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All orders and degrees of men in the state would be broken in
indiscriminate destruction....
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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
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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...
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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....
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_And I will dash them one against another_ Seized with the giddiness
which accompanies intoxication, they shall be a source of mutual
destruction.
_even the fathers and the sons together_ The overthr...
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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...
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And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the
sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have
mercy, but destroy them.
I WILL DASH THEM ONE AGAINST ANOTHER...
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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,...
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ONE AGAINST ANOTHER. — The rendering answers to the Hebrew idiom,
but that idiom, as in the margin, _a man against his brother,_ has a
force which is lacking in the English, and forms a transition fro...
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וְ נִפַּצְתִּים֩ אִ֨ישׁ אֶל ־אָחִ֜יו
וְ הָ
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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...
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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...
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And I will (c) dash them one against another, even the fathers and the
sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have
mercy, but destroy them.
(c) It will be as easy for me to de...
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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...
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It may now be asked, What was this drunkenness which the Prophet
announces? It may be understood in two ways, — either that God would
give them up to a reprobate mind, — or that he would make them dru...
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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...
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AND I WILL DASH THEM ONE AGAINST ANOTHER,.... As drunken men fall foul
on one another, and quarrel and fight; or in allusion to bottles and
earthen vessels they are before compared to; and may denote...
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And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the
sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have
mercy, but destroy them.
Ver. 14. _And I will dash them one agai...
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_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...
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And I will dash them one against another, like a potter's vessel, EVEN
THE FATHERS AND THE SONS TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD, the older
generation. perishing with the younger, since both are in the same
c...
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AN EXHORTATION WITH REGARD TO THE IMPENDING DESTRUCTION...
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ONE AGAINST ANOTHER:
_ Heb._ a man against his brother
BUT DESTROY THEM:
_ Heb._ from destroying them...
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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...
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And I will set them one against another, raising up an evil spirit of
division amongst them, that they shall be like earthen bottles dashed
one against another, which are easily broken in pieces. I wi...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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.,...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 14:16; 2 Chronicles 20:23; Deuteronomy 29:20; Ezekiel 24:14;...