Verse Jeremiah 46:7. Who is this that cometh up as a flood] The vast concourse of people is here represented as a river: for instance, the Jordan, suddenly swollen with the rains in harvest, rolling its waters along, and overflowing the whole country. A fine image to represent the incursions of vast armies carrying all before them. Such was the army of Pharaoh-necho in its march to Carchemish.
In Jeremiah 46:3 we saw only a mighty army marshalling for battle, and its hasty flight. In Jeremiah 46:7 the prophet tells us at whose defeat we have been present. A FLOOD - the Nile. The metaphor de...
IV. THE PROPHECIES CONCERNING THE GENTILE NATIONS CHAPTER 46 Concerning Egypt _ 1. Prophecy about Pharaoh-Necho (Jeremiah 46:1) _ 2. Nebuchadnezzar's invasion of Egypt (Jeremiah 46:13) 3. A messa...
JEREMIAH 46-51. THE FOREIGN PROPHECIES. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen (Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah's prophetic horizon nat...
AS. FLOOD. = as the river: i.e. the Nile, in flood....
Oracles against foreign nations Many recent commentators, in particular Schwally (Stade's _Zeitschrift für Alttestamentl. Wissenschaft_for 1888), maintain that the whole or a considerable part of the...
Co. declines to accept objections which have been brought by some recent commentators to the substantial genuineness of these _vv_., and Gi. on the whole agrees, but considers the passage to have been...
_Who is this … Egypt riseth up like the Nile_ The mg. is to be preferred. Egypt's boast that she will spread herself in conquest over the earth is illustrated by the annual rise of the Nile, flooding...
WHO IS THIS, &C.— The prophet speaks of Necho, and represents the grand preparations which he made to go to the succour of Carchemish. He flattered himself that nothing was capable of resisting the fo...
B. The Second Picture of Egyptian Defeat Jeremiah 46:7-12 TRANSLATION (7) Who is this that goes up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the river? (8) Egypt goes up like the Nile and his...
Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH UP AS A FLOOD - (; Isaiah 8:7; ). The figure is appropriate in addressing Egyptians,...
A FLOOD] RV 'the Nile,'their own sacred river in its annual overflow. So in Jeremiah 46:8....
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
WHO IS THIS THAT COMETH UP AS A FLOOD?... — The Hebrew word for “flood” is used as a proper name almost exclusively (Daniel 12:5 being the only exception) for the Nile (_e.g.,_ Genesis 41:1; Exodus 2:...
מִי ־זֶ֖ה כַּ † יְאֹ֣ר יַֽעֲלֶ֑ה כַּ...
CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8, Jeremiah 44:30, Jeremiah 46:1 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trust in him....
The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consists...
Who [is] this [that] cometh up as (f) a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? (f) He derides the boastings of the Egyptians, who thought by their riches and power to have overcome all the worl...
_Rivers. He alludes to the Nile. The king of Egypt had a numerous army._...
At this Chapter begins the judgments of God against the enemies of Israel. The Lord hath had a long controversy with his people; but now in the midst of it, he will reckon with their foes. And first f...
The Prophet again meets those doubts which might have possessed the minds of the godly, so as to prevent them to receive this prophecy in faith and with due reverence: for we have said, that when our...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
WHO [IS] THIS [THAT] COMETH UP AS A FLOOD,.... These are either the words of the prophet, who having a vision in prophecy of the march of the Egyptian army from the south to the north, which he compar...
Who [is] this [that] cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? Ver. 7. _Who is this that cometh up like a flood?_] Pharaoh with his forces is here notably described, _vivo sermonum...
_Who is this that cometh up as a flood_ Here the king of Egypt is compared to a mighty river, the Nile, or the Euphrates, when it swells above its banks, and threatens to overwhelm the country with ru...
Who is this that cometh up as a flood, like the Nile overflowing its banks, WHOSE WATERS ARE MOVED AS THE RIVERS? surging to and fro with irresistible force....
THE FIRST PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
1-12 The whole word of God is against those who obey not the gospel of Christ; but it is for those, even of the Gentiles, who turn to Him. The prophecy begins with Egypt. Let them strengthen themselve...
The next verse expoundeth this....
Jeremiah 46:7 up H5927 (H8799) flood H2975 waters H4325 move H1607 (H8691) rivers H5104 Who -...
A). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S DEFEAT OF THE EGYPTIAN ARMY AT CARCHEMISH IN 605 BC (JEREMIAH 46:2). The importance of this prophesy to a people reeling under the unexpected death of their good...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Pharaoh-Necho, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: When men think to magnify themselves by pushing on unrighteous enterprises, let them expect...
Jeremiah 46:1. _The Gentiles._ The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jeremiah 4...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 46:1 God’s Judgment on the Nations. Jeremiah has already declared God’s sovereignty over the nations (Jeremiah 27:1). Here he describes God
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—_FIRST PART:_ Jeremiah 46:1, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written _at Jerusalem,_ immediately before the battle of Charchemish. This se...
EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2 are clearly inc...
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28. Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of miscellaneous prophec...
Amos 8:8; Daniel 11:22; Daniel 9:26; Isaiah 63:1; Isaiah 8:7;...