Jeremiah 6:28
What meaning of the jeremiah 6:28 in the Bible?
What does Jeremiah 6:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters."
What does Jeremiah 6:28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters."
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 PROPHET'S TASK. The record of earlier prophecies (Jeremiah 6:1) fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the trier (_mg._) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy mixed w...
BRASS AND IRON. Not silver and gold. Compare Ezekiel 22:18....
The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER, &C.— The prophet in these verses evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such trial, m...
6. _The hopeless task of the Prophet_ (Jeremiah 6:27-30) TRANSLATION (27) A tower have I made you among My people, a fortified city that you may know, then test their way. (28) They are all rebellio...
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. GRIEVOUS REVOLTERS - literally, contumacious of the contumacious - i:e., most contumacious...
1-8. The hostile army approaches....
GRIEVOUS REVOLTERS... — Literally, _rebels of rebels,_ as a Hebraism for the worst type of rebellion. WALKING WITH SLANDERS. — The phrase was a common one (Leviticus 19:16; Proverbs 11:13; Proverbs 2...
כֻּלָּם֙ סָרֵ֣י סֹֽורְרִ֔ים הֹלְכֵ֥י רָכִ֖יל נְחֹ֣שֶׁת וּ בַרְזֶ֑ל כֻּלָּ֥ם מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ים הֵֽמָּה׃...
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,...
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...
The Prophet now shews what he found the Jews to be, whose manners and proceedings he had been commanded to observe. Had he said this at first, either the fury of the people would have been kindled, or...
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 ARE ALL GRIEVOUS REVOLTERS,.... From the right way of God and his worship: or, THEY ARE ALL REVOLTERS OF REVOLTERS e; of all, the greatest revolters, the greatest sinners and transgressors, the...
They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters. Ver. 28. _They are all grievous revolters._] Heb., Revolters of revolters. Chald., Prin...
_They are all grievous revolters_ Obstinate and refractory; _walking with slanders_ Making it their business to detract from thee and the other prophets. Blaney translates the clause, _They are all of...
THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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...
GRIEVOUS REVOLTERS; obstinate and refractory, ISAIAH 31:6 JEREMIAH 5:3,23. WALKING WITH SLANDERS; being their main business to detract from thee and the other prophets, JEREMIAH 18:18, JEREMIAH 20:10;...
Jeremiah 6:28 stubborn H5493 (H8802) rebels H5637 (H8802) walking H1980 (H8802) slanderers H7400 bronze H5178 iron H1270 corrupters H7843 (H8688) all grievous - Jeremiah 5:23; Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 31:6...
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 6:27 TESTER OF METALS. Jeremiah’s task is to assess how much impurity remains in a people called to be pure. The ancient refining process used heated lead to draw out ore fro...
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...
Ezekiel 22:18; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 31:6; Jeremiah 18:18; Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 5:23; Jeremiah 6:30; Jeremiah 9:4; Psalms 50:20