Verse Jeremiah 11:16. _THE LORD CALLED THY NAME, A GREEN OLIVE TREE_] That is, he made thee like a green olive-fair, flourishing, and fruitful; but thou art degenerated, and God hath given the Chaldea...
A parenthesis. As in Jeremiah 7:16, all intercession is forbidden, and for this reason. Prayer for others for the forgiveness of their sins avails only when they also pray. The cry of the people now w...
CHAPTER 11 The Broken Covenant and the Plot Against Jeremiah _ 1. The broken covenant (Jeremiah 11:1) _ 2. The plot revealed and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 11:18) Jeremiah 11:1. Jehovah
OLIVE TREE. The symbol of Israel's religious privileges. See note on Judges 9:8....
Judah has fallen back into apostasy. It is now clear that Josiah's reforms have had no lasting results. The passage may therefore be placed in Jehoiakim's reign....
See summary at commencement of section....
Here also there are probably corruptions in MT., but R.V. gives the general sense. _called thy name_ acknowledged thee to be worthy of comparison with. _green_ SPREADING, LUXURIANT. The Hebrew word...
THE LORD CALLED THY NAME, A GREEN OLIVE-TREE— The Jewish nation is sometimes compared to an _olive-tree,_ as well as to a _vine._ See Psalms 52:8. Instead of, _With the noise of a great tumult,_ some...
B. Exposure of the Conspiracy Jeremiah 11:9-17 TRANSLATION (9) And the LORD said unto me: Conspiracy is found among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (10) They have returned to the i...
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. CALLED THY NAME - made th...
1-14. Punishment must follow faithlessness....
The fair promise and the punishment which apostasy brought about....
A GREEN OLIVE TREE. — The parable is essentially the same, though a different symbol is chosen, as that of the vine of Isaiah 5:1; Jeremiah 2:21, or the fig-tree of Luke 13:6. The olive also was natur...
זַ֤יִת רַֽעֲנָן֙ יְפֵ֣ה פְרִי ־תֹ֔אַר קָרָ֥א...
CHAPTER VII THE BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet's car...
THE PENALTY OF A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1-20 This and the following two Chapter s belong to the earlier ministry of Jeremiah, when he still dwelt in his native home of Anathoth. The prophet refe...
He then proceeded to deal with the broken Covenant. There came to him from the Lord a special word commissioning him to pronounce a curse on "the man that heareth not the words of this covenant." To t...
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the (m) noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. (m) Of the Babylonians...
_Burnt, by lightning. The olive was a most useful and beautiful tree._...
Amidst all these solemn things, and amidst all the judgments coming upon the people; let not the Reader overlook how the Lord graciously adverts to former times, and still calls his Church beloved. I...
The Prophet says first that the Jews had indeed been for a time like a fruitful and a fair olive; then he adds, that this beauty would not prevent God from breaking its branches and entirely eradicati...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Chapter 11 suggests some observations. God addresses Himself again to Israel on the ground of their responsibility, reminding them of the call to o...
THE LORD CALLED THY NAME A GREEN OLIVE TREE,.... That is, compared the Jewish church and people to one, and made them as one, very prosperous and flourishing in the enjoyment of privileges, civil and...
The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, [and] of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken. Ver. 16. _The Lord called...
_The Lord hath called thy name, A green olive-tree_ Perhaps Jeremiah here alludes to Hosea 11:7, where Israel is compared to an olive-tree. The Jewish nation, which, in its flourishing state, is often...
Israel's Conspiracy Against the Lord and its Punishment...
The Lord called thy name "A green olive-tree," fair and of goodly fruit, thus He had regarded Israel in the days when He chose it for His own; WITH THE NOISE OF A GREAT TUMULT, amid the rattling of th...
11-17 Evil pursues sinners, and entangles them in snares, out of which they cannot free themselves. Now, in their distress, their many gods and many altars stand them in no stead. And those whose own...
That is, the Lord fixed thee when he brought thee first into Canaan, in a beautiful flourishing state and condition, so as thou wert in a capacity both to have done thyself much good, and to have brou...
Jeremiah 11:16 LORD H3068 called H7121 (H8804) name H8034 Green H7488 Tree H2132 Lovely H3303 Good H8389 Fruit
JEREMIAH PROPHESIES AGAINST THE PEOPLE (JEREMIAH 11:16). Israel had been officially named by YHWH as Zayith-ra‘anan-yephe-peri-to'ar (an olive tree green, beautiful and with luscious fruit) when He ha...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message on the broken covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who enter into solemn covenant with God must expect on their part to fulfill the conditions, else He...
Jeremiah 11:14. _Pray not thou for this people._ The Chaldaic and the LXX, Deprecate not the scourge of war coming upon them. We find the same sentiments more fully expressed in Ezekiel 14., confirmin...
AN OLIVE TREE A green olive tree, fair with goodly fruit. Jeremiah 11:16. You have all seen a part or parts of today's text, but I doubt if any of you have seen the whole of it. You won't find it in...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The “covenant” summarised in Jeremiah 11:2 refers to the nation’s renewal of vows with Jehovah upon the Book of the Law being discovered du...
EXPOSITION The superscription in Jeremiah 11:1 evidently belongs to the three chapters 11-13, though Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 are more closely connected with each other than with...
Shall we turn to Jeremiah the eleventh chapter as we continue our study through the book of Jeremiah. Chapter 11 begins a new section of the book, not a whole new division, but it's a new message, and...
Ezekiel 15:4; Ezekiel 20:47; Ezekiel 20:48; Isaiah 1:30; Isaiah 1:31
Fair — The Lord fixed thee when he brought thee first into Canaan, in a flourishing condition, like a fair olive — tree, fit to bear goodly fruit. Broken — But thou hast so behaved thyself, that he wh...