Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Jeremiah 4:29
The whole city shall flee— All the cities have fled, &c. All the cities are forsaken, and there are no inhabitants in them. Houb.
The whole city shall flee— All the cities have fled, &c. All the cities are forsaken, and there are no inhabitants in them. Houb.
THE WHOLE CITY ... - Rather, Every city is fleeing. All the inhabitants of the tokens flee to Jerusalem for protection, or seek refuge in the woods and rocks. THE HORSEMEN AND BOWMEN - The cavalry Je...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. True repentance and what it means (Jeremiah 4:1) _ 2. The alarm sounded: judgment comes (Jeremiah 4:5) 3. The doom of the rebellious people (Jeremiah 4:14) 4. The desolation of I
THE VISION OF DESOLATION (Jeremiah 4:23) most impressively describes the Divine visitation of Judah. The earth becomes like the chaos before creation (_mg._) under a sky that has lost its lamps; the v...
CITY. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), for its inhabitants. EVERY. all, as in preceding clause....
_The whole city the whole_ LAND. So LXX, supported by Targ. The word "city" was introduced by mistake from the latter part of the _v_. _bowmen_ Cp. Jeremiah 5:16. The Scythians were noted for skill i...
Embellishments of the person are of no avail. Zion cries out in vain before an implacable foe. See summary at commencement of section....
Jeremiah 4:5-31. Impending judgements. National disaster This section and the two that follow it (viz. chs. 5 and 6) are somewhat later than the preceding, as presenting a more definite description o...
3. _Inevitable judgment_ (Jeremiah 4:27-31) TRANSLATION (27) For thus says the LORD: All the land shall become a desolation; but I will not make a full end of it. (28) On account of this the land sha...
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. WHOLE CITY...
4:29 city (f-10) Or 'the whole city.'...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
5-10. Destruction approaches Jerusalem....
THE HORSEMEN AND BOWMEN. — A specially characteristic picture, as we see from the Nineveh sculptures, of Assyrian and Chaldæan armies. THICKETS... ROCKS. — Both words are Aramaic in the original. The...
מִ קֹּ֨ול פָּרָ֜שׁ וְ רֹ֣מֵה קֶ֗שֶׁת בֹּרַ֨חַ
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would under
Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He appealed to the people to repent, and that not in exte...
There is somewhat uncommonly solemn and striking, when the Lord by his servants, as in many parts of scripture, calls upon the heavenly bodies, and the inanimate parts of nature, to lament by their ap...
By saying, that at the _voice _or sound of _horsemen and bowmen_, there would be an universal flight, he means, that the enemies would come with such impetuosity, that the Jews would not dare to wait...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6. Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be unto th...
THE WHOLE CITY SHALL FLEE,.... Or, "every city"; for not Jerusalem only is meant, but every city, or the inhabitants of every city; and so the Targum paraphrases it, "all the inhabitants of the land,...
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city [shall be] forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. Ver. 29. _Ev...
_For this shall the earth mourn_, &c. More expressions to set forth the dreadfulness of the judgment: he makes the elements to personate mourners. _And the heavens above be black_ Under sad calamities...
The whole city, or, "every city," all the cities of the land, SHALL FLEE FOR THE NOISE OF THE HORSEMEN AND BOWMEN, as the invading army draws near; THEY SHALL GO INTO THICKETS, their hiding-places, AN...
The Desolation Following the Lord's Judgment. The prophet here, in a most dramatic manner, introduces Israel as lamenting over the calamity which has struck the nation....
19-31 The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion. Compared with what it was, every thing is out of order; but the ruin of the Jew...
THE WHOLE CITY SHALL FLEE; the inhabitants of all ranks and qualities shall seek to escape the fury of this Chaldean army, JEREMIAH 39:4. FOR THE NOISE; either upon the report of their coming, hereby...
Jeremiah 4:29 city H5892 flee H1272 (H8802) noise H6963 horsemen H6571 bowmen H7198 H7411 (H8802) go...
YHWH WARNS JUDAH THAT IF THEY WILL NOT REPENT FOR THEM TOO INVASION BY A FIERCE ADVERSARY IS THREATENING AND WILL UNDOUBTEDLY COME BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS (JEREMIAH 4:3). If Judah will not respond to th...
JEREMIAH'S VISION OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE INVASION (JEREMIAH 4:23). In chilling tones Jeremiah now pictures the land after its destruction, as he, as it were, looks around and sees all the devastation...
Jeremiah 4:1. _If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove. And thou shalt swear, The LORD l...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. Warning of the consequences of sin and exhortation to return to God. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is the evil of men's doings that kindle...
Jeremiah 4:3. _Break up your fallow ground._ Hebrews ניר _nir, novale;_ make _new_ land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12. Our old phrase, the fallow deer, seems to give the exact import of the word....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Chronology_ of the chapter, _Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History_ as in chap. 3. 1. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES. Jeremiah 4:5. “_Defenced cities_....
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 4:1, JEREMIAH 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, _If thou wilt return_,_ O Israel_,_ saith Jehovah_,_ wilt return unto me_;_ and if thou wilt...
But if you will return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if you will put away thine abominations out of my sight, then you will no longer be [moved or] removed. And thou shalt swear, The...
1 Samuel 13:6; 2 Chronicles 33:11; 2 Kings 25:4; Amos 9:1; Isaiah 2: