PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Jeremiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 357,402 words · 646 reading sections
Jeremiah 5:9
Jeremiah 5:9 Ver. 9. Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord,.... For such adulteries and lasciviousness, and that in a way of punishment. The Targum adds, "to bring evil upon them;'' the evil of punishment for the evil of sin: and shall not my soul be avenged upon such a nation as this? which cannot del…
115 wordsSECTION 62Jeremiah 5:10
Jeremiah 5:10 Ver. 10. Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy,.... These are the words of the prophet, or of the Lord by the prophet, to the Chaldeans, ordering them to ascend the walls of Jerusalem, and break them down, as they did, even all the walls of it round about, Jer 52:7, there can be nothing done without the L…
398 wordsSECTION 63Jeremiah 5:11
Jeremiah 5:11 Ver. 11. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,.... This is a reason why such orders are given to the army of the Chaldeans to ascend the walls of Jerusalem and destroy them; namely, the perfidy both of the ten tribes, signified by the house of Israel; so…
162 wordsSECTION 64Jeremiah 5:12
Jeremiah 5:12 Ver. 12. They have belied the Lord, and said, it is not he,.... Or, "denied the Lord" {x}, as some render the words, saying that there was no God; which, though they might not deliver in express words, yet inasmuch as they denied his providence, and disbelieved his word by his prophets, it was tacitly de…
158 wordsSECTION 65Jeremiah 5:13
Jeremiah 5:13 Ver. 13. And the prophets shall become wind,.... Their prophecies shall vanish into air; they shall become of no effect; they shall never be accomplished:and the word is not in them; not the word of the Lord; he never spoke by them; they speak of themselves; they never were inspired or commissioned by hi…
3,949 wordsSECTION 66Jeremiah 6:1
Jeremiah 6:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 6 This chapter is of the same argument with the former; and contains two things in it, the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and the causes of it, which are intermixedly handled in it; a lively description is made of the notice of the approach of the enemy by blowing o…
1,072 wordsSECTION 67Jeremiah 6:2
Jeremiah 6:2 Ver. 2. I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman. That dwells at home and lives in pleasure, and deliciously, in great peace and quietness, in entire ease and security, in no fear of enemies, or apprehension of danger; and so it describes the secure state of the Jews. Kimchi and …
201 wordsSECTION 68Jeremiah 6:3
Jeremiah 6:3 Ver. 3. The shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her,.... Kings and their armies, as the Targum paraphrases it; kings and generals are compared to shepherds, and their armies to flocks, who are under their command and direction; here they design Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, with his generals and…
275 wordsSECTION 69Jeremiah 6:4
Jeremiah 6:4 Ver. 4. Prepare ye war against her,.... Not only proclaim it, but prepare themselves for it; get everything ready for the siege, and begin it. These are either the words of the Lord, calling upon the Chaldeans in his providence to act such a part against Jerusalem; or of the Chaldeans themselves, stirring…
274 wordsSECTION 70Jeremiah 6:5
Jeremiah 6:5 Ver. 5. Arise, and let us go up by night,.... Since they could not take the city at noon, and by day, as they expected, they propose to attempt it by night; they would lose no time, but proceed on, day and night, until they had accomplished their end; this shows how much they were resolved upon it, and th…
144 wordsSECTION 71Jeremiah 6:6
Jeremiah 6:6 Ver. 6. For thus hath the Lord of hosts said,.... To the Chaldeans; for as it was the Lord that brought them out of their own country, and directed them to Jerusalem, and ordered them to prepare war against it; so they were as an army under his command, and he it was that ordered them to do this, and that…
399 wordsSECTION 72Jeremiah 6:7
Jeremiah 6:7 Ver. 7. As a fountain casteth out her waters,.... In great abundance, and continually: so she casteth out her wickedness; this metaphor expresses the multitude of her sins, the frequent and constant commission of them, and the source and spring of them, the corrupt fountain of the heart; see Mt 12:34: v…
