What does Jeremiah 6:14 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They have healed also the hurtd of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace."
Verse Jeremiah 6:14. _THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT_ OF THE DAUGHTER _OF MY_ _PEOPLE SLIGHTLY_] _Of the daughter_ is not in the text, and is here improperly added: it is, however, in some MSS. _PEAC...
HEALED - Rather, “tried to heal.” OF THE DAUGHTER - These words are omitted by a majority of manuscripts, but found in most of the versions. SLIGHTLY - literally, “according to,” i. e., as if it wer...
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) Jeremiah 6:1. The children of B...
THE JUSTIFICATION OF YAHWEH'S WRATH. The turn of Judah, the remnant of Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21) to do his wo...
HURT. Same word as "destruction" (Jeremiah 6:1). OF THE DAUGHTER. Some codices, with four early printed editions, read these words in the text. PEACE, PEACE. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6), fo...
See introd. note to ch. The gleaners shall go over and over again. Calamity shall not visit the land once only, as it has already visited the Northern tribes, but many times....
THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT, &C.— _But they apply only a slight medicine to the wounds of the daughter of my people; saying, Peace, peace, when there shall be no peace._ See chap. Jeremiah 8:11. Ho...
3. _The success of the foe_ (Jeremiah 6:9-15) TRANSLATION (9) Thus says the LORD of hosts: They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn again your hand like a grape gatherer over...
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. HURT - the spiritual wound. SLIGHTLY - as if it were but a slight wound; or, i...
6:14 breach (b-6) Or 'wound.' of (c-10) Many omit 'the daughter of,' but see ch. 8.11....
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
THEY HAVE HEALED... SLIGHTLY. — Literally, _as a thing of nought, a light matter._ The words “of the daughter” are in italics, as indicating that the marginal reading of the Hebrew omits them. They ar...
וַֽ יְרַפְּא֞וּ אֶת ־שֶׁ֤בֶר עַמִּי֙ עַל ־נְקַלָּ֔ה לֵ אמֹ֖ר שָׁלֹ֣ום ׀ שָׁלֹ֑ום וְ אֵ֖ין שָׁלֹֽום׃
Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of prophecy, two thing...
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,...
They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, (n) Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. (n) When the people began to fear God's judgments, the false prophets comfo...
_Disgracefully. They shall be ashamed, when the contrary to what they declared shall come to pass, chap. viii. 11._...
All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that b...
This is to be applied to the prophets and priests alone; they not only corrupted the people by their bad example, but also shook off every fear of God, and by their impostures and false boasting took...
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 t...
THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE SLIGHTLY,.... That is, the false prophets and lying priests, who pretended to be physicians, and to heal the sickly and distempered state of...
They have healed also the hurt [of the daughter] of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when [there is] no peace. Ver. 14. They have healed also the hurt of … slightly.] Heb., Upon a slight or...
_For, from the least of them_, &c. Old and young, rich and poor, high and low, those of all ranks, professions, and employments; _every one is given to covetousness_ Greedy of filthy lucre; and this m...
THE PROPHET VOICES THE FURY OF THE LORD...
HURT: _ Heb._ bruise or breach...
9-17 When the Lord arises to take vengeance, no sinners of any age or rank, or of either sex escape. They were set upon the world, and wholly carried away by the love of it. If we judge of this sin by...
THEY HAVE HEALED ALSO THE HURT OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE SLIGHTLY: this refers peculiarly to the prophets; either slighting or making light of these threatenings, tending to the reproach either, 1...
Jeremiah 6:14 healed H7495 (H8762) hurt H7667 people H5971 slightly H7043 (H8738) Saying H559 (H8800) Peace H7965 peace H7965 peace H7965 healed - Jeremiah 8:11-12; Ezekiel 13:10 hurt - Heb. bruise,...
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 rea...
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...
_They have healed also the hurt. .. slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace._ HEALING OUR WOUNDS SLIGHTLY I. What need we all have of healing. 1. Asserted in Scripture. 2. Confirmed...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:13 Greed always leads to seeking UNJUST GAIN. PROPHET... PRIEST. These religious leaders are as greedy as the people. Thus, they promise PEACE rather than the punishment of...
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...
2 Peter 2:1; 2 Peter 2:18; 2 Peter 2:19; Ezekiel 13:10; Ezekiel 13:22; Isaiah 1:6; Isaiah 30:26; Jeremiah 14:13; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah
They have — This refers peculiarly to the prophets; making light of these threatenings, daubing over the misery and danger that was coming on the people, by persuading them, that it should not come, o...