What does Jeremiah 6:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken."
Verse Jeremiah 6:17. _I SET WATCHMEN_] I have sent prophets to warn you....
WATCHMEN - The prophets Isaiah 52:8. THE SECOND OF THE TRUMPET - This was the signal for flight Jeremiah 6:1; Amos 3:6. Similarly the prophet’s warning was to move men to escape from God’s judgments....
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...
Jeremiah 6:16. OBEDIENCE MORE THAN SACRIFICE. Yahweh vainly bade the people stand at the parting of the ways (Hebrew, by the ways), and seek the ancient road to prosperity, that they may find repose f...
HEARKEN. Give ye heed. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "And (therefore) give ye heed"....
The third division. See introd. note to the ch....
ALSO I SET WATCHMEN OVER YOU— "I have given you prophets, _as watchmen_ or centinels, to advertise you of the approach of the enemy, that you may obey their voice, and prevent the evils which they thr...
4. _Prescription for deliverance_ (Jeremiah 6:16-21) TRANSLATION (16) Thus said the LORD: Stand along side the ways and observe. Ask for the old ways where the good way is and walk in it and you will...
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. WATCHMEN - prophets, whose duty it was to announce impending calamities, so as to lead t...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
WATCHMEN. — i.e., the sentinels of the army, as in 1 Samuel 14:16, giving the signal in this case, not for advance but for retreat (comp. Jeremiah 6:1, and Amos 3:6). The watchmen are, of course (as i...
וַ הֲקִמֹתִ֤י עֲלֵיכֶם֙ צֹפִ֔ים הַקְשִׁ֖יבוּ לְ קֹ֣ול שֹׁופָ֑ר וַ יֹּאמְר֖וּ לֹ֥א נַקְשִֽׁיב׃...
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,...
Also I set (p) watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. (p) Prophets who would warn you of the dangers that were at hand....
_Watchmen. Prophets, Ezechiel iii. 17., and xxxiii. 2._...
In what strong terms doth the Lord set forth the folly of outward things, as the incense and the cane, when there was no inward offering of the heart. What are all acts of religion, when there is no r...
This is an explanation of the last verse, yet not simply so; for the Prophet by a similitude aggravates the obstinacy of the people, who were not only deaf to the Prophet’s admonitions, but would not...
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...
ALSO I SET WATCHMEN OVER YOU,.... That is, prophets, as Jarchi; true prophets, as Kimchi; such an one was Ezekiel, Jeremiah 3:17. The Targum interprets it teachers; such were the apostles and first mi...
Also I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. Ver. 17. _Also I set watchmen over you,_] _i.e., _ Priests and prophets to watch for y...
_Stand ye in the ways_, &c. He now turns his speech to the people, and gives them counsel; by a metaphor taken from travellers, who, being in doubt of their way, stand still, and consider, whether the...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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...
WATCHMEN, viz. prophets and messengers, that sought their good, and endeavoured to prevent their miseries by foretelling what was coming upon them, EZEKIEL 3:17, EZEKIEL 33:7 _A metaphor from watchmen...
Jeremiah 6:17 set H6965 (H8689) watchmen H6822 (H8802) Listen H7181 (H8685) sound H6963 trumpet H7782 said H559 (H8799) listen H7181 (H8686) I - Jeremiah 25:4; Isaiah 21:11, Isaiah 56:10;...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 6:17 WATCHMEN. Moses and the prophets (2 Kings 17:7). TRUMPET. Blown to warn cities of danger (Jeremiah 4:5, Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 4:21; Jeremiah 6:1). Here it refers to Go...
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...
Acts 20:27; Amos 3:6; Ezekiel 3:17; Ezekiel 33:2; Habakkuk 2:1; Hebrews 13:17; Hosea 8:1; Isaiah 21:11; Isaiah 56:10; Isaiah 58:1;...
Trumpet — The voice of his prophet, intimating his loud crying upon the account of eminent danger....