226 wordsSECTION 73Jeremiah 6:8
Jeremiah 6:8 Ver. 8. And be thou instructed, O Jerusalem,.... Or "corrected" {s}; receive discipline or instructions by chastisements and corrections, return by repentance, that the evils threatened may not come: this shows the affection of the Lord to his people, notwithstanding all their sins; that their amendment, …
247 wordsSECTION 74Jeremiah 6:9
Jeremiah 6:9 Ver. 9. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... Finding that all his threatenings, admonitions, and expostulations, were in vain, he says of the Chaldeans, with respect to the Israelites, they shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine; by "the remnant of Israel" are meant the two tribes of Judah a…
300 wordsSECTION 75Jeremiah 6:10
Jeremiah 6:10 Ver. 10. To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear?.... These are the words of the prophet, despairing of any success by his ministry; suggesting that the people were so universally depraved, that there were none that would hear him; that speaking to them was only beating the air, and t…
304 wordsSECTION 76Jeremiah 6:11
Jeremiah 6:11 Ver. 11. Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord,.... Either of zeal for the Lord, for the glory of his name, and the honour of his word; or rather of the prophecy of the Lord, as the Targum interprets it, concerning the wrath of God, that should come upon this people for their sins: I am weary with…
383 wordsSECTION 77Jeremiah 6:12
Jeremiah 6:12 Ver. 12. And their houses shall be turned unto others,.... To strangers, to the Chaldeans; they shall be transferred unto them, come into their hands, and become their property: with their fields and wives together: not only their houses and lands shall be taken away from them, and put to the use of oth…
154 wordsSECTION 78Jeremiah 6:13
Jeremiah 6:13 Ver. 13. For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them,.... From the least in age to the oldest among them; or rather, from persons of the lowest class of life, and in the meanest circumstances, to those that are in the highest places of trust and honour, and are in the greatest affluence of …
4,262 wordsSECTION 79Jeremiah 7:1
Jeremiah 7:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 7 In this chapter the Lord, by the prophet, calls the people of the Jews to repentance and reformation; reproves them for their vain confidence; and threatens them with destruction for their many sins, and particularly idolatry. The preface to all this is in Jer 7:1, the exhortat…
502 wordsSECTION 80Jeremiah 7:2
Jeremiah 7:2 Ver. 2. Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,.... That is, of the temple, and the court of it. This gate, as Kimchi says, was the eastern gate, which was the principal gate of all; see Jer 26:2: and proclaim there this word, and say; with a loud voice, as follows: hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye o…
256 wordsSECTION 81Jeremiah 7:3
Jeremiah 7:3 Ver. 3. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... The Lord of armies above and below in general, and the God of Israel in particular; wherefore they ought to hearken to what he was about to say, and to be obedient to him: amend your ways and your doings; or, "make them good" {l}; which shows t…
180 wordsSECTION 82Jeremiah 7:4
Jeremiah 7:4 Ver. 4. Trust ye not in lying words,.... In the words of the lying prophets, as the Targum; and to the same purpose is the Arabic version, "do not trust in lying words, for the false prophets do not profit you in anything;'' the things in which they trusted, and in which the false prophets taught them t…
425 wordsSECTION 83Jeremiah 7:5
Jeremiah 7:5 Ver. 5. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings,.... Or, "if ye make your ways good, and do your works well", which is what is exhorted to Jer 7:3, and respects the duties of the moral law; which are more acceptable to God than legal sacrifices, when done from right principles, and with right…
139 wordsSECTION 84Jeremiah 7:6
