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LARGE CHAMBERS - spacious upper chambers.
IT IS CIELED - Or, roofing it.
VERMILION - The pigment which gives the deep red color still bright
and untarnished on many ancient buildings....
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CONCERNING THE KINGS OF JUDAH (22:1-23:8)
CHAPTER 22
_ 1. The message in the house of the king of Judah (Jeremiah 22:1) _
2. Touching Shallum, the King of Judah (Jeremiah 22:11)
3. Concerning Jeho...
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JEREMIAH 22:1 TO JEREMIAH 23:8. This section contains several distinct
Jeremianic prophecies, relating to contemporary kings of Judah; they
have been editorially collected, probably with some expansio...
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LARGE. airy, or roomy.
WINDOWS. its windows.
CIELED. panelled....
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There is considerable variance between MT. and LXX in this v., but the
general sense is clear.
_windows_ The Hebrew word is unusual in its form. Michaelis by a
different division of words, renders …...
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See introd. summary to section. It probably belongs to the early years
of Jehoiakim, but see on Jeremiah 22:18....
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WOE UNTO HIM THAT BUILDETH, &C.— The prophet proceeds to denounce
God's judgments against Jehoiakim, who had built himself a stately
palace in those calamitous times, and took no care to pay the wages...
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2. _The folly of Jehoiakim_ (Jeremiah 22:13-23)
TRANSLATION
(13) Woe to him that builds his house with unrighteousness and his
upper chambers with injustice; who makes his neighbor serve for
nothing...
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That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and
cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with
vermilion.
A WIDE HOUSE - literally, a house of dimensions ...
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22:14 wainscoted (c-24) Or 'covered,' 'ceiled,' as 1 Kings 6:9 ;
Haggai 1:4 ....
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1-9. Call to amendment of life....
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LARGE CHAMBERS. — As before, “upper storeys _or_ chambers.”
CUTTETH HIM OUT WINDOWS. — The verb is the same as that used in
Jeremiah 4:30 for dilating the eyes by the use of antimony, and
implies acc...
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הָ אֹמֵ֗ר אֶבְנֶה ־לִּי֙ בֵּ֣ית
מִדֹּ֔ות וַ
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CHAPTER VI
THE JUDGMENT ON JEHOIAKIM
Jeremiah 22:13; Jeremiah 36:30
"Jehoiakim slew him (Uriah) with the sword, and cast his dead body
into the graves of the common people."- Jeremiah 26:23...
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The message Jeremiah gave the deputation was not enough. He was
commanded to go to the house of the king. This he did, and what he
there said occupies the succeeding Chapter s up to and including
chap...
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CHAPTER XXII.
_ Wide. Hebrew, "measured;" large, and well-proportioned. ---
Vermilion, ( cynopide.) This colour was invented in the town of
Pontus, and was used for statues, &c. (Pliny, [Natural Hist...
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What a solemn woe, this short but pointed sermon begins with: and what
an awful close is made of it, in the application to the king. Is it
not astonishing, that any Preacher, and at such a time; shoul...
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Some render the last words, “and painted with red;_” _but
vermilion is a kind of red. They, indeed, mention three kinds of red,
— deep red, brownish, and the third mixed with various colors; but
vermi...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23.
On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord
would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the
Spir...
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THAT SAITH, I WILL BUILD ME A WIDE HOUSE,.... Or, "a house of
measures", or, "dimensions" i; a very large house, whose length and
breadth measure much consisting of many spacious rooms, upper as well...
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That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and
cutteth him out windows; and [it is] cieled with cedar, and painted
with vermilion.
Ver. 14. _I will build me a wide house._] Heb., A...
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_Wo unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness,_ &c. “The
prophet proceeds to denounce God's judgments against Jehoiakim, (see
Jeremiah 22:18,) who, it seems, built himself a stately palace i...
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PROPHECIES RELATING TO SHALLUM, JEHOIKIM, AND JEHOIACHIN...
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that saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, roomy,
airy upper chambers, AND CUTTETH HIM OUT WINDOWS, with wide and high
openings, such as were found in the palaces of the rich; AND IT...
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LARGE:
_ Heb._ through aired
WINDOWS:
Or, my windows...
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10-19 Here is a sentence of death upon two kings, the wicked sons of
a very pious father. Josiah was prevented from seeing the evil to come
in this world, and removed to see the good to come in the o...
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That is, Woe to that man, who suffering oppression in his government,
or making it his business himself to oppress, yet buildeth himself
great houses and large chambers, ceiling them with cedar, promi...
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THE INADEQUACY OF ALL THE CURRENT SONS OF DAVID TO DELIVER JUDAH
(JEREMIAH 22:10).
Having dealt with Zedekiah, Nebuchadrezzar'a appointee, in the opening
passage of the subsection, and having shown th...
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THE INADEQUACY OF JEHOIAKIM (JEREMIAH 22:13).
With Jehoahaz out of the way as a prospect hopes may have turned on
Jehoiakim, whom Pharaoh had made king in place of his brother, having
changed his name...
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CONTENTS: Message to Zedekiah, concluded. The King exhorted to execute
judgment.
CHARACTERS: God, Zedekiah, Shallum, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Coniah,
Nebuchadnezzar.
CONCLUSION: God never casts one off...
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Jeremiah 22:10. _Weep not for the dead,_ as you have wept bitterly for
king Josiah, but weep for him who goes into captivity, for he shall
return no more.
Jeremiah 22:11. _Shallum the son of Josiah._...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 22:13 Jehoiakim (609–598 B.C.) built a
palace for himself while his people suffered. He required his subjects
to work on the project without compensation. Contrast this with...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Early
in Jehoiakim’s reign; contemporary with chap. 22. See Notes. Dr.
_Payne Smith_ places this prophecy prior to Jehoiakim’s
manifestatio...
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EXPOSITION
Jeremiah 22:1 and Jeremiah 23:1, are connected together by similarity
of subject. The temporal and spiritual leaders of the people, who are
mainly responsible for the national catastrophe,...
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Now the Lord commanded Jeremiah to go down to the king's house and
speak there at the king's house this word. The other, it was a message
sent back to the king. Now go on down to his house and speak t...
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2 Chronicles 3:5; 2 Samuel 7:2; Daniel 4:30; Haggai 1:4; Isaiah 5:8;...