Be not afraid. — The words imply, as in those spoken to Ezekiel (Ezekiel 2:6), to St. Peter (Luke 5:10), and St. Paul (Acts 18:9), the fear that sprang from the sense of personal weakness and unfitness to cope with the dangers to which his work exposed him. The “faces” of his adversaries would be a source of terror to him. The consciousness that Jehovah was with him was to raise him from that timidity.
Verse Jeremiah 1:8. _BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES_] That is, the _Jews_, whom he knew would persecute him because of the message which he brought. To be _fore_-warned is to be half armed. He knew what...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 1 The Call of the Prophet _ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _ 2. The divin...
THE PROPHET'S CALL. The account of this should be compared with similar accounts of the calls of other prophets (see Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 1:1 to Ezekiel 3:3; Amos 7:12 ff.) and the characteristic differe...
BE NOT AFRAID, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 3:12; Deuteronomy 31:6). App-92. Compare Ezekiel (Ezekiel 2:6); Paul (Acts 26:17). saith
_Be not afraid_ Jeremiah had pleaded his youth, but, as the Lord saw, another cause for his shrinking from the task was his natural timidity....
Jeremiah's call The passage will fall into four sections. (i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah 1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful to p...
The Prophet's call and its nature...
C. The Divine Assurance Jeremiah 1:7-10 When called of God Moses brought forth excuse after excuse; but Jeremiah only needed encouragement and reassurance. The Lord took steps to give that timid and...
II. THE CALL EXTENDED Jeremiah 1:4-10 TRANSLATION (4) Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying, (5) Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart; a proph...
Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. BE NOT AFRAID - (, "Be not afraid of their words, nor dismayed at their looks"). I AM WITH THEE - (; , "As I was...
1:8 saith (c-14) See Note a, Isaiah 1:24 ....
THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....
אַל ־תִּירָ֖א מִ פְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּֽי ־אִתְּךָ֥ א
CHAPTER I THE CALL AND CONSECRATION IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more detailed study of his writin...
COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER Jeremiah 1:1-19 God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...
The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry. The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...
Reader! do not fail to remark, how humbling grace is in the soul. Before the Prophet was conscious of the work wrought in him, the blessed effects were made to appear, in a lowliness suited to the mer...
We may learn from this verse that Jeremiah, when he observed the heavy and hard conflicts he had to undertake, was greatly disturbed; for he had not courage enough firmly and boldly to assail enemies...
In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...
BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES,.... Their stern looks, their frowning brows, and angry countenances, which would threaten him with destruction and death: FOR I AM WITH THEE, TO DELIVER THEE, SAITH THE...
Be not afraid of their faces: for I [am] with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD. Ver. 8. _Be not afraid of their faces._] Look they never so big, as did Henry VIII upon Latimer and upon Lambert, w...
_But the Lord said unto me_, &c. God refuses to accept of his excuse, and renews his commission to him to execute the prophetic office. Thus God refused to accept the excuse of Moses, made on a like o...
THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
Be not afraid of their faces, in an excess of awe which would interfere with the effectiveness of his message; FOR I AM WITH THEE TO DELIVER THEE, SAITH THE LORD. He thus imparted the necessary courag...
1-10 Jeremiah's early call to the work and office of a prophet is stated. He was to be a prophet, not to the Jews only, but to the neighbouring nations. He is still a prophet to the whole world, and...
BE NOT AFRAID OF THEIR FACES; their fierce looks, EZEKIEL 3:9, the indication of their enraged minds, DANIEL 3:19; neither when thou deliverest my message to them, nor when thou mayst be cited before...
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JEREMIAH'S INITIAL CALL (JEREMIAH 1:4). YHWH's initial call assures Jeremiah that he had been chosen even before he was born, that he need not be afraid that he was still young and immature (around t...
JEREMIAH SEEKS TO EXCUSE HIMSELF FROM HIS GOD-APPOINTED TASK ONLY TO BE SET RIGHT BY YHWH (JEREMIAH 1:7). Jeremiah diffidently sought to excuse himself from the task to which God was calling him, seei...
Jeremiah 1:8 The prophets were ever ungratefully treated by the Israelites; they were resisted, their warnings neglected, their good services forgotten. But there was this difference between the earli...
Jeremiah 1:6 It is not improbable that Jeremiah was almost a child when he spoke these words. Considering the time to which he lived, he must have been young in the thirteenth year of Josiah, young en...
Jeremiah 1:1 I. (Jeremiah 1:4). The two great blessings of _election_and _mediation_are here distinctly taught. God did not speak to the nations directly, but mediationally. He created a minister who...
Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod and seething pot. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim. CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...
Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature, whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...
_Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ Seven points in Jeremiah’s life and call:-- 1. God knowing him. “I knew thee.” 2. God sanctifying him. “I sanctified thee.” 3. God ordaining him. “...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s call and message (vv....
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:8 Jeremiah can fear either God (Proverbs 1:7) or men. He need not fear men, for God will DELIVER him, though the mention of deliverance means Jeremi
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4, _sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would make the date of the “thirteen...
EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...
At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah. About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...
2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Timothy 4:17; 2 Timothy 4:18; Acts 18:10;...
JEREMIAH, THE WAILING PROPHET Jeremiah 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The ten tribes of Israel had passed into captivity before God called Jeremiah. Judah was following hard in the path of her sister natio...