Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Jeremiah 46:8
I will go up. Egypt at this time was so strong that Jeremiah's prophecy seemed most unlikely to come to pass.
I will go up. Egypt at this time was so strong that Jeremiah's prophecy seemed most unlikely to come to pass.
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Who is this … Egypt riseth up like the Nile_ The mg. is to be preferred. Egypt's boast that she will spread herself in conquest over the earth is illustrated by the annual rise of the Nile, flooding...
_and his waters toss themselves like the rivers_ The LXX omit, but, as the _v_. stands in MT., this clause is wanted for the parallelism. _he saith_ viz. Pharaoh, addressing his army. _the city and_...
WHO IS THIS, &C.— The prophet speaks of Necho, and represents the grand preparations which he made to go to the succour of Carchemish. He flattered himself that nothing was capable of resisting the fo...
B. The Second Picture of Egyptian Defeat Jeremiah 46:7-12 TRANSLATION (7) Who is this that goes up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the river? (8) Egypt goes up like the Nile and his...
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. EGYPT RISETH UP L...
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH UP AS A FLOOD?... — The Hebrew word for “flood” is used as a proper name almost exclusively (Daniel 12:5 being the only exception) for the Nile (_e.g.,_ Genesis 41:1; Exodus 2:...
מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ כַּ † יְאֹ֣ר יַֽעֲלֶ֔ה וְ כַ...
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....
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...
_City; Babylon, and every fort which shall oppose my progress. (Calmet)_...
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...
Then he adds, _Egypt _is like _rivers _and like a _lake_: it made a noise with its forces, as though a river were rolling along its waters. But all this would be nothing, as he afterwards tells us he...
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...
EGYPT RISETH UP AS A FLOOD, AND [HIS] WATERS ARE MOVED LIKE THE RIVERS,.... This is the answer to the above question; that it was Egypt that was seen; the king of Egypt, as the Syriac version; he with...
Egypt riseth up like a flood, and [his] waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, [and] will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof. Ver. 8. _Egypt r...
_Who is this that cometh up as a flood_ Here the king of Egypt is compared to a mighty river, the Nile, or the Euphrates, when it swells above its banks, and threatens to overwhelm the country with ru...
THE FIRST PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
Egypt riseth up like a flood, like the mighty Nile itself, AND HIS WATERS ARE MOVED LIKE THE RIVERS, like the rush of water near its mouths; AND HE SAITH, I WILL GO UP AND WILL COVER THE EARTH; I WILL...
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...
The prophet compareth the Egyptians, fleshed with their former victory obtained against Josiah at Megiddo, and now preparing to another expedition, to a flood, (with allusion probably to the river Nil...
Jeremiah 46:8 Egypt H4714 up H5927 (H8799) flood H2975 waters H4325 move H1607 (H8704) rivers H5104 says...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
Exodus 15:10; Exodus 15:9; Ezekiel 29:3; Ezekiel 32:2; Isaiah 10:13;...