Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Jeremiah 5:16
An open sepulchre. — Every arrow in the quivers of the Chaldæan bowmen was to be as a messenger of death, a blast or pestilence from the grave.
An open sepulchre. — Every arrow in the quivers of the Chaldæan bowmen was to be as a messenger of death, a blast or pestilence from the grave.
Verse Jeremiah 5:16. _THEIR QUIVER_ IS _AN OPEN SEPULCHRE_] They are such exact archers as never to miss their mark; every arrow is sure to slay one man....
THEIR QUIVER - See Jeremiah 4:29, note....
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The apostate conditions of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 5:1) _ 2. The impending judgment (Jeremiah 5:10) 3. Sowing and reaping (Jeremiah 5:19) 4. The horrible thing ...
THE COMING OF THE FOE. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyard of Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejecting His warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejected...
See summary at beginning of section....
_Their quiver is an open sepulchre_ Their arrows are deadly. Cp. Psalms 5:9. _Their quiver_ Cp. Jeremiah 4:29 ("bowmen")....
3. _Treacherous unbelief_ (Jeremiah 5:10-18) TRANSLATION (10) Go up against her rows and destroy, but do not make a full end; Remove her shoots for they do not belong to the LORD. (11) For the house...
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. OPEN SEPULCHRE - (cf. ). Their quiver is all-devouring, as the grave opened to receive the dead: as many as are the arrows, so many a...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness....
_Is_ AS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE] for it is filled with missiles dealing death....
אַשְׁפָּתֹ֖ו כְּ קֶ֣בֶר פָּת֑וּחַ כֻּלָּ֖ם גִּבֹּורִֽים׃...
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
Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie foun...
Their quiver [is] as an (p) open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men. (p) Who will kill many with their arrows....
Reader! do as the Psalmist did, after reading these verses, and say, I will sing of mercy and judgment. And let your song as his was, be dedicated to the Lord: for to the Lord alone the praise and glo...
The Prophet had already threatened the Jews with the vengeance of God, and had said that the ministers and executioners of it would be the Chaldeans: he now continues the same subject, and says that t...
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...
THEIR QUIVER IS AN OPEN SEPULCHRE,.... The Chaldeans used bows and arrows in fighting; and the quiver is a case for arrows; and the phrase denotes, that their arrows would do great execution, and be v...
Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men. Ver. 16. _Their quiver is an open sepulchre._] As holding arrows that wound deadly, and that shall despatch many, being drenched in...
_Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts_ The prophet now, in the name of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels, ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calculat...
FAITHLESSNESS AND TREACHERY...
Their quiver is as an open sepulcher, on account of the death-dealing arrows which it contained, THEY ARE ALL MIGHTY MEN, distinguished for their strength and bravery....
10-18 Multitudes are ruined by believing that God will not be so strict as his word says he will; by this artifice Satan undid mankind. Sinners are not willing to own any thing to be God's word, that...
QUIVER; collectively expressed for quivers; a synecdoche for the whole military preparations, and a metonymy of the containing for the contained, viz. the arrows that will be shot out of them, called...
Jeremiah 5:16 quiver H827 open H6605 (H8803) tomb H6913 men H1368 Psalms 5:9;...
YHWH CALLS ON HIS CHAMPION, WHOSE GREAT MIGHT HE MAKES CLEAR, IN ORDER THAT HIS FORCES MIGHT DENUDE JUDAH BECAUSE OF THEIR TREACHERY TOWARDS HIM (JEREMIAH 5:10). The instrument of YHWH's judgment is c...
YHWH PRESENTS THE REASONS WHY THE INVASION IS NECESSARY (JEREMIAH 5:1). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both spiritual...
Jeremiah 5:10. _Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very tre...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. God's charges against them and the judgments threatened. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Sinners have reason to expect punishment on account of...
Jeremiah 5:2. _Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely._ These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his perf...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s times;...
EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate its people into ruin? There are four well-marked...
Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
Isaiah 5:28; Psalms 5:9; Romans 3:13...