Jeremiah 7:6 Ver. 6. If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow,.... Who have none to help them, and who ought to have mercy and compassion shown them, as well as justice done them; and should not be injured by private men in their persons and properties, and much less oppressed in courts of judicat…
230 wordsSECTION 85Jeremiah 7:7
Jeremiah 7:7 Ver. 7. Then will I cause you to dwell in this place,.... In the land of Judea, and not suffer them to be carried captive, which they had been threatened with, and had reason to expect, should they continue in their sins, in their impenitence and vain confidence: in the land that I gave to your fathers; …
167 wordsSECTION 86Jeremiah 7:8
Jeremiah 7:8 Ver. 8. Behold, ye trust in lying words,.... What they are dissuaded from, Jer 7:4, is here affirmed they did, and which is introduced with a note of asseveration, attention, and admiration; it being a certain thing that they did so; and was what was worthy of their consideration and serious reflection up…
147 wordsSECTION 87Jeremiah 7:9
Jeremiah 7:9 Ver. 9. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely,.... At the same time they offered sacrifices, and trusted in them, they did those things, which would not be grateful to the Lord, nor profitable to them; or, "ye do steal", &c.; so the Septuagint, and all the Oriental versions; and li…
171 wordsSECTION 88Jeremiah 7:10
Jeremiah 7:10 Ver. 10. And come and stand before me in this house,.... In the temple; this they did after they had been guilty of such immoralities and idolatry; thinking by their appearance there, and their performance of a few ceremonies, and offering of some sacrifices, that all were atoned for: or this denotes the…
281 wordsSECTION 89Jeremiah 7:11
Jeremiah 7:11 Ver. 11. Is this house, which is called by my name,.... Meaning the temple: become a den of robbers in your eyes? or do you look upon it, and make use of it, as thieves do of dens; who, when they have robbed and murdered men, betake themselves to them, not only to share their spoil, but to hide themselv…
222 wordsSECTION 90Jeremiah 7:12
Jeremiah 7:12 Ver. 12. But go ye now unto my place, which was in Shiloh,.... A city in the tribe of Ephraim, on the north of Bethel, and the south of Lebonah, and not far from Shechem, Jud 21:19 here were the tabernacle, the ark and altar of the Lord, and the sacrifices; and therefore the tabernacle is called the tabe…
380 wordsSECTION 91Jeremiah 7:13
Jeremiah 7:13 Ver. 13. And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord,.... Meaning evil works, such as theft, murder, adultery, perjury, and idolatry, mentioned Jer 7:8 or the same which were done by the people of Israel, on account of which the tabernacle at Shiloh was left: and I spake unto you, risi…
231 wordsSECTION 92Jeremiah 7:14
Jeremiah 7:14 Ver. 14. Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name,.... The temple, as in Jer 7:11, for though it was called by his name, and his name was called upon in it, yet this could not secure it from desolation; for so the name of the Lord was set in the tabernacle at Shiloh, and yet he for…
179 wordsSECTION 93Jeremiah 7:15
Jeremiah 7:15 Ver. 15. And I will cast you out of my sight,.... Or, "from before my face", or "faces" {n}; out of the land of Judea, and cause them to go into captivity; and so the Targum paraphrases it, "I will cause you to remove out of the land of the house of my majesty:'' as I have cast out all your brethren, e…
169 wordsSECTION 94Jeremiah 7:16
Jeremiah 7:16 Ver. 16. Therefore pray not thou for this people,.... These are the words of the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah, forbidding him to pray for the people of the Jews; which he either was doing, or about to do, and which, from the great affection he had for them, he was inclined unto; wherefore, to show how mu…
285 wordsSECTION 95Jeremiah 7:17
Jeremiah 7:17 Ver. 17. Seest thou not what they do in the cities Judah,.... Not in one city only, but in all of and particularly the chief of them; as follows: and in the streets of Jerusalem? these words, with what is said next, show the reason why the prophet was forbid to pray for this people, and the Lord was so …
3,731 wordsSECTION 96Jeremiah 8:1
Jeremiah 8:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 8 In this chapter the prophet goes on to denounce grievous calamities upon the people of the Jews; such as would make death more eligible than life; and that because of their idolatry, Jer 8:1 and also because of their heinous backslidings in other respects, and continuance in th…
