The fathers understood this to be the decree rejecting the Jews from being the Church....
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)...
Jeremiah 6:16. OBEDIENCE MORE THAN SACRIFICE. Yahweh vainly bade the people stand at the parting of the ways (Hebrew, by the ways), and seek the ancient road to prosperity, that they may find repose f...
EVIL. calamity. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ MY LAW. Reference to Pentateuch. Note that "words" and "law" are put alternatively....
The third division. See introd. note to the ch....
The conclusion of the threefold appeal. Thus God pledges Himself as it were in the sight of the whole world, that He will no longer forbear. _the fruit of their thoughts_ the results of their rebelli...
4. _Prescription for deliverance_ (Jeremiah 6:16-21) TRANSLATION (16) Thus said the LORD: Stand along side the ways and observe. Ask for the old ways where the good way is and walk in it and you will...
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it. THE FRUIT OF THEIR THOUGH...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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,...
In what strong terms doth the Lord set forth the folly of outward things, as the incense and the cane, when there was no inward offering of the heart. What are all acts of religion, when there is no r...
He then adds, _Hear, thou earth _This is general, as though he said, “Hear ye, all the inhabitants of the earth: “_Behold, I am bringing an evil on this people _He would have directly addressed the Je...
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...
HEAR, O EARTH: BEHOLD, I WILL BRING EVIL UPON THIS PEOPLE,.... The people of the Jews; the evil of punishment, for the evil of sin committed by them; wherefore the earth, and the inhabitants of it, ar...
_Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, [even] the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it._ Ver. 19. _Hear, O earth...
_Therefore hear, ye nations_ The very heathen are called upon to take notice of these threatenings and denunciations of God's wrath against the Jews, lest they should think that the calamities which w...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
Hear, O EARTH! BEHOLD, I, Jehovah Himself, as He brings out with emphasis, WILL BRING EVIL UPON THIS PEOPLE, EVEN THE FRUIT OF THEIR THOUGHTS, the result of their counsels, the consequence of their ev...
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...
HEAR, O EARTH; the inhabitants of the earth; or else God having spoken to the rational, he now speaks to the very senseless creatures to observe his proceedings, EZEKIEL 36:4. I WILL BRING EVIL; the C...
Jeremiah 6:19 Hear H8085 (H8798) earth H776 bring H935 (H8688) calamity H7451 fruit H6529 thoughts H4284 heeded...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:18 The NATIONS, CONGREGATION, and EARTH are all called to HEAR God’s testimony against th
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...
1 Samuel 15:23; 1 Samuel 15:26; Acts 8:22; Deuteronomy 30:19;...