Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 16:13
And there shall ye ... - Ironical, and “there ye may serve other gods day and night, since I will shew you no favor.”
And there shall ye ... - Ironical, and “there ye may serve other gods day and night, since I will shew you no favor.”
Verse Jeremiah 16:13. _WILL I CAST YOU OUT OF THIS LAND_] See Jeremiah 7:15; Jeremiah 9:15....
THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
SERVE OTHER GODS. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 28:36). App-92....
Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
See introd. summary to section....
_there shall ye serve other gods_ The original thought of Jehovah as a national Deity led to the feeling that change of country involved a loss of His protection. Cp. Judges 11:24; 1 Samuel 26:19. "La...
WHERE I WILL NOT SHEW YOU FAVOUR— _Neither will I give you any favour with them there._ Houbigant....
B. Instructions for the Prophet Jeremiah 16:10-13 TRANSLATION (10) And it shall come to pass when you declare to this people all these things that they will say unto you: For what reason does the LOR...
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. SERVE OTHE...
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
THERE SHALL YE SERVE OTHER GODS] if you please. Spoken ironically. 14-21. The deliverance will be in proportion to the severity of the punishment....
THERE SHALL YE SERVE OTHER GODS DAY AND NIGHT. — The words are spoken in the bitterness of irony: “You have chosen to serve the gods of other nations here in your own land; therefore, by a righteous r...
וְ הֵטַלְתִּ֣י אֶתְכֶ֗ם מֵ עַל֙ הָ אָ֣רֶץ
The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...
_Gods. Elohim, "masters," &c., chap. xvii. 4. Chaldean, "idolatrous nations."_...
There is a wonderful degree of condescension, implied on the part of God in what is here said. Where there is an enquiry seriously set up in the soul, concerning the ways and works of God, in his visi...
Then follows a commination, _I will eject you, _he says, or remove you, _from this land to a land which ye know not, nor your fathers, _for they had followed unknown gods, and went after inventions of...
In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...
THEREFORE WILL I CALL YOU OUT OF THIS LAND,.... By force, and against their wills, whether they would or not, and with abhorrence and contempt: it is to be understood of their captivity, which was but...
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, [neither] ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour. Ver. 13. _...
_There shall ye serve other gods day and night_ The opportunities of frequenting the public worship of the true God shall be taken from you, as a just judgment upon you for your neglect of his service...
REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers, a country altogether strange to them, AND THERE SHALL YE SERVE OTHER GODS DAY AND NIGHT, without i...
10-13 Here seems to be the language of those who quarrel at the word of God, and instead of humbling and condemning themselves, justify themselves, as though God did them wrong. A plain and full answ...
You would not hearken to me to obey my voice in that good land which I gave you, and which you have known and inherited now many years; therefore I will throw you out into a land which you know not, a...
Jeremiah 16:13 cast H2904 (H8689) land H776 land H776 know H3045 (H8804) fathers H1 serve H5647 ...
JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS IN...
WHAT JEREMIAH IS TO ANSWER ONCE HE HAS GIVEN HIS EXPLANATION AS TO WHY HE IS ABSTAINING FROM MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, FROM ALL FORMS OF MOURNING, AND FROM ALL CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:10). Wit...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...
Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 16:13 A LAND. A place of exile (Jeremiah 15:14). SERVE OTHER GODS. The ultimate punishment ...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...
2 Chronicles 7:20; Deuteronomy 28:36; Deuteronomy 28:63; Deuteronomy 29:28;...
Ye shall serve — What is now matter of choice to you, shall then be forced upon you....