Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 8:3
This evil family - The whole Jewish race.
Which remain - The words are omitted by the Septuagint and Syriac versions.
This evil family - The whole Jewish race.
Which remain - The words are omitted by the Septuagint and Syriac versions.
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...
JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for t...
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Jeremiah 6:6. Compare 1 Samuel 1:3....
The thoughts correspond closely with Leviticus 26:36 ff.; Deuteronomy 28:65 ff. _family_ See on Jeremiah 3:14. _which remain_ repeated in MT. by the error of a copyist....
JEREMIAH 8:3. _FAMILY_— _Generation._...
B. The Future Destruction Jeremiah 7:32 to Jeremiah 8:3 TRANSLATION (32) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no longer be called the Topheth or the valley of the son...
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. DEATH SHAL...
FAMILY] the whole nation: see on Jeremiah 3:14. 4-17. The people are hardened in sin....
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
THE RESIDUE OF THEM THAT REMAIN. — Once more the emphasis of re-iteration, “the remnant of a remnant.” The “evil family” is the whole house of Israel, but the words contemplate specially the exile of...
וְ נִבְחַ֥ר מָ֨וֶת֙ מֵֽ חַיִּי֔ם לְ כֹ֗ל
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
And death shall be chosen (b) rather than life by all the remnant of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. (b) Because...
It is more than probable, that the ransacking of the sepulchres of the kings of Israel and Judah by the enemy, was more in their view to find treasure, than to show contempt. David's grave we are told...
He intimates in this verse, that all survivors would be doubly miserable, as it would be better for them to die at once than to pine away in unceasing evils: for they who give another meaning to the w...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
AND DEATH SHALL BE CHOSEN RATHER THAN LIFE,.... By them that should be alive in those times, who would be carried captive into other lands, and be used very hardly, and suffer greatly, by the nations...
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. Ver. 3. _And...
_And death shall be chosen rather than life_ Not through a lively and well-grounded hope of happiness in another life, but through an utter despair of any ease in this life. It denotes the extremity o...
RETRIBUTION UPON THE JEWS...
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts, literally, "s...
1-3 Though no real hurt can be done to a dead body, yet disgrace to the remains of wicked persons may alarm those yet alive; and this reminds us that the Divine justice and punishments extend beyond t...
AND DEATH SHALL BE CHOSEN RATHER THAN LIFE; a description of the unexpressibleness of their misery, that notwithstanding all the barbarism of the Babylonians exercised both upon the bring and the dead...
Jeremiah 8:3 death H4194 chosen H977 (H8738) life H2416 residue H7611 remain H7604 (H8737) evil H7451 family...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...
1 Kings 19:4; Daniel 9:7; Deuteronomy 30:1; Deuteronomy 30:4;...