What does Jeremiah 31:39 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath."
Verse Jeremiah 31:39. _UPON THE HILL GAREB_] _Gareb_ and _Goath_ are out of the limits of this city. The latter is supposed to be _Golgotha_; that is, the _heap of Gotha_, which, being the place where...
OVER ... GAREB - Or, straight along the hill Gareb. Probably the hill of lepers, outside the old walls, toward the southwest. GOATH - Goah. Unknown....
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. The home-going of the nation (Jeremiah 31:1) _ 2. The joy of salvation (Jeremiah 31:10) 3. The preceding tribulation, sorrow and repentance (Jeremiah 31:15) 4. Assurance (Jeremiah...
Israel's national existence shall be as permanent as Yahweh's rule of nature (Jeremiah 31:35 f.); it is as impossible for Israel to be rejected as it is for man to comprehend the created world (Jeremi...
UPON. over.. special various reading called _Sevir_ (App-34), reads "as far as", with some codices, Aramaean, and Septuagint GAREB... GOATH. Not named elsewhere....
See introd. summary to the section....
BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, &C.— The prophet here describes the limits of that new Jerusalem which the Jews were to build upon their restoration. This must certainly refer to some future restoration; for t...
G. The New City Jeremiah 31:38-40 TRANSLATION (38) Behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when the city of the LORD shall be built from the tower of Hananeel unto the Corner Gate. (39) And the...
And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. THE MEASURING LINE - (Ezekiel 40:8; Zechariah 2:1). GAREB - from a Hebrew root [g...
1-22. Jeremiah speaks of the restoration first of Israel (Ephraim, Jeremiah 31:2), then of Judah (Jeremiah 31:23.). Those who survive the sufferings of the captivity are promised a safe journey home....
THE HILL GAREB... — Neither of the two localities named is mentioned elsewhere, and their position is accordingly simply matter for conjecture. The name of the first, as signifying “the leper’s hill”...
וְ יָצָ֨א עֹ֜וד _קָ֤ו_† הַ מִּדָּה֙ נֶגְדֹּ֔ו עַ֖ל גִּבְעַ֣ת גָּרֵ֑ב וְ נָסַ֖ב גֹּעָֽתָה׃...
CHAPTER XXXI RESTORATION II THE NEW ISRAEL Jeremiah 23:3; Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 30:1; Jeremiah 31:1; Jeremiah 33:1 "In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this...
Continuing, the Prophet dealt with the issues of restoration. He first described the restoration of the city. After affirming the ancient love of Jehovah for His people, he foretold the building of th...
If we accept this promise as in the smallest degree referring to the building of the second temple and the city, after the people's return from Babylon, we must still look further to gospel days, to o...
He afterwards adds, _Yet go forth shall the line of measure before him _Some apply this to the gate, because from the gate the line was to be extended to _the hill Gareb, and go round to Goath _Of the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 31 AND 32. But it would not be Judah only, to whom the prophecies of Jeremiah were addressed, that should be restored-all the families of Israel should enjoy...
AND THE MEASURING LINE SHALL YET GO FORTH OVER AGAINST IT,.... Or, "before it" p; the gate proceeding right on from it; of the length of the measuring line, or reed; see Ezekiel 40:5; though some rend...
And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath. Ver. 39. _Upon the hill Gareb._] _Versus collem scabiosi,_ toward the hill of the scab...
_Behold, the days come, that the city shall be built to the Lord_ Or, _for the Lord_, namely, for his use and service. Blaney renders it, _Under the direction_ of the Lord, _from the tower of Hananeel...
THE NEW LIFE AND THE NEW COVENANT...
35-40 As surely as the heavenly bodies will continue their settled course, according to the will of their Creator, to the end of time, and as the raging sea obeys him, so surely will the Jews be conti...
That is, it shall be built round about upon its old foundations: see NE 3. We are ignorant of the ancient situation of the city, so are the Jews themselves, therefore it is vain to pretend to an exact...
Jeremiah 31:39 surveyors H4060 line H6957 (H8675) H6961 extend H3318 (H8804) hill H1389 Gareb H1619 turn H5437 (H8738) Goath H1601 Ezekiel 40:8; Zechariah 2:1-2...
SUB-PART B. THE COMING DAYS WILL INTRODUCE A COMPLETELY NEW TYPE OF COVENANT PROVIDED BY YHWH, ONE THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE HEART AND WILL THUS RESULT IN CHANGED LIVES (JEREMIAH 31:23). This sub-part c...
CONTENTS: Israel in the last days. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God will again at the end of the age take Israel into new covenant relation with Himself, from which they have for hundreds of years b...
Jeremiah 31:1. _At the same time,_ namely, as the last words of the preseding chapter, in the latter day. Here the subject is glorious, and the language sublime. Jeremiah 31:3. _I have loved thee wit...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 31:1 This chapter includes the most famous passage in Jeremiah 1:1, the promise of a new covenant (vv. Jeremiah 31:31). Leading up to that passage, God promises Israel that t...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_Vide_ on chap. 30. These two Chapter s form an unbroken prophecy, “a triumphal hymn of Israel’s salvation.” The former chapter pledges the recovery from captivity of bo...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 31:1 The promise of Jeremiah 30:22 is expressly declared to apply to both sections of the nation. Jehovah thus solemnly declares his purpose of mercy, and dwells with special Mad...
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Jeremiah 31:1-40. Now there are those who say that God has cast off Israel as a nation forever, and that all of the blessings, all of the covenants and all of...
Ezekiel 40:8; Zechariah 2:1; Zechariah 2:2...
The line — That is, it shall be built round about upon its old foundations....