Hew ye down trees - Rather, her trees: for the simple purpose of clearing the approaches.
Cast a mount - literally, pour: the earth was emptied out of the baskets, in which it was carried to the required spot upon the backs of laborers.
Wholly - Or,
“She “is the city” that is visited:
“Wholly oppression” is “in the midst of her!”
She is visited, - i. e., punished; she is ripe for punishment.
Verse Jeremiah 6:6. _HEW YE DOWN TREES_] To form machines. _AND CAST A MOUNT_] That may overlook the city, on which to place our engines. _THIS_ IS _THE CITY TO BE VISITED_] We are sure of success,...
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 SIEGE OF THE SINFUL CITY. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth, his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now nea...
THE LORD OF HOSTS. Jehovah _Zebbaioth,_ the first of thirtynine occurrences of this title in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 6:6; Jeremiah 6:9; Jeremiah 8:3; Jeremiah
_Hew ye down trees_ See Deuteronomy 20:20. _trees_ mg. _her_(the city's) _trees_. _cast up a mount_ Earth was carried in baskets, and poured in a heap, until it was on a level with the walls. The ass...
The Scythians would not make their approaches to the city in this fashion, while the absence of metre makes us hesitate to take the passage as inserted by the prophet in Jehoiakim's time, when the Cha...
CAST A MOUNT— The margin of our Bibles reads, _Pour out the engine of shot._ The original word סללה _solelah,_ signifies a warlike engine used in sieges for casting stones or missile weapons. See Pilk...
_2. The siege of Jerusalem_ (Jeremiah 6:6-8) TRANSLATION (6) For thus says the LORD of hosts: Cut her trees and pour out against Jerusalem a mound! This is the city to be punished; everywhere there i...
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her. CAST - Hebrew, pour out; ref...
6:6 visited; (g-24) Or 'punished.'...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
HEW YE DOWN TREES] to clear the approaches to the city. CAST A MOUNT] earth was carried in baskets and poured in a heap until it was on a level with the walls: cp. this method of assault in 2 Kings 19...
HEW YE DOWN TREES, AND CAST A MOUNT. — The words describe graphically the process of an Eastern siege as seen in the Assyrian bas-reliefs (Layard, _Mon. of Nineveh,_ i. 73-76). Compare 2 Samuel 20:15;...
כִּ֣י כֹ֤ה אָמַר֙ יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֔ות כִּרְת֣וּ...
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,...
I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...
The Prophet now points out the cause why a near calamity awaited both the city and the whole of Judea. Two things were necessary to be done: as the Jews had hardened themselves in their thoughtlessnes...
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...
FOR THUS HATH THE LORD OF HOSTS SAID,.... To the Chaldeans; for as it was the Lord that brought them out of their own country, and directed them to Jerusalem, and ordered them to prepare war against i...
For thus hath the LORD of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem: this [is] the city to be visited; she [is] wholly oppression in the midst of her. Ver. 6. _For thus hath t...
_For thus hath the Lord of hosts said_ To the Chaldeans: God would have the Jews to know, that they have not so much to do with the Chaldeans as with him; that they are his rod to scourge them for the...
For thus hath the Lord of hosts said, either the prophet or the enemies inserting this statement in explanation of the assault made on Jerusalem, HEW YE DOWN TREES AND CAST A MOUNT AGAINST JERUSALEM,...
THE ADVICE TO FLEE FROM JERUSALEM...
CAST A MOUNT: Or, pour out the engine of shot...
1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean a...
SAID, viz. to the Chaldeans. Here God declares whence they have their commission: q.d. They come not up on their own heads: see JEREMIAH 5:14,15. God would have the Jews to know that they have not so...
Jeremiah 6:6 LORD H3068 hosts H6635 said H559 (H8804) down H3772 (H8798) trees H6097 build H8210 ...
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...
HIS PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR ACTION BECAUSE THE INVASION IS UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 6:1). As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own tribe), who were to the north of Jerusalem,...
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...
_Arise, and let us go up at noon._ CHRISTIAN EFFORT That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our pilgrimage to...
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 1:3; 2 Kings 21:16; Amos 4:1; Amos 8:5; Amos 8:6;...
Said — To the Chaldeans: God would have the Jews to know, that they have not so much to do with the Chaldeans as with him; that they are his rod to scourge them for their sins. And thus God is said to...