Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Jeremiah 10:17
Gather up, etc.] i.e. collect articles for a hasty flight, O thou who art in a besieged city'; i.e. prepare for exile.
Gather up, etc.] i.e. collect articles for a hasty flight, O thou who art in a besieged city'; i.e. prepare for exile.
Verse Jeremiah 10:17. _GATHER UP THY WARES_] Pack up your goods, or what necessaries of life your enemies will permit you to carry away; for,-...
The prophet now returns to the main subject of his sermon, the conquest of Judaea. THY WARES - Rather, thy bundle, which could contain a few articles for necessary use, and be carried in the hand. Th...
CHAPTER 10 The Vanity of Idols _ 1. Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven (Jeremiah 10:1) _ 2. The contrast: The vanity of idols and the Lord, the King of Nations (Jeremiah 10:6) 3. The afflictio...
THE DEPARTURE INTO EXILE. The personified community is told to pick up its bundle (_mg.),_ and prepare for the inevitable exile. She bewails her hurt and her spoilt dwelling. These troubles, says the...
GATHER UP. Gather in. Occurs only here. WARES. bundle. For that is all they would be able to take with them. INHABITANT. inhabitress. Put for "the daughter of Zion". FORTRESS. Put by Figure of spee...
_thy wares out of the land_ the Hebrew word occurs here only, and is of doubtful meaning. This rendering connects it with the Hebrew root of Canaanite; the Canaanites being the merchants best known to...
Du. and Co. omit these _vv_., Du. rejecting 20, 21 also, while Gi. omits Jeremiah 10:18. See note on it....
Exile is at hand. Appeal to Jehovah in His wrath to remember mercy The utterances, interrupted by Jeremiah 9:23-26, and Jeremiah 10:1-16, are now continued. The passage has apparently suffered both b...
GATHER UP THY WARES— That is, "Collect to Jerusalem all that you have valuable in the country: fly thither for refuge, with your best effects; for the enemy will soon extend himself all over your land...
C. The Folly of Forsaking God Jeremiah 10:17-22 TRANSLATION (17) Gather your bundle from the land, you who dwell in the siege. (18) For thus says the LORD! Behold, I am about to hurl out the inhabita...
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. GATHER UP THY WARES - thine effects or movable goods (, "Thou Son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in t...
10:17 fortress. (d-13) Or 'thou that dwellest in the straitness' (i.e. 'distress') or 'in the siege.'...
GATHER UP THY WARES. — The section from Jeremiah 10:1 inclusive had been as a long parenthesis, reproving Israel for the sin which placed it among the “uncircumcised in the heart” (Jeremiah 9:26). Now...
אִסְפִּ֥י מֵ אֶ֖רֶץ כִּנְעָתֵ֑ךְ _יֹשֶׁ֖בֶת_† בַּ †...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Jeremiah 10:1-10; Jeremiah 19:1-15; Jeremiah 20:1-18; Jeremiah 21:1-14; Jeremiah 22:1-30; Jeremiah 23:1-40; Jeremiah 24:1-10; Jeremiah 25:1-38...
Here begins the third movement in the commissioning of the prophet. In it the sin of idolatry is first dealt with. The prophet revealed the unutterable folly of idolatry in a powerful contrast between...
(k) Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. (k) The prophet wills the Jews to prepare themselves for this captivity, showing that it was now at hand that they would feel th...
_Shame. Idols. See if they will keep thee. Hebrew, "thy merchandise," or most precious effects._...
The Prophet gets back again to his old subject. The prospect of the Babylonish captivity so affected the Prophet's heart, that he could harp upon no other string. And observe, how the man of God gives...
The first verse which we have recited, the Rabbins think, is addressed to the Chaldeans, but in my view very incorrectly. Jeremiah had indeed said that all the nations who devised gods of stone and of...
In chapter 10 the idols and the vanities of the nations are put in contrast with Jehovah. In Verses 19-25 (Jeremiah 10:19-25) we have the affliction of the prophet, speaking of the desolation of Jerus...
GATHER UP THY WARES OUT OF THE LAND,.... Or thy merchandise, as the Targum; or thy substance, as the Septuagint; all valuable effects and goods that are movable, which might be carried from place to p...
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress. Ver. 17. _Gather up thy wares out of the land._] Make up thy pack, and prevent a plundering. _Reculas tuas et sarcinas compone._...
_Gather up thy wares_, &c. That is, as some explain it, “Collect to Jerusalem all that you have valuable in the country; flee thither for refuge with your best effects; for the enemy will soon extend...
The Prophet's Lamentation and Prayer...
Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress, literally, "Collect thy bundle from the earth, thou that sittest in the distress of the siege," the summons being issued to the entir...
INHABITANT: _ Heb._ inhabitress...
17-25 The Jews who continued in their own land, felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that its threatenings are not empty terrors. Submi...
The prophet now enters upon another subject, and probably begins another sermon. GATHER UP THY WARES, i.e. every thing thou hast any advantage by, not only thy domestic concerns, but all thy traffic a...
Jeremiah 10:17 Gather H622 (H8798) wares H3666 land H776 inhabitant H3427 (H8802) fortress H4692 thy wares -...
YHWH NOTIFIES JUDAH OF HIS INTENTION TO SLING THEM OUT OF HIS LAND AND PUNISH THEM, AND THEY EXPRESS THEIR GRIEF AS THEY LOOK PROPHETICALLY AT HIS HAVING DONE SO. THE SOUND OF THE INVADERS IS HEARD AN...
Jeremiah 10:1. _Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, concluded. Greatness of the true God. Coming distresses in the land because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Jehovah is the one only living and tr...
Jeremiah 10:2. _Be not dismayed at the signs of heaven;_ at the position of revolving planets on which the augurs found predictions, and discover their ignorance. Be not dismayed at solar eclipses, at...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Section 1–16 has been declared spurious (by De Wette, Movers, and Hitzig), its authenticity disputed, a late interpolation by either the ps...
EXPOSITION Whoever wrote the prophecy in Jeremiah 10:1 of this chapter, it was not Jeremiah; but of course, as the passage forms part of a canonical book, its claims to the character of a Scripture re...
Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven [or the Zodiac]; for the heathen...
Ezekiel 12:3; Jeremiah 21:13; Jeremiah 6:1; Micah 2:10; Matthew 24:15
Gather up — The prophet now enters upon another subject. Thy wares — Every thing thou hast any advantage by, all thy merchandise, as men use to do in case of invasion by an enemy. The fortress — The i...