(10-12) Every one from the least... — The prophet reproduces, though not verbally, what he had already said in Jeremiah 6:12. (Comp. Notes there.) It is as though that emphatic condemnation of the sins of the false teachers were burnt into his soul, and could not but find utterance whenever he addressed the people.
Verse Jeremiah 8:10. _THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES_] From this to the end of Jeremiah 8:15 is repeated from Jeremiah 6:13....
These verses are almost identical with Jeremiah 6:12. Jeremiah 8:10 TO THEM THAT SHALL INHERIT THEM - Rather, “to those that shall take possession of them, i. e., “to conquerors who shall take them...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...
JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...
GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:30). App-92. INHERIT. seize; or, to their dispossessors. FROM. Some codices, with two early printed editions, and Syriac, read ...
See summary at commencement of section. These verses are omitted by LXX and are almost identical with ch. Jeremiah 6:12-15 above. See notes there....
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
B. Unwise Proclamations by National Leaders Jeremiah 8:8-12 TRANSLATION (8) How can you say, We are wise! The Torah of the LORD is with us. But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has labored false...
_THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS, AND THEIR FIELDS TO THEM THAT SHALL INHERIT THEM: FOR EVERY ONE FROM THE LEAST EVEN UNTO THE GREATEST IS GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS, FROM THE PROPHET EVEN UN...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
SHALL INHERIT _them_] shall take possession of them. The idea is forcible seizure by the invader....
לָכֵן֩ אֶתֵּ֨ן אֶת ־נְשֵׁיהֶ֜ם לַ אֲחֵרִ֗ים ש
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
FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
_Others. Idumeans, &c. Yet most part of the land remained uncultivated. (Calmet) --- The rest, to ver. 13., "they will collect their fruits, says," &c., is supplied by Grabe. (Haydock)_...
I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
GOD here threatens punishment, because he found that he effected nothing, and that he had to do with an obstinate people, having before tried whether they were reclaimable. Having seen that exhortatio...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS,.... To strangers, to the Gentiles; than which nothing could be more disagreeable to them, or a sorer punishment, of a temporal one: AND THEIR FIELDS TO...
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their fields to them that shall inherit [them]: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even...
_Therefore will I give their wives unto others_ See on Jeremiah 6:12; _and their fields to them, that shall inherit_, or _possess, them_ For the word _inherit_ is sometimes taken for any sort of posse...
THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...
Therefore, on account of the wickedness thus shown by the false teachers, WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS AND THEIR FIELDS TO THEM THAT SHALL INHERIT THEM; FOR EVERY ONE, FROM THE LEAST EVEN UNTO...
4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that le...
THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS, AND THEIR FIELDS TO THEM THAT SHALL INHERIT THEM; a paraphrastical description of the miseries of war: God doth here insinuate that their misery shall no...
Jeremiah 8:10 give H5414 (H8799) wives H802 others H312 fields H7704 inherit H3423 (H8802) least H6996 greatest...
YHWH EXPRESSES AMAZEMENT AT THE UNWILLINGNESS OF HIS PEOPLE TO RETURN TO HIM, AND THEIR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HIS REQUIREMENTS, AND WARNS THEM THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING (JEREMIA...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...
2 Peter 2:1; Amos 5:11; Deuteronomy 28:30; Ezekiel 22:27; Ezekie