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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:16

Many fishers] Judah's enemies. The people shall be hunted down with energy wherever they may be found.

19-21. God's power thus shown in the care of His people for evil and then for good, and witnessed by other nations, shall lead even the most distant of them to acknowledge Him.

Jeremiah's Ninth Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiakim?). Punishment of Judah by Pestilence and Exile.

It is clear from Jeremiah 17:15, in which the people challenge the prophet to point to a fulfilment of his prophecies of woe, that it is at any rate earlier than the capture of Jerusalem at the end of Jehoiachin's reign.

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See also Jeremiah 16:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 16:16. _I WILL SEND FOR MANY FISHERS - FOR MANY HUNTERS_] I shall raise up enemies against them some of whom shall destroy them by _wiles_, and others shall ruin them by _violence_. Thi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The scattering of the people is to be like that of hunted animals, of which but few escape, the ancient method of hunting being to enclose a large space with beaters and nets, and so drive everything...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17) CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _ 2. The coming days of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MANY FISHERS... HUNTERS. Reference to Judah's enemies. Compare Jeremiah 16:18; Amos 4:2.Ezekiel 12:13.Habakkuk 1:14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    For the metaphor from fishing cp. Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 29:4 f.; Amos 4:2; Habakkuk 1:14 ff. _rocks_ See on...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    BEHOLD, I WILL SEND FOR MANY FISHERS— It is common with the sacred writers to represent enemies and oppressors under the metaphor of _fishers_ and _hunters,_ because they use all the methods of open f...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Explanation on Behalf of the Prophet Jeremiah 16:14-18 TRANSLATION (14) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no more be said, As the LORD lives who brought us up fr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of t...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WILL SEND FOR MANY FISHERS... — The words refer to the threat, not to the promise. The “fishers,” as in Amos 4:2; Habakkuk 1:15, are the invading nations, surrounding Judah and Jerusalem as with a d...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הִנְנִ֨י שֹׁלֵ֜חַ _לְ_†_דַיָּגִ֥ים_† רַבִּ֛ים נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֖ה...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say, h...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Behold, I will send for many (g) fishermen, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and afterwards will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, an...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Rocks. They shall be found in all their lurking places, Ezechiel xii. 12., and Habacuc i. 4. (Calmet) --- The apostles shall save them. (Origen) --- The Medes and Persians shall grant them liberty; o...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Are not those fishers in allusion to what Christ said of his Apostles, Matthew 4:19. And is not the recompense the Lord is here said to make to their sin, that wound of the spirit, which the Holy Ghos...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Some explain this of the apostles; but it is wholly foreign to the subject: they think that Jeremiah pursues here what he had begun to speak of; for they doubt not but that he had been speaking in the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely br...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BEHOLD, I WILL SEND FOR MANY FISHERS, SAITH THE LORD, AND THEY SHALL FISH THEM,.... Which some understand of the Egyptians, who lived much on fish, and were much employed in catching them, to which th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of th...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Behold, I will send_, &c. This may be better rendered, _But now I will send_, &c. Because here the prophet returns to denounce threatenings; _many fishers, and they shall fish them_ “It is common wit...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, whose nets would enfold large multitudes to take them captive, AND THEY SHALL FISH THEM; AND AFTER WILL I SEND FOR MANY HUNTERS, AND THEY SHALL HU...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Though some interpreters make these words a promise, either of God's restoration of this people, and making use of Cyrus, who, as a _fisherman or huntsman_, by his proclamation fetched the Jews out of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 16:16 send H7971 (H8802) many H7227 fishermen H1771 (H8675) H1728 says H5002 (H8803) LORD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WHAT JEREMIAH IS TO ANSWER ONCE HE HAS GIVEN HIS EXPLANATION AS TO WHY HE IS ABSTAINING FROM MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, FROM ALL FORMS OF MOURNING, AND FROM ALL CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:10). Wit...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming calamities. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the backslider in heart with his...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I will send for many fishers;.. .I will send for many hunters._ FISHERS AND HUNTERS These refer to the successive invaders of Judea. As to “hunters,” see Genesis 10:9. Nimrod, “ the mighty hunter,”...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21. Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16: The word of the LORD came also unto me...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 24:11; 1 Samuel 26:20; Amos 4:2; Amos 5:19; Amos 9:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Fishers — Those enemies whom God made use of to destroy the Jews, hunting them out of all holes and coverts wheresoever they should take sanctuary....

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