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CHAPTER 13
Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations
_ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _
2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15)
3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremi
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THE SYMBOL OF THE WAIST-CLOTH, its removal signifying the rejection
and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet
buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as a...
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IT WAS. Some codices, with one early printed edition, read "and it
was"....
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Jeremiah 13:1-11. The acted symbol of the linen girdle
This ch. consists of five sections, quite independent of one another.
The first two are in poetic prose, and the remaining in Ḳinah metre.
Three...
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VI. THE PRIDE OF THE NATION Jeremiah 13:1-27
Arrogant, willful, stubborn pride was at the root of all Judah's sins.
In chapter thirteen Jeremiah issues five stern warnings concerning
pride and its con...
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_THEN I WENT TO EUPHRATES, AND DIGGED, AND TOOK THE GIRDLE FROM THE
PLACE WHERE I HAD HID IT: AND, BEHOLD, THE GIRDLE WAS MARRED, IT WAS
PROFITABLE FOR NOTHING._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THESE VERSES....
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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,...
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THE GIRDLE WAS MARRED. — The symbolism is explained in Jeremiah
13:9. The girdle stained, decayed, worthless, was a parable of the
state of Judah after the exile, stripped of all its outward greatness...
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וָ אֵלֵ֣ךְ פְּרָ֔תָה וָ אֶחְפֹּ֗ר וָֽ
אֶקַּח֙
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CHAPTER VIII
THE FALL OF PRIDE
Jeremiah 13:1
THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated
by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah
unto me," witho...
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20-25, THE PARABLE OF THE GIRDLE
Jeremiah 13:1-11
This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some
such striking symbol before them the attention _of the people_ must
have been pow...
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The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah
ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself
and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the g...
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Jeremiah spared no pains, and thought nothing of his trouble to follow
up the Lord's commissions. Euphrates was no small distance from
Jerusalem: but yet we find thither the Prophet went both to carry...
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The Prophet, by saying that he went to the Euphrates, confirms what he
had narrated: he did not indeed mean that he actually went there, but
his object was to give the Jews a vivid representation. It...
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Chapter 13, bringing to mind how God had bound Israel to His heart,
announces the terrible judgment with which the people shall, as it
were, be drunken; and, on the ground of this judgment, calls them...
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THEN I WENT TO EUPHRATES,.... In a vision; this is the second journey,
of which Jeremiah 13:5,
AND DIGGED; the hole, in process of time, being stopped up with soil
or sand, that were thrown up over i...
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Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the
place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was
profitable for nothing.
Ver. 7. _Then I went to Euphrates._] Se...
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Then I went to Euphrates, making the long journey a second time, to
bring out its significance with greater emphasis, AND DIGGED, opening
up the cleft in the rock, AND TOOK THE GIRDLE FROM THE PLACE W...
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THE SYMBOL OF THE GIRDLE...
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1-11 It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs. And we have
the explanation, ver. Jeremiah 13:9. The people of Israel had been to
God as this girdle. He caused them to cleave to him by the law...
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Whether the prophet really made such a journey, or all this was but a
vision, is very uncertain. When he came to the place, or in his
vision, he thought, when he came to the place, that he saw all the...
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Jeremiah 13:7 went H3212 (H8799) Euphrates H6578 dug H2658 (H8799)
took H3947 (H8799) sash H232 place...
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THE ACTED OUT PROPHECY OF THE LINEN GIRDLE (JEREMIAH 13:1).
YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people
by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is initially to...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the linen girdle and sign of the bottles filled with
wine.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who persist in sin, ignoring God's Word, make
themselves vessels of wrath fi...
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Jeremiah 13:1. _Get thee a linen girdle,_ or “buy thee,” as the
Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it
became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The priest...
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_Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the
place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was
profitable for nothing._
THE CAST-OFF GIRDLE
In many instances...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 13:2 God orders Jeremiah to place
underclothing in a rocky place. Of course, it gets ruined by the
weather.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. The
reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as
determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler,
Hend.,...
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EXPOSITION
The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely
commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching
rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal...
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Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go down and buy a linen girdle, and put
it on, but don't wash it. So I got a girdle according to the word of
the LORD, and I put it on. And the word of the LORD came unto...
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Ezekiel 15:3; Isaiah 64:6; Jeremiah 13:10; Jeremiah 24:1; Luke 14:34