Verse Jeremiah 6:23. They shall lay hold on bow and spear] Still pointing out the Chaldeans: or according to Dahler, the Scythians, who had before their invasion of Palestine overrun many parts of Asia, and had spread consternation wherever their name was heard.
SPEAR - Properly, a javelin for hurling at the enemy (see 1 Samuel 17:6 note): an ordinary weapon of the Babylonians. CRUEL - ruthless, inhuman. In the Assyrian monuments warriors put the vanquished t...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _ 2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9) 3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
THE FOE FROM THE NORTH is again described (_cf._ Jeremiah 5:15) in his advance against Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:22). Its inhabitants utter their dismay (wax feeble, Jeremiah 6:24; Heb. are slack). The pr...
ROARETH. will roar. Compare Isaiah 5:29; Isaiah 5:30. Compare Isaiah 5:29. MEN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14...
_set in array, as a man to the battle_ EQUIPPED AS A MAN FOR WAR....
The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
A large part of ch. 50 reads as an expansion of these _vv_....
5. _Description of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:22-26) TRANSLATION (22) Thus said the LORD: Behold, a people is about to come from a north land, a great nation shall be aroused from the uttermost parts of th...
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion....
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
The Assyrian monuments show us rows of impaled victims hanging round the walls of besieged towns, also men collecting in heaps hands cut off from the vanquished enemy....
BOW AND SPEAR. — As before (Jeremiah 5:16), the special weapons of the Chaldæans. The “spear” was a javelin, shot or hurled against the enemy. CRUEL. — The ferocity of the Chaldæans seems to have been...
קֶ֣שֶׁת וְ כִידֹ֞ון יַחֲזִ֗יקוּ אַכְזָרִ֥י הוּא֙...
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
This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
He adds other particulars, in order more fully to render the Chaldeans objects of dread: _They shall lay hold, _he says, _on the bow and the lance _They who render the last word shield, do not suffici...
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...
THEY SHALL LAY HOLD ON BOW AND SPEAR,.... That is, everyone of them should be furnished with both these pieces of armour, that they might be able to fight near and afar off; they had bows to shoot arr...
They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion. V...
_Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people_ I will suffer such things to be laid in their way as shall be the occasion of their destruction. Or, I will bring calamities upon them, by whic...
They shall lay hold on bow and spear, as weapons of offense, of powerful attack; THEY ARE CRUEL AND HAVE NO MERCY, giving no quarter, determined on merciless extinction; THEIR VOICE ROARETH LIKE THE S...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator; but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
OLBHeb; THEY SHALL LAY HOLD ON BOW AND SPEAR; or, They shall _carry_; they shall not want military ammunition of all sorts for the despatch of this great work; synecdochically expressed for all sorts...
Jeremiah 6:23 hold H2388 (H8686) bow H7198 spear H3591 cruel H394 mercy H7355 (H8762) voice H6963 roars...
IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given the reas...
YHWH NOW DESCRIBES THE TOTAL INTRANSIGENCE OF HIS PEOPLE AND DISMISSES THEIR ATTEMPTS TO PACIFY HIM BY RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND OFFERINGS, CONFIRMING TO THEM THE JUDGMENT THAT IS INEVITABLY COMING ON THEM...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that should come because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking people,...
Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_ [of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem, ac...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:22 GREAT NATION. Babylon. THE FARTHEST PARTS OF THE EARTH. Babylon’s army had outposts all over the ancient world. This army has NO MERCY. Its...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small town of defenc...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. JEREMIAH 6:1 Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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...
Ezekiel 23:22; Habakkuk 1:6; Isaiah 13:18; Isaiah 19:4; Isaiah 5:26