Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 6:12
Turned - Violently transferred. Houses, fields, wives, all they most valued, and most jealously kept to themselves - are gone.
Turned - Violently transferred. Houses, fields, wives, all they most valued, and most jealously kept to themselves - are gone.
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)...
THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his wo...
TURNED UNTO OTHERS. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:30). SAITH THE LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle....
_I will stretch out my hand_ Cp. for this phrase Isaiah 5:25....
These verses are almost identical with ch. Jeremiah 8:10-12, where they are probably a later insertion....
See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again. Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited the Northern tribes, but many times....
3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15) TRANSLATION (9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE TURNED UN...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
וְ נָסַ֤בּוּ בָֽתֵּיהֶם֙ לַ אֲחֵרִ֔ים שָׂדֹ֥ות...
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,...
All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...
One kind of vengeance only he mentions, — that the Jews would be deprived of their land, which they thought would ever remain in peace to them. Inasmuch as it had been said, “This is my rest for ever...
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...
AND THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE TURNED UNTO OTHERS,.... To strangers, to the Chaldeans; they shall be transferred unto them, come into their hands, and become their property: WITH THEIR FIELDS AND WIVES TO...
And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. Ver. 12. _With their fields and...
_Therefore I am full of the fury_ את חמת, _the anger_, or _wrath_, as it should rather have been rendered; _of the Lord_ An expression which is to be understood of that divine justice which is worthy...
And their houses shall be turned unto others, transferred to them as the spoils of war, WITH THEIR FIELDS AND WIVES TOGETHER. Cf Deuteronomy 28:30; FOR I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND UPON THE INHABITANTS...
THE PROPHET VOICES THE FURY OF THE LORD...
9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin b...
THEIR HOUSES SHALL BE TURNED UNTO OTHERS, i.e. their houses and their lands shall be devolved or turned over to strangers, JEREMIAH 8:10, even that land which they thought had been entailed upon them,...
Jeremiah 6:12 houses H1004 turned H5437 (H8738) others H312 Fields H7704 wives H802 together H3162 out H5186 ...
JEREMIAH IS CALLED ONCE MORE TO SIFT JERUSALEM FOR RIGHTEOUS MEN AND HIS RESPONSE DEMONSTRATES THAT HE IS DESPAIRING OF EVER FINDING ONE AS HE SUMS UP THEIR FALLEN STATE AND CALLS ON YHWH TO FULFIL HI...
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...
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...
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 Chronicles 21:16; Deuteronomy 28:30; Deuteronomy 28:39; Isaiah 10:4;...