In these vv. the Lord reassures Jeremiah of his divine commission, and he appears under the figure of one testing metal. The result of the testing process is that no precious metal is found. All is dross.
Verse Jeremiah 6:27. _I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER AND A FORTRESS_] Dr. _Blayney_ translates, _I have appointed thee to make an assay among_ _my people_. The words refer to the _office of an assayer o...
Render it: I have set thee among My people as a prover of ore, And thou shalt know and try their way. They are all of them rebels of rebels (i. e., utter rebels): Slander-walkers, were copper and...
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)...
THE PROPHET'S TASK. The record of earlier prophecies (Jeremiah 6:1) fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the trier (_mg._) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy mixed w...
I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER, &C.— The prophet in these verses evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such trial, m...
6. _The hopeless task of the Prophet_ (Jeremiah 6:27-30) TRANSLATION (27) A tower have I made you among My people, a fortified city that you may know, then test their way. (28) They are all rebelliou...
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER AND A FORTRESS AMONG MY PEOPLE - (Jeremiah 1:18); rather, an assayer...
6:27 assayer, (h-10) Or 'for a watch-tower.'...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
A TOWER] RM 'trier,' or tester. A FORTRESS] He shall have God's protection in his task....
I HAVE SET THEE... — The verse is difficult, as containing words in the Hebrew which are not found elsewhere, and have therefore to be guessed at. The following rendering is given on the authority of...
בָּחֹ֛ון נְתַתִּ֥יךָ בְ עַמִּ֖י מִבְצָ֑ר וְ ת
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,...
I have set (u) thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. (u) Meaning, Jeremiah, whom God had appointed to try out the godly from the wicked, as a f...
_Trier of my people, as of gold in the furnace, Job xxii. 25._...
The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
The Prophet says, that he was _set _by God as a _watchtower_, which was also fortified, that he might observe the wickedness of the people. In order to gain more authority for his prophecy, he introdu...
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...
I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER,.... Or "in" one d; in a watch tower, to look about and observe the actions of the people, their sins and transgressions, and reprove them for them; as well as to descry th...
I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. Ver. 27. _I have set thee for a tower and a fortress._] Or, A fortified watch tower have I mad...
_I have set thee for a tower_, &c. According to this reading, God speaks here by way of encouragement to the prophet, and tells him he had made him a fortified tower, that he might be safe, notwithsta...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among My people, literally, "as a prover," or explorer, and an assayer, one who separates the metal from the dross, THAT THOU MAYEST KNOW AND TRY THEIR WAY,...
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...
Here God speaks by way of encouragement to the prophet, and tells him he had made him a fortified tower, that he might both discover the carriages of his people, which is one use of a high tower, ISAI...
Jeremiah 6:27 set H5414 (H8804) assayer H969 fortress H4013 people H5971 know H3045 (H8799) test H974 ...
JEREMIAH LEARNS THAT YHWH HAS ESTABLISHED HIM AS AN ASSAYER OF HIS PEOPLE, AS WELL AS THEIR FORTRESS, ALTHOUGH ALL THAT HE WILL DISCOVER WILL BE THAT THEY ARE A MIXTURE OF BASE METAL AND DROSS (JEREMI...
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 6:27 TESTER OF METALS. Jeremiah’s task is to assess how much impurity remains in a people called to be pure. The ancient refining process used heated lead to draw out ore fro...
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...
Ezekiel 20:4; Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 3:8; Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 15:2
I have set thee — Here God speaks by way of encouragement to the prophet, and tells him, he had made him a fortified tower, that he might be safe, notwithstanding all the attempts against him. And try...