They shall cut down (u) her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the
(x) grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable.
(u) That is, they will slay the great and mighty men of power.
(x) That is, Nebuchadnezzar's army.
Verse Jeremiah 46:23. _THEY SHALL CUT DOWN HER FOREST_] Supposed to mean her cities, of which Egypt had no fewer than _one thousand_ and _twenty_....
Or, “They have cut down her forest, saith Yahweh, for it is impenetrable,” i. e., just as a pathless forest must be cleared to assist agriculture and the passage to and fro of men, so must the false w...
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...
SEARCHED. reconnoitred. GRASSHOPPERS. locusts....
_though_ better, as mg. _for_. _they are more_ i.e. the enemy. _the locusts_ See on Joel 1:4, C.B. (Driver)....
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...
See introd. note to the ch. and summary. Gi. rejects as later all that follows Jeremiah 46:12 as involving repetitions, looseness of structure, and vagueness in style, criticisms which (see note on Je...
II. THE SECOND ORACLE CONCERNING EGYPT Jeremiah 46:13-26 The second poem concerning Egypt points to an invasion of that land by Nebuchadnezzar (Jeremiah 46:13). It is impossible to ascertain the date...
B. The Consequences of Invasion Jeremiah 46:20-26 TRANSLATION (20) A very beautiful heifer is Egypt. A gadfly from the north has come against her. (21) Also her hirelings in the midst of her are like...
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable. THEY SHALL CUT DOWN HER FOREST - (, "He shall cut do...
AGAINST EGYPT 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around....
HER FOREST] her beauty: cp. Jeremiah 21:14. GRASSHOPPERS] RV 'locusts.'...
כָּרְת֤וּ יַעְרָהּ֙ נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֔ה כִּ֖י לֹ֣א...
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...
_Above, or "more than locusts," (Haydock) which destroy all herbs where they light._...
If the Reader will compare scripture with scripture, which is always the most profitable way of reading the word of God; he will find, that what Jeremiah is here engaged in, Isaiah had been before him...
He goes on here with the same subject. He indeed uses the past tense, but we know that this was commonly done by the Prophets. He compares the people of Egypt to a forest, as he had said that individu...
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...
THEY SHALL CUT DOWN HER FOREST, SAITH THE LORD,.... The land of Egypt, compared to a forest, for the multitude of its cities and towns, and the inhabitants of them; which should be destroyed by the Ch...
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable. Ver. 23. _They shall cut down her forest,_] _i.e., _...
_The voice thereof shall go like a serpent_ “That is, her (Egypt's) voice shall be low and inarticulate through fear. This passage seems to be an imitation of Isaiah 29:4, where we find the same threa...
THE SECOND PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT...
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched, it was impossible to estimate the number of the enemy; BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE THAN THE GRASSHOPPERS, whose swarms contain c...
13-28 Those who encroached on others, shall now be themselves encroached on. Egypt is now like a very fair heifer, not accustomed to the yoke of subjection; but destruction comes out of the north: the...
Egypt is compared to a forest, either for the multitude of cities or of people in that country; and to a thick forest, because as it is a hard thing to make one's way through a forest, so it was judge...
Jeremiah 46:23 down H3772 (H8804) forest H3293 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 searched H2713 (H8735) innumerable
B). ORACLE CONCERNING NEBUCHADREZZAR'S LATER PENETRATION INTO EGYPT WHICH WILL NOT HOWEVER BE TERMINAL (JEREMIAH 46:13). This prophecy here has in mind a much later excursion of Nebuchadrezzar against...
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...
Ezekiel 20:46; Isaiah 10:18; Joel 2:25; Judges 6:5; Judges 7:12;...
Tho' — Tho' it seem impenetrable....