FOR THE SWORD OF THE ENEMY - literally, “for to the enemy a sword; i. e., for the enemy is armed,” he has a commission from God to execute judgment. See Jeremiah 12:12; Isaiah 10:5, and Psalms 17:13 n...
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 FOE FROM THE NORTH is again described (_cf._ Jeremiah 5:15) in his advance against Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:22). Its inhabitants utter their dismay (wax feeble, Jeremiah 6:24; Heb. are slack). The pr...
FEAR IS ON EVERY SIDE. terror is round about. Compare Jeremiah 20:3; Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29;...
The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
and _terror on every side_ Omit "and." The remaining words are a characteristic expression of Jeremiah. Ch. Jeremiah 20:3 (where see note), 10, Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29;...
5. _Description of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:22-26) TRANSLATION (22) Thus said the LORD: Behold, a people is about to come from a north land, a great nation shall be aroused from the uttermost parts of th...
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. He addresses "the daughter of Zion" (Jeremiah 6:23); caution to the citizens of Jerusalem not...
6:25 side. (g-24) Heb. _ Magor-missabib_ . see ch. 20.3....
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
FEAR _is_ ON EVERY SIDE] a favourite expression with Jeremiah (20:3mg, 10; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29). 27-30. The nation incapable of reform. Jehovah reassures Jeremiah of his divine commission. T...
THE FIELD. — _i.e., the open country._ To pass beyond the walls of the beleaguered city would be full of danger. The warning has its parallel in Matthew 24:17. In the same chapter we find also an echo...
אַל־_תֵּֽצְאוּ֙_† הַ שָּׂדֶ֔ה וּ בַ †...
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,...
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...
He confirms the previous verse. For the Jews, as it has been said, regarded all threatenings as nothing: it was hence necessary that they should be taught, not by words only, but be constrained to fea...
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...
GO NOT FORTH INTO THE FIELD,.... Either for pleasure, or for business; to take a walk in it for the air, or to till it, plough, sow, or reap; but keep within the city and its walls, there being danger...
Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy [and] fear [is] on every side. Ver. 25. _Go not out into the field._] Since there is "no peace to him that goeth out, nor...
_Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people_ I will suffer such things to be laid in their way as shall be the occasion of their destruction. Or, I will bring calamities upon them, by whic...
Go not forth into the field, in venturing outside of the walls of Jerusalem, NOR WALK BY THE WAY, along the roads of Judah; FOR THE SWORD OF THE ENEMY AND FEAR IS ON EVERY SIDE. All these facts are se...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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...
GO NOT FORTH INTO THE FIELD, NOR WALK BY THE WAY; expressing the great danger that there would be every where, there would be no stirring out of their fenced cities or houses, JEREMIAH 8:14, but great...
Jeremiah 6:25 out H3318 (H8799) field H7704 walk H3212 (H8799) way H1870 sword H2719 enemy H341 ...
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...
YHWH NOW DESCRIBES THE TOTAL INTRANSIGENCE OF HIS PEOPLE AND DISMISSES THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PACIFY HIM BY RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND OFFERINGS, CONFIRMING TO THEM THE JUDGMENT THAT IS INEVITABLY COMING ON THEM...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 15:5; Isaiah 1:20; Jeremiah 14:18; Jeremiah 20:10;...
Go not forth — Expressing the great danger that there would be everywhere....