Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 16:12
Verse Jeremiah 16:12. And ye have done worse than your fathers] The sins of the fathers would not have been visited on the children, had they not followed their example, and become even worse than they.
Verse Jeremiah 16:12. And ye have done worse than your fathers] The sins of the fathers would not have been visited on the children, had they not followed their example, and become even worse than they.
IMAGINATIONS - Read stubbornness....
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...
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...
IMAGINATION. stubbornness. Reference to Pentateuch, (see notes on Jeremiah 3:17; Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 13:10). App-92....
_stubbornness_ Cp. ch. Jeremiah 3:17....
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...
See introd. summary to section....
B. Instructions for the Prophet Jeremiah 16:10-13 TRANSLATION (10) And it shall come to pass when you declare to this people all these things that they will say unto you: For what reason does the LOR...
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: YE - emphatic; so far from avoiding your father...
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
IMAGINATION] cp. Jeremiah 3:17....
IMAGINATION. — Better, as before, _stubbornness. _...
וְ אַתֶּ֛ם הֲרֵעֹתֶ֥ם לַ עֲשֹׂ֖ות מֵ אֲבֹֽותֵ
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...
_Fathers. Hence you are justly partakers of their punishment, Matthew xxiii. 32. (Calmet) --- A continuance in sin brings on severe punishments; after which, God again shews mercy. (Worthington)_...
There is a wonderful degree of condescension, implied on the part of God in what is here said. Where there is an enquiry seriously set up in the soul, concerning the ways and works of God, in his visi...
I was constrained yesterday to leave unfinished the words of the Prophet. He said that the children were _worse _than their fathers, and gave the reason, _Because they followed the wickedness of their...
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...
AND YE HAVE DONE WORSE THAN YOUR FATHERS,.... Not only committed the same sins, but greater, or, however, attended with more aggravating circumstances; they were wilfully and impudently done, and obst...
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me: Ver. 12. _And ye have done worse._] See Jeremiah 7...
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, in deliberate stubbornness, THAT THEY MAY NOT HEARKEN UNTO ME, or, "that ye hearken no...
REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
IMAGINATION: Or, stubbornness...
10-13 Here seems to be the language of those who quarrel at the word of God, and instead of humbling and condemning themselves, justify themselves, as though God did them wrong. A plain and full answ...
YE in latter ages, in the time of Manasseh, HAVE DONE WORSE THAN YOUR FATHERS DID, and now in the time of Jehoiakim you run on much in the same course of idolatry and superstition, which in this is wo...
Jeremiah 16:12 done H6213 (H8800) worse H7489 (H8689) fathers H1 behold H2009 one H376 follows H1980 ...
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...
JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS IN...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Timothy 3:13; Deuteronomy 29:19; Deuteronomy 9:27;...