444 wordsSECTION 97Jeremiah 8:2
Jeremiah 8:2 Ver. 2. And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven,.... The stars. This shows, not only that they should be publicly exposed; but, as it refers to their idolatrous worship of the sun, moon, and stars, that these deities will not be able to help them; as they could n…
344 wordsSECTION 98Jeremiah 8:3
Jeremiah 8:3 Ver. 3. And death shall be chosen rather than life,.... By them that should be alive in those times, who would be carried captive into other lands, and be used very hardly, and suffer greatly, by the nations among whom they should dwell; see Re 9:6. The Septuagint version, and those that follow it, make t…
215 wordsSECTION 99Jeremiah 8:4
Jeremiah 8:4 Ver. 4. Moreover, thou shalt say unto them,.... The Jews, in Jeremiah's time, in order to leave them inexcusable, though the Lord had before assured that they would not hearken to him, Jer 7:27: thus saith the Lord, shall they fall, and not rise? men, when they fall, endeavour to get up again, and genera…
145 wordsSECTION 100Jeremiah 8:5
Jeremiah 8:5 Ver. 5. Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?.... These people fill into sin, and rise not again by repentance; they turn out of the good ways of God and religion, and return not again; they backslide and revolt from the Lord, and they continue in their revolt and r…
258 wordsSECTION 101Jeremiah 8:6
Jeremiah 8:6 Ver. 6. I hearkened and heard,.... These are either, the words of the prophet, as Kimchi and Abarbinel think; who listened and attended to, and made his observations upon, the words and actions, conduct and behaviour, of this people, of which he gives an account: or of the Lord himself, as the Targum; who…
445 wordsSECTION 102Jeremiah 8:7
Jeremiah 8:7 Ver. 7. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times,.... Of going and returning; for this is a bird of passage, as Pliny {d} and other naturalists observe; which goes away as winter approaches, and returns when that is over. The temperature of the air, as to heat and cold, and the natural pro…
440 wordsSECTION 103Jeremiah 8:8
Jeremiah 8:8 Ver. 8. How do ye say, we are wise,.... Which they were continually boasting of, though they were ignorant of the judgment of the Lord, and were more stupid than the stork, turtle, crane, and swallow: and the law of the Lord is with us? this was the foundation of their boast, because the law was given to…
389 wordsSECTION 104Jeremiah 8:9
Jeremiah 8:9 Ver. 9. The wise men are ashamed,.... Of the wisdom of which they boasted, when it would appear to be folly, and unprofitable to them: they are dismayed and taken; frightened at the calamities coming upon them, and taken as in a snare, as the wise sometimes are in their own craftiness, Job 5:13. Lo, the…
144 wordsSECTION 105Jeremiah 8:10
Jeremiah 8:10 Ver. 10. Therefore will I give their wives unto others,.... To strangers, to the Gentiles; than which nothing could be more disagreeable to them, or a sorer punishment, of a temporal one: and their fields to them that shall inherit them; or, to the heirs {i}; other and new ones; and who should possess …
170 wordsSECTION 106Jeremiah 8:11
Jeremiah 8:11 Ver. 11. For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people,.... See Gill on "Jer 6:14", See Gill on "Jer 6:15".…
29 wordsSECTION 107Jeremiah 8:13
Jeremiah 8:13 Ver. 13. I will surely consume them, saith the Lord,.... Or, "gathering I will gather them" {k}; into some one place, the city of Jerusalem, and there destroy them. The word is, hyylk Nwvl, expressive of consumption and destruction, as Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Melech observe; and so the Targum, "destroyi…
326 wordsSECTION 108Jeremiah 8:14
Jeremiah 8:14 Ver. 14. Why do we sit still?.... In the country, where were barrenness and want of provisions; in the villages and unwalled towns, where they were exposed to the spoils and ravages of the enemy. These words, with what follow, are the words of the prophet, in the language of the Israelites, as Kimchi obs…
1,963 wordsSECTION 109Jeremiah 9:1
