Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 13:1
A linen girdle - The appointed dress of the priestly order (Leviticus 16:4, ...).
Put it not in water - i. e., do not wash it, and so let it represent the deep-grained pollution of the people.
A linen girdle - The appointed dress of the priestly order (Leviticus 16:4, ...).
Put it not in water - i. e., do not wash it, and so let it represent the deep-grained pollution of the people.
CHAPTER XIII _This chapter contains an entire prophecy. The symbol of the_ _linen girdle, left to rot for a considerable time, was a type_ _of the manner in which the glory of the Jews should be ma...
CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
THE SYMBOL OF THE WAIST-CLOTH, its removal signifying the rejection and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as a...
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-14 a linen girdle. Soft girdles, made of silk or linen, still worn by upper classes. Compare Ezekiel 16:10. Some embroidered (Daniel 10:5.Revelation 1:13;...
_a linen girdle_ Linen, not woollen, garments were appointed for priestly wear. See e.g. Exodus 28:42. It was thus the fittest material for that which should symbolize the people of God. _put it not i...
Jeremiah 13:1-11. The acted symbol of the linen girdle This ch. consists of five sections, quite independent of one another. The first two are in poetic prose, and the remaining in Ḳinah metre. Three...
GO, AND GET THEE A LINEN GIRDLE— The prophet here begins a new discourse. He himself gives us an explanation of the meaning of the symbolical action here related. See the note on ch. Jeremiah 1:11. He...
VI. THE PRIDE OF THE NATION Jeremiah 13:1-27 Arrogant, willful, stubborn pride was at the root of all Judah's sins. In chapter thirteen Jeremiah issues five stern warnings concerning pride and its con...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. Many of these figurative acts being either not possible or not probable or decorous...
JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta,...
GO, etc.] It is doubtful whether this and the subsequent acts of the prophet were real or done only in symbol. As, however, Jeremiah appears to have been absent from Jerusalem during the most of the l...
A LINEN GIRDLE. — The point of comparison is given in Jeremiah 13:11. Of all garments worn by man the girdle was that most identified with the man’s activity, nearest to his person. The “linen girdle”...
כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֵלַ֗י הָלֹ֞וךְ וְ קָנִ
CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto me," witho...
20-25, THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE Jeremiah 13:1-11 This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some such striking symbol before them the attention _of the people_ must have been pow...
The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
_Girdle, usually worn by women. (St. Jerome) (Exodus xxviii. 42.) --- It denoted the Jews, who became more corrupt during the captivity; (ver. 7, 11.) so that God delivered them out of his pure mercy....
Jeremiah spared no pains, and thought nothing of his trouble to follow up the Lord's commissions. Euphrates was no small distance from Jerusalem: but yet we find thither the Prophet went both to carry...
CONTENTS The Prophet in this Chapter is teaching by signs, as he had before been instructing by plain discourse. Under the similitude of a girdle made rotten, and of bottles perishing with wine; the...
I have said that there is here a new prophecy; for the Prophet is said to buy for himself a girdle or a belt, or, according to some, a truss or breeches; and as mention is made of linen, this opinion...
Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart, announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
THUS SAITH THE LORD UNTO ME,.... In a vision, and by the spirit of prophecy: when this was said is not certain, very likely in the reign of Jehoiakim; the prophet gives an account of what had been don...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. Ver. 1. _Go, get thee a linen girdle._] Or, Belt, or swath. _ And put it not in water....
_Thus saith the Lord unto me_ The prophet here begins a new discourse. _Go and get thee a girdle_, &c. “God explains, at Jeremiah 13:11, what was meant by the symbol of the girdle, or sash, worn about...
Thus saith the Lord unto me, in bidding the prophet perform an act of symbolic significance, GO AND GET THEE A LINEN GIRDLE, a very important article of apparel in those days, since it held the garmen...
THE SYMBOL OF THE GIRDLE...
1-11 It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs. And we have the explanation, ver. Jeremiah 13:9. The people of Israel had been to God as this girdle. He caused them to cleave to him by the law...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 13 In the type of a linen girdle God prefigureth their destruction, JEREMIAH 13:1. Under the parable of bottles filled with wine, is foretold their drunkenness with misery, JEREMIAH 1...
Jeremiah 13:1 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8804) Go H1980 (H8800) get H7069 (H8804) linen H6593 sash...
THE ACTED OUT PROPHECY OF THE LINEN GIRDLE (JEREMIAH 13:1). YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is initially to...
CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with wine. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make themselves vessels of wrath fi...
Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
_Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing._ THE CAST-OFF GIRDLE In many instances...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:1 This is the first of several symbolic acts Jeremiah performs to reveal God’s will. ⇐ ⇔
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, Hend.,...
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
Ezekiel 4:1; Hebrews 1:1; Jeremiah 13:11; Jeremiah 19:1; Jeremiah 27:2