Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 6:22
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the (s) north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
(s) From Babylon by Dan, which was north of Jerusalem.
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the (s) north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
(s) From Babylon by Dan, which was north of Jerusalem.
RAISED - Or, awakened, to undertake distant expeditions. THE SIDES OF THE EARTH - Or ends, the most distant regions (see Jeremiah 25:32)....
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...
THE SIDES, &C. Idiom for. great distance....
_from the north country_ The reference, originally at any rate, was to the Scythians. See on Jeremiah 1:14....
The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
BEHOLD, A PEOPLE, &C.— The Chaldeans are here again described as in chap. Jeremiah 5:15, &c. a distant nation, violent, cruel, armed with bows and spears, and well mounted: Instead of _sides of the ea...
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...
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. A PEOPLE COMETH FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY, AND A GREAT NATION SHAL...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
THE SIDES OF THE EARTH] an expression for the far distance....
FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY... — THE WORDS point, as in Jeremiah 1:13, to the Chaldæan, perhaps, also, to the Scythian, invasion. So the “north quarters” are used in Ezekiel 38:6; Ezekiel 38:15;...
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִנֵּ֛ה עַ֥ם בָּ֖א מֵ
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,...
_North. As Babylon lay with respect to Jerusalem, (Worthington) or rather to the east. (Haydock)_...
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...
It was no useless repetition when the Prophet said so often that _God said. _He might have said only, “Behold, a nation shall come from the north;” but he premises by saying that he derived this messa...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, BEHOLD, A PEOPLE COMETH FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY,.... The Assyrians from Babylon, which lay north of Judea, as in Jeremiah 1:14: AND A GREAT NATION SHALL BE RAISED; that is, by the...
Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. Ver. 22. _Thus saith the Lord._] It is not in vain that this is so...
_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...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth, from its remotest regions, the expression being vague in agreement...
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...
Now the prophet is showing what these destructive stumbling-blocks shall be, of which he had prophesied forty years already, and yet they would not be warned. The north country: see JEREMIAH 6:1. A GR...
Jeremiah 6:22 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 people H5971 comes H935 (H8802) north H6828 country H776 great...
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...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 1:14; Jeremiah 1:15; Jeremiah 10:22; Jeremiah 25:9; Je
Behold — God shall stir up the Chaldeans like a great storm. The sides — The uttermost parts of the Babylonian territories....