Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 8:17
Verse Jeremiah 8:17. I will send serpents] These were symbols of the enemies that were coming against them; a foe that would rather slay them and destroy the land than get booty and ransom.
Verse Jeremiah 8:17. I will send serpents] These were symbols of the enemies that were coming against them; a foe that would rather slay them and destroy the land than get booty and ransom.
I WILL SEND - Or, am sending. No prophet changes his metaphors so suddenly as Jeremiah. The invading army is now compared to snakes, whom no charming can soothe, and whose bite is fatal. Compare Numbe...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _ 2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4) 3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13) 4. The prophet's lamentation ...
JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...
COCKATRICES. adders. WILL NOT BE CHARMED. This shows that the People were not penitent, and verses: Jeremiah 8:8; Jeremiah 8:14; Jeremiah 8:16 are not their words....
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of sin The section may be thus summarized. (i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to change, but Israel...
See summary at commencement of section....
_basilisks_ better (mg.) _adders_, for the basilisk was only fabulous. The creature here meant cannot be identified with certainty. See conjectures in Dr., pp. 351 f. No art of the charmer will avail...
BEHOLD, I WILL SEND SERPENTS— Under the idea of beasts and venomous creatures are represented inexorable enemies: see chap. Jeremiah 5:6. Psalms 58:4 and Calmet. That some persons possessed the facult...
C. Unavoidable Punishment at the Hand of God Jeremiah 8:13-17 TRANSLATION (13) I will utterly consume them (oracle of the LORD). No grapes are on the vine and no figs are on the fig tree. The leaves...
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. I - Yahweh. COCKATRICES - basilisks (), i:e., enemies whose destruct...
1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
COCKATRICES] RV 'basilisks,' RM 'adders': Jeremiah may have chosen the word because of its resemblance in sound in the Hebrew to the word _northern,_ the invaders coming from that quarter. CHARMED] so...
SERPENTS, COCKATRICES. — There is a sudden change of figure, one new image of terror starting from the history of the fiery serpents of Numbers 21:6, or, possibly, from the connection of Dan with the...
כִּי֩ הִנְנִ֨י מְשַׁלֵּ֜חַ בָּכֶ֗ם נְחָשִׁים֙ צִפְעֹנִ֔ים...
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the fight, so were the people set...
Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
For, behold, I will (m) send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. (m) God threatens to send the Babylonians among them who will ut...
_Charm. The Chaldeans will not be moved to pity (Menochius) by any words. (Worthington)_...
I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
He increases their terror by another comparison, — that not only enemies would violently attack them, but that their bitings would be venomous. He had spoken of horses, and mentioned their violent ons...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
FOR, BEHOLD, I WILL SEND SERPENTS, COCKATRICES, AMONG YOU,.... The Chaldeans, comparable to these noxious and hurtful creatures, because of the mischief they should do unto them. The Targum is, "for,...
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. Ver. 17. _Behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices,_] _i.e., _ Chal...
_For behold, I send serpents, &c., which shall not be charmed_ Such enemies as you shall not be able to soften by any entreaties you can use. That some persons possessed the faculty of rendering serpe...
FURTHER DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPENDING PUNISHMENT...
For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, reptiles of a most poisonous kind, WHICH WILL NOT BE CHARMED, rendered harmless by soothing music, AND THEY SHALL BITE YOU, SAITH THE LORD. T...
14-22 At length they begin to see the hand of God lifted up. And when God appears against us, every thing that is against us appears formidable. As salvation only can be found in the Lord, so the pre...
He proceeds in increasing of their terror: q.d. There will be no appeasing or allaying of their fury by any art or method; therefore represented by the cockatrice, called in Latin _regulus_, or king o...
Jeremiah 8:17 send H7971 (H8764) serpents H5175 Vipers H6848 charmed H3908 bite H5391 (H8765) says H5002 ...
JEREMIAH CALLS ON THE PEOPLE TO ENTER THEIR FORTIFIED CITIES BECAUSE THE INVADERS ARE COMING AND THERE WILL BE NO PEACE TERMS ACCEPTED OR HEALING OF THEIR REBELLION, FOR YHWH IS SENDING AMONG THEM SER...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments impending. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of man cannot serve to k...
Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
_I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you._ PENALTY There are countries that are desolated by animals; there have been harvests eaten by locusts; there have been vineyards stripped by insects; th...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 8:1 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. JEREMIAH 8:1 THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unbur...
At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inha...
Amos 5:19; Amos 9:3; Deuteronomy 32:24; Ecclesiastes 10:11; Isaiah
Shall bite — There will be no appeasing their fury by any method....