AT THE SAME TIME: i.e. in the latter days (Jeremiah 30:24). THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. OF. to. ALL. Not Judah alone. THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:12). App-92. Compare Jeremiah 30:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN. WENT. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3.Numbers 10:33.Deuteronomy 1:33; Deuteronomy 1:33). App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERLASTING LOVE. See notes on Isaiah 44:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAIN... AGAIN, &C. App-92. Figure of speech _Anaphora_. TABRETS. See notes on Exodus 15:20; 1 Samuel 10:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
VINES. vineyards. MOUNTAINS.. special reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), reads "cities". EAT THEM AS COMMON THINGS. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:23.Deuteronomy 20:6; Deuteronomy 28:30). Compare Isaiah 62:9. App-92.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE SHALL BE. there is. Hebrew. _yesh._ See note on Proverbs 8:21, and Proverbs 18:24. MOUNT. hill country.... [ Continue Reading ]
JACOB. Note the frequent use of "Jacob" in these Chapter s, referring to the natural seed. SAVE THY PEOPLE. Compare the Hebrew _Hosannah._ See Psalms 118:25, and see note on Matthew 21:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ GATHER. gather out. COASTS. borders, or extremities. COMPANY. an organized community. THITHER. hither.... [ Continue Reading ]
RIVERS. streams. Hebrew nahal. a wady. EPHRAIM IS MY FIRSTBORN. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 4:22). App-92. "My firstborn" occurs nowhere else. Compare Psalms 89:27. Ephraim is put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Part), for all the ten tribes.... [ Continue Reading ]
ISLES. coastlands, or maritime countries. HE THAT SCATTERED, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 30:3).... [ Continue Reading ]
REDEEMED. liberated, or redeemed (by power). Hebrew. _padah._ See note on Exodus 13:13. RANSOMED. redeemed (by blood) and avenged. Hebrew. _ga'al._ See note on Exodus 6:6. STRONGER. See note on Psalms 35:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
FLOW TOGETHER. Same word as in Jeremiah 51:44.Isaiah 2:2.Micah 4:1. WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ App-27. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._... [ Continue Reading ]
A VOICE WAS HEARD, &C. Quoted in Matthew 2:18. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 35:19). App-92. IN RAMAH. on the high place. Evidently. "high place" near Bethlehem.. common name in Palestine. The Targum and Vulg, read "in. high place". RAHEL. Rachel. The mother of Joseph and Benjamin (i.e. Ephraim... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL BE REWARDED. there exists. reward. Hebrew. _yesh._ See note on Jeremiah 31:6. COME AGAIN: i.e. in resurrection. Compare Jeremiah 31:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE IS. there exists. Hebrew. _yesh_. Compare Jeremiah 31:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE SURELY HEARD, &C. Figure of speech _Prolepsis._ HAST CHASTISED. didst chastise. WAS CHASTISED. I have been chastised. TURN THOU ME. cause Thou me to return.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILD. a young child. Hebrew. _yalad._ MY BOWELS ARE TROUBLED. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:36). Compare Duke Jeremiah 15:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
SET THEE UP. Erect. MAKE THEE. set up. HIGH HEAPS: i.e. finger posts.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO ABOUT: i.e. in order to elude by withdrawing. Elsewhere only in Song of Solomon 5:6. NEW THING. The interpretation must satisfy this condition. IN THE EARTH. in the land. This is another condition. A WOMAN. A spouse: i.e. Israel shall turn and cleave to the Mighty One. See Genesis 1:27; Genesis... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 7:3. BRING AGAIN. This cannot be spiritualized.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 2:4. THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. See note on Jeremiah 3:18. Here we have the union of the two houses. Israel is always named first, for this was the name of the whole nation, which Judah was not. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
WATCHED. Compare Jeremiah 1:12 (same word). AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6).... [ Continue Reading ]
SET ON EDGE.. proverb, mentioned here for the first time. Here restated, and corrected in Jeremiah 31:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ Quoted in Hebrews 8:8; Hebrews 10:16; Hebrews 10:17. I WILL MAKE. See Matthew 26:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT. MADE. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 24:3). App-92. I TOOK THEM BY THE HAND, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 19:4.Deuteronomy 1:31; Deuteronomy 32:11; Deuteronomy 32:12). App-92. ALTHOUGH. WAS AN HUSBAND UNTO THEM. The Hebrew _ba'al_ is. _Homonym_ with two meanings: (1) _to be lord,_ or... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOUSE OF, &C. Some codices, with four early printed editions (one in margin), read "the sons of": i.e. of the whole nation. IN THEIR HEARTS. on their hearts. Compare Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26; Hebrews 10:16. AND WILL BE THEIR GOD. Compare Jeremiah 24:7; Jeremiah 30:22; Jeremiah 32:38.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. THEY SHALL ALL KNOW ME. See note on Jeremiah 9:24. KNOW. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for all the effects of knowing Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVETH THE SUN, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 1:16). ORDINANCES. statutes. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 8:22). Compare Jeremiah 33:20; Jeremiah 33:25. DIVIDETH. -stirreth up, or exciteth. THE LORD OF HOSTS. See note on Jeremiah 6:6, and 1 Samuel 1:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THOSE ORDINANCES. So sure is the literal fulfilment of these prophecies concerning the literal restoration of Israel. THE SEED. Note the Structure (on p. 1061). FOR EVER. all the days.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF HEAVEN ABOVE, &C. Another asseveration as to the literal fulfilment of Israel's restoration.... [ Continue Reading ]
COME. This word is not in the Hebrew text, "but it is in the margin, as well as in some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, which read "Lo, days are coming". THE TOWER OF HANANEEL. On the north-east corner. UNTO. as far as. THE GATE OF THE CORNER... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON. over.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), reads "as far as", with some codices, Aramaean, and Septuagint GAREB... GOATH. Not named elsewhere.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIELDS. Hebrew text reads "dry places", but the margin, with some codices and seven early printed editions, Authorized Version and Revised Version, read "fields". HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:6. FOR EVER. for times age-abiding: for aye.... [ Continue Reading ]