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Verse Jeremiah 16:5. _ENTER NOT INTO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING_] The
public calamities are too great to permit individual losses to come
into consideration....
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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...
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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...
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TAKEN AWAY. Hebrew. _'asaph._. _Homonym,_ with two meanings: (1) to
protect, or heal (Numbers 12:14; Numbers 12:15; 2 Kings 5:6; Psalms
27:10
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_Enter not_ The prophet's abstinence from the accustomed marks of
respect to the dead and sympathy with the relatives is to be a
forecast of the time when such abstinence shall become general on
accou...
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III. PROPHETIC CONDUCT Jeremiah 16:1-21
Jeremiah came through his personal crisis. He repented and God took
him back. Now that the rebellious prophet was humble and contrite, God
gives him further ins...
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For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,
neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace
from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies....
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1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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THE HOUSE OF MOURNING. — Better, _mourning-feast._ The word is found
only here and in Amos 6:7, where it is translated “banquet.” So
the Vulg. gives here _domus convivii,_ and the LXX. the Greek word...
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כִּֽי ־כֹ֣ה ׀ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֗ה אַל
־תָּבֹוא֙ בּ
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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...
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For thus saith the LORD, (b) Enter not into the house of mourning,
neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace
from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and merc...
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_Feasting: usual at burials for all relations. (Calmet) --- This
custom reduced many to poverty. (Josephus, Jewish Wars ii. 1.) --- Sed
cænam funerishæres_
Negliget iratus quod rem curtaverit. (Pers....
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I venture to read this precept given to Jeremiah concerning marriage
while in Babylon, both with a national and spiritual view. No
alliances were to be made by the people of God, with their idolatrous...
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As Jeremiah was forbidden at the beginning of the chapter to take a
wife, for a dreadful devastation of the whole land was very nigh; so
now God confirms what he had previously said, that so great wou...
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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...
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FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD, ENTER NOT INTO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING,.... On
account of his dead relations or neighbours; since they were taken
away from the evil to come, and therefore no occasion to mourn...
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For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither
go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this
people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies....
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_Enter not into the house of mourning_ Or, of _a mourning feast_,
according to the reading in the margin, the word מרזח, occurring
also Amos 6:7, and being there rendered _a banquet._ The sense seems...
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For thus saith the Lord, in bidding Jeremiah refrain from every show
of sympathy for the fate of the apostate people, ENTER NOT INTO THE
HOUSE OF MOURNING, where some one had died and where people wer...
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THE INSTRUCTION OF JEHOVAH...
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MOURNING:
Or, mourning feast...
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1-9 The prophet must conduct himself as one who expected to see his
country ruined very shortly. In the prospect of sad times, he is to
abstain from marriage, mourning for the dead, and pleasure. Tho...
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OLBHeb;
Mourning, xzdj There is so great a difference in the translation of
this word, that, AMOS 6:7, the very same word signifieth a banquet,
and is so translated; yet is there no contradiction, for...
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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...
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THE SECOND SIGN: ABSTENTION FROM MOURNING (JEREMIAH 16:5).
The second sign was to be seen as the abstention from mourning and
from attendance at funerals. Proper mourning for the dead was again
seen a...
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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...
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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...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 16:5 God commands Jeremiah not to attend
funerals or mourn the dead, again as a testimony that God has TAKEN
AWAY his PEACE. God’s protection (STEADFAST LOVE) is
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 15:5; 2 Chronicles 15:6; Deuteronomy 31:17; Ezekiel
24:16;...
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Enter not — Do not go to comfort such as mourn for any relations
dead, (for their feastings upon those occasions were upon a
consolatory account) those that die are most happy, for I will take
away th...