation. But the subsequent context, as it stands, rather requires the meaning to be hostile nations. The emendation which makes the best sense is that of Du. and Co.: "He hath cast them off and rejected His people, tha... [ Continue Reading ]
stand] The absence of a verb in this clause to balance "have … appointed" in the next has led to Du."s emendation, adopted also by Co., to read by a very slight change in the Hebrew for "If my covenant," _If I have not created_. The alteration to the present text might have easily been made by a scr... [ Continue Reading ]