GO, etc.] It is doubtful whether this and the subsequent acts of the prophet were real or done only in symbol. As, however, Jeremiah appears to have been absent from Jerusalem during the most of the latter years of Jehoiachin, he may well be supposed during part of that time to have been in or near... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH'S SEVENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIACHIN). THE LINEN GIRDLE The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' (Jeremiah 13:18), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehushta, mother of Jehoiachin. The queen-mother had always a high position, and in Jehoiachin's case this wo... [ Continue Reading ]
IMAGINATION] RV 'stubbornness.' 12-14. The symbol of the bottles. Under the figure of intoxication, through which the people shall be helpless to resist the enemy's attack, the prophet intimates God's punishment for headstrong continuance in sin: cp. Jeremiah 25:15 and for Israel under the figure o... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE GLORY] a Hebrew idiom, meaning, confess your sins: cp. Joshua 7:19; John 9:24. Danger, difficulty, and gloom are near.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN SECRET PLACES] The prophet will mourn apart, as he did in Jehoiakim's reign.... [ Continue Reading ]
See note at head of chapter The kings practised polygamy; hence the high position taken by the queen-mother: cp. 1 Kings 15:13; 2 Kings 10:13. PRINCIPALITIES] RV 'headtires,' diadems.... [ Continue Reading ]
CITIES OF THE SOUTH] i.e. of Judah. SHALL BE] RV 'are.' SHUT UP] i.e. besieged, blockaded, by the Chaldeans.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NORTH] see on Jeremiah 1:13. WHERE _is_ THE FLOCK?] Where are the towns that once lay, like a fair flock of sheep, grouped around thee?... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'What wilt thou say when he shall set thy friends over thee as head, seeing thou thyself hast instructed them against thee?' The reference is to Egypt and Babylon, the friendship and guidance of which countries Judah had alternatively courted, and thus was but preparing the way for subjection to... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE BARE] and thus subject to the roughness of the road as thou art led captive.... [ Continue Reading ]
They are incapable of repentance.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WIND OF THE WILDERNESS] see on Jeremiah 4:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THY MEASURES] RV 'measured unto thee.' FALSEHOOD] i.e. idolatry: cp. Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 16:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE CLEAN] i.e. from infidelity and idolatry. WHEN _shall it_ ONCE _be?_] RV 'How long shall it yet be?'... [ Continue Reading ]