Verse Jeremiah 46:22. _THE VOICE - SHALL GO LIKE A SERPENT_] See Isaiah 29:4, and the note there....
THE VOICE THEREOF - Her voice, i. e., the voice of Egypt. The word here probably means the busy sound of life and activity in the towns of Egypt, the tramping of her hosts, and the turmoil of camp and...
IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS CHAPTER 46 Concerning Egypt _ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13) 3. A messa...
JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...
Oracles against foreign nations Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's _Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that the whole or a considerable part of the...
See introd. note to the ch. and summary. Gi. rejects as later all that follows Jeremiah 46:12 as involving repetitions, looseness of structure, and vagueness in style, criticisms which (see note on Je...
_The sound thereof shall go like the serpent_ better, as mg. _Her sound is like that of the serpent as it goeth_. The voice of Egypt in her feebleness as she flees away from the enemy shall be like th...
THE VOICE THEREOF SHALL GO LIKE A SERPENT— _Her voice hisses like a serpent;_ alluding to a wounded serpent, whence the similitude is taken. The LXX make use of the word συριξοντος _sibilantis._ The C...
II. THE SECOND ORACLE CONCERNING EGYPT Jeremiah 46:13-26 The second poem concerning Egypt points to an invasion of that land by Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 46:13). It is impossible to ascertain the date...
B. The Consequences of Invasion Jeremiah 46:20-26 TRANSLATION (20) A very beautiful heifer is Egypt. A gadfly from the north has come against her. (21) Also her hirelings in the midst of her are like...
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. THE VOICE THEREOF SHALL GO LIKE A SERPENT - the cry of Egypt, when...
LIKE A SERPENT] rustling as it escapes through the thick underwood. Such shall be the sound of Egypt as it flees away....
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
THE VOICE THEREOF SHALL GO LIKE A SERPENT. — Better, _her voice_ — _i.e.,_ the voice of Egypt. In early prophecies Egypt had been compared to a “dragon” or “serpent” (Isaiah 27:1; Isaiah 51:9; Psalms...
CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....
The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...
Its voice shall go like a (s) serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against (t) her with axes, as hewers of wood. (s) They will be scarcely able to speak for fear of the Chaldeans. (t...
_Brass. Septuagint, "hissing serpent;" lamenting in secret, Isaias xxix. 4. --- Wood. Battle-axes were then used. Great cities and monarchs shall fall, Zacharias xi. 2., and Ezechiel xxxi. 3. (Calmet)...
If the Reader will compare scripture with scripture, which is always the most profitable way of reading the word of God; he will find, that what Jeremiah is here engaged in, Isaiah had been before him...
To study elegance was not so much the object of the Prophet, as to confirm what he had taught. The figures, then, which he now uses, were not intended as ornaments of speech, but rather for the purpos...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
THE VOICE THEREOF SHALL GO LIKE A SERPENT,.... That is, the voice of Egypt, before compared to a heifer, when in its glory; but now it shall not bellow like a heifer in fat pasture, bat hiss like a se...
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. Ver. 22. The voice thereof (of Egypt) shall go like a serpent.] _a_ _S...
_The voice thereof shall go like a serpent_ “That is, her (Egypt's) voice shall be low and inarticulate through fear. This passage seems to be an imitation of Isaiah 29:4, where we find the same threa...
The voice thereof, of the daughter of Egypt, SHALL GO LIKE A SERPENT, hissing from her thicket as she hears some one approaching; FOR THEY SHALL MARCH WITH AN ARMY AND COME AGAINST HER WITH AXES, AS H...
THE SECOND PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
13-28 Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the...
Egypt is now like a heifer that makes a great bellowing, but the time shall come when she shall make a lesser noise, like the hissing of a serpent when it seeth itself set upon. For the Chaldeans shal...
Jeremiah 46:22 noise H6963 go H3212 (H8799) serpent H5175 march H3212 (H8799) army H2428 come H935 ...
B). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S LATER PENETRATION INTO EGYPT WHICH WILL NOT HOWEVER BE TERMINAL (JEREMIAH 46:13). This prophecy here has in mind a much later excursion of Nebuchadrezzar against...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...
Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jeremiah 4...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations. Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations (Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of Charchemish. This se...
EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28. Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of miscellaneous prophec...
Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 10:33; Isaiah 10:34; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 29:4;...