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Verse Jeremiah 46:5. _WHEREFORE HAVE I SEEN THEM DISMAYED_] What! such
a numerous, formidable, and well-appointed army panic-struck? So that
they have _turned back-fled apace_, and _looked not round_;...
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Literally, “Why have I seen? They are terror-stricken! they are
giving way back!” The Egyptian host feels that the battle is lost,
and overborne by the enemy loses heart, and in despair, yet not
witho...
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IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS
CHAPTER 46
Concerning Egypt
_ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _
2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13)
3. A messa...
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JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal
division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5;
Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...
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BEATEN DOWN. crushed.
FLED APACE. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_. Hebrew fled. flight. Well
rendered "fled apace".
FEAR WAS ROUND ABOUT. Hebrew. _magor missabib_. terror round about.
See note on Jere...
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_Wherefore … dismayed_ The LXX rightly omit the first Hebrew verb,
and render, "Wherefore are they dismayed?"
_terror is on every side_ Jeremiah's characteristic expression. See on
ch. Jeremiah 6:25....
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Oracles against foreign nations
Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's
_Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that
the whole or a considerable part of the...
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Co. declines to accept objections which have been brought by some
recent commentators to the substantial genuineness of these _vv_., and
Gi. on the whole agrees, but considers the passage to have been...
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These verses give us a lively description of the preparation and the
advance, which were followed by the disastrous defeat at Carchemish....
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND THE NATIONS
Jeremiah 46:1 to Jeremiah 49:39
With the exception of the Book of Hosea, every prophetic book of the
Old Testament contains at least one oracle concer...
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Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their
mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back:
for fear was round about, saith the LORD.
WHEREFORE HAVE I SE...
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46:5 side, (a-29) See ch. 6.25....
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AGAINST EGYPT
1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
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SEEN THEM DISMAYED] RV 'seen it? They are dismayed.'...
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WHEREFORE HAVE I SEEN THEM DISMAYED...? — The prophet speaks as
seeing already in his mind’s eye the confusion of the defeated army,
with no way to escape, driven back on the Euphrates. In the “fear
r...
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מַדּ֣וּעַ רָאִ֗יתִי הֵ֣מָּה חַתִּים֮
נְסֹגִ֣ים אָחֹור֒...
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CHAPTER XVII
EGYPT
Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1
"I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and
their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....
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The third and last section of the division containing the account of
the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the
nations.
The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...
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(d) Why have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their
mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and look not back:
[for] fear [was] on all sides, saith the LORD.
(d) The prophet...
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CHAPTER XLVI.
_ Seen. The prophets usually speak as if things were already past.
(Worthington)_...
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At this Chapter begins the judgments of God against the enemies of
Israel. The Lord hath had a long controversy with his people; but now
in the midst of it, he will reckon with their foes. And first f...
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For it immediately follows, _Why, _or how, _have I seen them broken?
_Here the Prophet, on the other hand, disregards all the things which
he before enumerated in such high terms, for he spoke, as it...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51.
Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already
mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies
against t...
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WHEREFORE HAVE I SEEN THEM DISMAYED [AND] TURNED AWAY BACK?.... The
Egyptians, after all this preparation for war, and seeming ardent to
engage in battle; and yet, when they came to it, were seized wi...
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Wherefore have I seen them dismayed [and] turned away back? and their
mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back:
[for] fear [was] round about, saith the LORD.
Ver. 5. _Wheref...
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_Order ye the buckler_, &c. In these verses the mighty preparations of
the Egyptians for war are described, which causes the prophet, who
foresees the defeat, to express, as he does in the next two ve...
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THE FIRST PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
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Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? the soldiers
who set out so confidently for the attack being overcome with terror
at their defeat. AND THEIR MIGHTY ONES ARE BEATEN DOWN, brok...
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BEATEN DOWN:
_ Heb._ broken in pieces
FLED APACE:
_ Heb._ fled a flight...
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1-12 The whole word of God is against those who obey not the gospel of
Christ; but it is for those, even of the Gentiles, who turn to Him.
The prophecy begins with Egypt. Let them strengthen themselve...
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God had either in a vision showed Jeremiah this army of the Egyptians
flying, or else had revealed to him that they should be put to flight,
which the prophet here publisheth. God made a fear to fall...
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A). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S DEFEAT OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AT
CARCHEMISH IN 605 BC (JEREMIAH 46:2).
The importance of this prophesy to a people reeling under the
unexpected death of their good...
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UTTER DEFEAT (JEREMIAH 46:5).
In deliberately stark contrast we are now given the picture of this
once proud army fleeing in tatters. It is as though it was written by
an onlooker behind the lines wh...
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CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar.
CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on
unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...
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Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to
have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the
Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint.
Jeremiah 4...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations.
Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations
(Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE
CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of
Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of
Charchemish. This se...
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EXPOSITION
This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies
united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to
supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...
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Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28.
Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of
the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of
miscellaneous prophec...
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2 Kings 7:6; 2 Kings 7:7; Ezekiel 32:10; Genesis 19:17; Isaiah 19:16;...