Jeremiah 9:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 9 This chapter is a continuation of the judgments of God upon the Jews for their sins and transgressions herein mentioned; illustrated by the lamentation of the prophet; by calling for the mourning women, and upon other women that had lost their husbands or children, with an inti…
604 wordsSECTION 110Jeremiah 9:2
Jeremiah 9:2 Ver. 2. Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men,.... Such as travellers take up with in a desert, when they are benighted, and cannot reach a town or village. This the prophet chose, partly that he might have an opportunity to give vent to his grief, being alone; for which reason …
330 wordsSECTION 111Jeremiah 9:3
Jeremiah 9:3 Ver. 3. And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies,.... Their tongues were like bows, and their lying words like arrows, which they directed against persons to their injury; see Ps 11:2, or, "like their deceitful bow" {p}; to which the Targum agrees, "they teach their tongues words of falsehood,…
331 wordsSECTION 112Jeremiah 9:4
Jeremiah 9:4 Ver. 4. Take ye heed everyone of his neighbour,.... Take care of being imposed upon by them, since they are so given to lying and deceit; be not too credulous, or too easily believe what is said; or keep yourselves from them; have no company or conversation with them, since evil communications corrupt goo…
291 wordsSECTION 113Jeremiah 9:5
Jeremiah 9:5 Ver. 5. And they will deceive everyone his neighbour,.... In conversation, with lying words; and in trade and commerce, by art and tricking: and will not speak the truth; with respect to facts they report, or goods they sell: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; and become so accustomed to lying…
123 wordsSECTION 114Jeremiah 9:6
Jeremiah 9:6 Ver. 6. Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit,.... In the midst of a people of deceit, as Kimchi and Ben Molech. These are the words of the Lord to the prophet, showing what a people he dwelt among, and had to do with; how cautiously and prudently he should act; how little they were to be trusted to …
180 wordsSECTION 115Jeremiah 9:7
Jeremiah 9:7 Ver. 7. Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... Because of this deceit and hypocrisy, and lying: behold, I will melt them, and try them: as the refiner does his gold and silver, by putting them into the fire of afflictions, and thereby remove their dross and corruption from them. So the Targum, "beh…
174 wordsSECTION 116Jeremiah 9:8
Jeremiah 9:8 Ver. 8. Their tongue is as an arrow shot out,.... As an arrow out of a bow, which moves swiftly, and comes with great force; or, "drawn out" {u}; as out of a quiver. The word is used of gold, and rendered "beaten gold", 1Ki 10:16, gold drawn out into plates; and here of an arrow drawn out of a quiver; and…
219 wordsSECTION 117Jeremiah 9:9
Jeremiah 9:9 Ver. 9. Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord,.... The Targum adds, "to bring evil upon them.'' Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? the Targum is, "or of a people whose works are such, shall I not take vengeance according to my pleasure?'' See Gill on "Jer 5:9".…
62 wordsSECTION 118Jeremiah 9:10
Jeremiah 9:10 Ver. 10. For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing,.... Because of the desolation of them; because no pasture upon them, nor flocks feeding there; or "concerning" them, as the Arabic version; or "upon" them {y}, in order to cause the lamentation to be heard the further; but the former sense …
392 wordsSECTION 119Jeremiah 9:11
Jeremiah 9:11 Ver. 11. And I will make Jerusalem heaps,.... That is, the walls and houses of it shall be thrown down, and become heaps of stones and rubbish: and a den of dragons; only inhabited by wild beasts: and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without inhabitant; so that the calamity would be universal;…
74 wordsSECTION 120Jeremiah 9:12
Jeremiah 9:12 Ver. 12. Who is the wise man that may understand this?.... Not the calamity, but the cause of it; a man of wisdom would inquire into it, find it out, and understand it; but the intimation is, that there was not a wise man among them, at least very few; there were scarce any that took any notice of these …
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