Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 13:13
The kings ... - i. e., his successors in general. In the fall of Jerusalem four kings in succession were crushed.
The kings ... - i. e., his successors in general. In the fall of Jerusalem four kings in succession were crushed.
Verse Jeremiah 13:13. _BEHOLD, I WILL FILL ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THIS_ _LAND - WITH DRUNKENNESS._] You pretend to take this _literally_, but it is a _symbol_. _You_, and your _kings_, and _priests_,...
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 FIGURE OF THE WINE-JARS. The fate of the men of Judah is that they shall be filled like jars with the wine of drunkenness (_cf._ Jeremiah 25:15 ff., Psalms 60:3), and then shall be dashed to destr...
The spoken symbol of the bottles A parable to indicate approaching overthrow. For intoxication as expressive of bewildered confusion and helplessness in the presence of calamity, cp. Jeremiah 25:15 f....
B. WARNING: Pride Causes Drunkenness Jeremiah 13:12-14 TRANSLATION (12) And you shall say unto them this word: Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine. Then they shal...
Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the i...
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,...
THE KINGS THAT SIT UPON DAVID’S THRONE. — Literally, _that sit for David_ (_i.e.,_ as his successors and representatives) _on his throne._ The plural is probably used in pointing to the four — Jehoaha...
וְ אָמַרְתָּ֙ אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה...
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...
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...
Here we have another similitude, and it should seem, it was highly suited to the people, to whom the Prophet delivered it. In wine countries, such as Judea, all orders of the people knew the use of it...
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...
THEN SHALL THOU SAY UNTO THEM,.... Explaining the above words: THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL FILL ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND; this is the application of the parable, and shows that by eve...
Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the in...
_Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants with drunkenness_ There is a wine of astonishment and confusion, Psalms 60:3. With that wine, saith God, I will fill all orders of persons, _kings, priests, pr...
AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...
Then shalt thou say unto them, in explaining to them what seemed so absolutely self-evident, THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, I WILL FILL ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND, who in this case are regarded as...
12-17 As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the sins of the people made them vessels of wrath, fitted for the judgments of God; with which they should be filled till they caused each other's...
There is a _wine of astonishment and confusion_, PSALMS 60:3, a wine that intoxicateth, and inflameth, and stupifieth, as well as a wine that refresheth; saith God, With that wine I will fill all orde...
Jeremiah 13:13 say H559 (H8804) says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 fill H4390 (H8764) inhabitants H3427 ...
JUDAH ARE LIKENED TO A NATION OF PROSPECTIVE INEBRIATES AS THEY LIVE LIFE TO EXCESS AND ARE WARNED OF WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH LIVING WILL BE (JEREMIAH 13:12). In a vivid metaphor YHWH now likens...
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...
_Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?_ DRUNK WITH EVIL They are supposed to think that the prophet is merely stating what was the plain meaning of the words, and, und...
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...
Habakkuk 2:16; Isaiah 29:9; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:21;
Behold — There is a wine of astonishment and confusion, Psalms 60:3. With that wine, saith God, I will fill all orders of persons, kings, priests, prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem....