But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire (h) in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it.
(h) That is, in the houses of it, which stood as thick as trees in the forest.
Verse Jeremiah 21:14. _I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE FOREST THEREOF_] I will send destruction into its _centre_, that shall spread to every part of the _circumference_, and so consume the whole. The b...
THE FOREST - This suggested to the Jew the idea of everything grand and stately....
CHAPTER 21 The Prophetic Warning _ 1. Zedekiah's inquiry (Jeremiah 21:1) _ 2. Jehovah's answer through Jeremiah (Jeremiah 21:3) Jeremiah 21:1. It has been said that this chapter is historical
KINDLE. FIRE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:22). App-92. THE FOREST THEREOF. her forest. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the timber from Lebanon used in the bu...
See introd. note to section. The fragment is a very obscure one. It may be connected with Jeremiah 22:8 f. It was evidently held by the compiler who placed it here to refer to Jerusalem. But that city...
_and I will kindle, etc_.] Cp. on Jeremiah 17:27. _in her forest_ i.e. Jerusalem, which is likened to a forest about to be wholly consumed by fire. For the same figure, representing in that case the p...
4. _The alternatives for the royal house_ (Jeremiah 21:11-14) TRANSLATION (11) And to the house of the king of Judah: Hear the word of the LORD! O house of David, thus says the LORD: Judge with justi...
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. I WILL PUNISH YOU ACCORD...
11-14. Exhortation and warning to the royal house....
THE FOREST] referring to the houses of Jerusalem clustered together, or perhaps to the house of the forest of Lebanon (1 Kings 7:2). JEREMIAH'S THIRTEENTH PROPHECY A collection of short prophecies h...
I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE FOREST THEREOF. — The “forest” thus referred to may be either literally the woods, then covering a larger surface than in later times, at Kirjath-jearim (Psalms 132:6; 1 Sa...
וּ פָקַדְתִּ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם כִּ פְרִ֥י מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם...
The final series before the fall of Jerusalem consists of messages delivered to Zedekiah (21-27). The occasion of these was, in the first place, Zedekiah's deputation to the prophet. The scourge which...
_Doings. Hebrew, "studies." So "Your studious pursuits" occurs, ver. 12, in many Hebrew manuscripts, though the printed copy have, "their;" and "spoiled" for apprised. (Kennicott) --- Forest, the temp...
It was the glory of Jerusalem, and for which the Prophet boasted, that she should be a quiet habitation, whose tabernacle should not be taken down, nor one of her stakes removed. But this was because...
REFLECTIONS READER! let you and I learn from the perusal of this Chapter; how needful it must be in times of trouble to have first learnt, and to have known the Lord in times of safety. What a sad sta...
But God, on the contrary, says, _Behold I will _come _to thee, _or_against thee, _and _will visit _thee. There is, indeed, a change of number; for he says, _I will visit you, _for he had begun by sayi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
BUT I WILL PUNISH YOU ACCORDING TO THE FRUIT OF YOUR DOINGS, SAITH THE LORD,.... The situation of their city, and the strength of its fortifications, however sufficient they might be thought to keep...
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. Ver. 14. _But I will punish...
_Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain_ A description of Jerusalem, which was built in part upon the rocky mountain of Zion, but a great part of it was in the va...
A MESSAGE TO JUDAH AND ITS KING...
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord, in agreement with her wicked deeds; AND I WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN THE FOREST THEREOF, AND IT SHALL DEVOUR ALL THINGS ROUND AB...
PUNISH: _ Heb._ visit upon...
11-14 The wickedness of the king and his family was the worse because of their relation to David. They were urged to act with justice, at once, lest the Lord's anger should be unquenchable. If God be...
I WILL PUNISH YOU; in the Hebrew it is, _I will visit upon you_. God's visitations are either of _mercy_, PSALMS 80:14, PSALMS 106:4, or of _judgment_; therefore the sense is here rightly given by our...
Jeremiah 21:14 punish H6485 (H8804) fruit H6529 doings H4611 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 kindle H3341 ...
A GENERAL PLEA TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID NOT TO BE PRESUMPTIOUS BUT TO EXERCISE JUSTICE AND MERCY IF THEY WOULD ESCAPE JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 21:11). Jeremiah now makes a general plea to ‘the house of David'...
CONTENTS: Message to King Zedekiah. Babylonian captivity foretold. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Pashur, Zephaniah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: If God be for us, none can be against us, but i...
Jeremiah 21:1. _Pashur the son of Melchiah,_ a different person from the Pashur named in the preseding chapter, who was son of Immer. Jeremiah 21:8. _I set before you the way of life, and the way of d...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 21:1 Jeremiah’s Confrontations. Having solidified his relationship with God, Jeremiah confronts his enemies and their beliefs. He opposes kings ...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 21:14 FRUIT OF YOUR DEEDS. Judah has participated in idolatry, oppression, and covenant infidelity. These acts have led to invasion....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Beginning of Zedekiah’s reign. _Vide_ Notes, and especially _Personal Allusions_ to chap. 1. _Usher_ dates the chapter B.C. 589; _Hales_ B....
EXPOSITION The chapter falls into three parts, two of which seem to be in some sort of connection, while the third is isolated. First comes a warning to the messengers of Zedekiah of the unfortunate i...
Jeremiah chapter 21. Now the book of Jeremiah is not written in a consecutive kind of an order. This particular prophecy Jeremiah dates. They're just the prophecies of Jeremiah at particular times in...
2 Chronicles 36:19; Ezekiel 20:46; Galatians 6:7; Galatians 6:8;...
The forest — By the forest he either means the forest of Lebanon or their houses, made of wood cut out of that forest. And it — And this fire shall not end in the destruction of this city, but in the...