Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 6:3
Verse Jeremiah 6:3. The shepherds with their flocks] The chiefs and their battalions. The invading army is about to spoil and waste all the fertile fields round about the city, while engaged in the siege.
Verse Jeremiah 6:3. The shepherds with their flocks] The chiefs and their battalions. The invading army is about to spoil and waste all the fertile fields round about the city, while engaged in the siege.
To it shall come “shepherds with their flocks:” They have pitched upon it “their tents round about:” They have pastured each his hand, “i. e., side.” The pasture is so abundant that each feeds his...
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 SIEGE OF THE SINFUL CITY. The prophet bids his kinsfolk (Anathoth, his birthplace, being in Benjamin) to abandon the capital, and to gather in the southern mountains; the northern peril is now nea...
SHEPHERDS: i.e. the Chaldean armies. See Jeremiah 3:15,...
For shepherds in the sense of leaders, rulers cp. chs. Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 3:15. _every one in his place_ The Heb. is lit. _each his hand_. They shall not need to encroach upon one another, findin...
D. Approach of Judgment Jeremiah 6:1-30 Chapter 6 contains a dramatic description of the advance of the foe against Jerusalem (Jeremiah 6:1-5) and the subsequent siege of that city (Jeremiah 6:6-8). T...
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. SHEPHERDS - hostile leaders with their armies (; ;...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
A figure of the devastating enemy. Flocks eating the herbage on every side are a figure to express dévastation. 4, 5. The invaders propose a determined and continuous attack....
SHALL COME UNTO HER. — Better, _Unto it_ (_sc_., the pasture) _shall come shepherds with their flocks_ — _i.e.,_ the leaders and the armies of the invaders. The other verbs are in the past tense, the...
אֵלֶ֛יהָ יָבֹ֥אוּ רֹעִ֖ים וְ עֶדְרֵיהֶ֑ם תָּקְע֨וּ...
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 shepherds with their flocks (e) shall come to her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her on every side; they shall feed every one in his place. (e) She will be so destroyed that the sheep ma...
_Shepherds. So captains are styled, because they feed and govern soldiers. (Worthington)_...
I venture to think, that if we read these verses with an eye to the Church in Jesus, they will be found very interesting. Who is the speaker here, that likens Zion to a comely and delicate woman? May...
But he afterwards adds, _Come shall shepherds_, _etc_. ; that is, there is no ground for the Jews to deceive themselves, because God has hitherto spared them, and restrained the assaults of enemies; f...
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...
THE SHEPHERDS WITH THEIR FLOCKS SHALL COME UNTO HER,.... Kings and their armies, as the Targum paraphrases it; kings and generals are compared to shepherds, and their armies to flocks, who are under t...
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch [their] tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place. Ver. 3. _The shepherds._] See on Jeremiah 6:2 ....
_I have likened_, &c. There being nothing for _woman_ in the Hebrew text, and the word נוה, here rendered _comely_, frequently signifying a _pasture_, a _sheep-fold_, and _a habitation_, the verse is...
The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her, the hostile armies under their cruel generals; THEY SHALL PITCH THEIR TENTS AGAINST HER ROUND ABOUT; THEY SHALL FEED EVERY ONE IN HIS PLACE, ruthle...
THE ADVICE TO FLEE FROM JERUSALEM...
1-8 Whatever methods are used, it is vain to contend with God's judgments. The more we indulge in the pleasures of this life, the more we unfit ourselves for the troubles of this life. The Chaldean a...
THE SHEPHERDS WITH THEIR FLOCKS SHALL COME UNTO HER: the prophet here proceeds in his metaphor, and possibly the rather, because he chooseth to speak in the style of his own education, which may also...
Jeremiah 6:3 shepherds H7462 (H8802) flocks H5739 come H935 (H8799) pitch H8628 (H8804) tents H168 around...
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...
HIS PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE FOR ACTION BECAUSE THE INVASION IS UPON THEM (JEREMIAH 6:1). As the enemy approached from the north the tribe of Benjamin (his own tribe), who were to the north of Jerusalem,...
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...
_Arise, and let us go up at noon._ CHRISTIAN EFFORT That spirit-stirring call of the text, so needful to arouse the Chaldeans on their march to the ancient, is as needful for us on our pilgrimage to...
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...
2 Kings 24:10; 2 Kings 24:2; 2 Kings 25:1; Jeremiah 39:1; Jere
The shepherds — The Chaldean princes, with their armies, as so many flocks, shall come into this pleasant land. In his place — Each one in his quarter or station....