PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Jeremiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 357,402 words · 646 reading sections
Jeremiah 15:3
Jeremiah 15:3 Ver. 3. And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord,.... Or four families {x}, and these very devouring ones; that is, four sorts of punishment; and so the Targum, "four evil punishments;'' which are after mentioned. These are represented as under God, and at his beck and command; servants …
282 wordsSECTION 182Jeremiah 15:4
Jeremiah 15:4 Ver. 4. And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth,.... Not only into Babylon, but into other countries; which has had its full accomplishment in this their last captivity by the Romans: or "I will give them for a commotion" {z}; shaking and trembling; they shall be like Cain, fug…
305 wordsSECTION 183Jeremiah 15:5
Jeremiah 15:5 Ver. 5. For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem?.... The inhabitants of it; their sins being so many, and so heinous, and so aggravated, and so deserving of punishment, that none could pity their case, or have a heart of compassion towards them, or even spare reproaching them: or "who shall bemoan…
143 wordsSECTION 184Jeremiah 15:6
Jeremiah 15:6 Ver. 6. Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord,.... His worship, as the Targum; and had set up idols, and idol worship; and this was the cause of the sword, pestilence, famine, and captivity, and of all the evils that befell them: thou art gone backward; from the law of the Lord, and from his pure worshi…
209 wordsSECTION 185Jeremiah 15:7
Jeremiah 15:7 Ver. 7. I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land,.... Either of their own land, the land of Judea; and so the Septuagint version, "in the gates of my people"; alluding to the custom of winnowing corn in open places; and by fanning is meant the dispersion of the Jews, and their being carried ca…
256 wordsSECTION 186Jeremiah 15:8
Jeremiah 15:8 Ver. 8. Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas,.... Their husbands being slain; not in the times of Ahaz, when a hundred and twenty thousand men were slain in one day in Judah, by Pekah the son of Remaliah, 2Ch 28:6, as Kimchi thinks; but in the times of Zedekiah, at the siege of Jer…
534 wordsSECTION 187Jeremiah 15:9
Jeremiah 15:9 Ver. 9. She that hath borne seven languisheth,.... Either the mother that has borne many children, seven being put for a large number, now being able to bear no more, and being bereaved of what she had, and who were her staff and support, and from whom she had her expectation, faints away, and dies throu…
327 wordsSECTION 188Jeremiah 15:10
Jeremiah 15:10 Ver. 10. Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast born me a man of strife,.... Not that the prophet was a quarrelsome and contentious man, but others quarrelled and contended with him, and that for no other reason than for his faithful discharge of his office, under which he ought to have been easy; but bei…
3,472 wordsSECTION 189Jeremiah 16:1
Jeremiah 16:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 16 In this chapter the ruin and destruction of the Jews is set forth, and confirmed by the prophet's being forbid to be merry, or to go into the house of feasting or mourning, with the reasons thereof; also the sins of the people, the cause of it, are pointed at; and afterwards …
420 wordsSECTION 190Jeremiah 16:2
Jeremiah 16:2 Ver. 2. Thou shall not take thee a wife,.... Not because it was unlawful; for it was lawful for prophets to marry, and they did; but because it was not advisable, on account of the calamities and distresses which were coming upon the nation; which would be more bearable by him alone, than if he had a wif…
142 wordsSECTION 191Jeremiah 16:3
Jeremiah 16:3 Ver. 3. For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place,..... This is a reason given why the prophet should not have, and why he should not be desirous to have, sons and daughters in such a place and country, devoted to destruction: and concerning the…
154 wordsSECTION 192Jeremiah 16:4
Jeremiah 16:4 Ver. 4. They shall die of grievous deaths,.... Such as the sword, famine, and pestilence. The Targum particularly adds famine. It may be rendered, "deaths of diseases, or sicknesses" {u}; such as are brought on by long sickness and lingering distempers; by which a man consumes gradually, as by famine, an…
349 wordsSECTION 193Jeremiah 16:5
Jeremiah 16:5 Ver. 5. For thus saith the Lord, enter not into the house of mourning,.... On account of his dead relations or neighbours; since they were taken away from the evil to come, and therefore no occasion to mourn for them: moreover, this was to show the certainty of what is before and after said; that, at the…
317 wordsSECTION 194Jeremiah 16:6
Jeremiah 16:6 Ver. 6. Both the great and the small shall die in this land,.... The nobles as well as the common people, high and low, rich and poor; none shall be exempted from the grievous deaths by the sword, famine, and pestilence. They shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them; as before, Jer 16:4, t…
170 wordsSECTION 195Jeremiah 16:7
Jeremiah 16:7 Ver. 7. Neither shall men tear themselves,.... Either their flesh, or their clothes: or, "stretch out" {y}; that is, their hands, and clap them together, and wring them, as persons in great distress do: or "divide", or "break", or "deal unto them" {z}; that is, bread, as at their funeral feasts. Thus the…
292 wordsSECTION 196Jeremiah 16:8
Jeremiah 16:8 Ver. 8. Thou shall not also go into the house of feasting,.... Which it was lawful to do, and which the prophet doubtless had done at other times; but now a time of calamity coming on, it was not proper he should; and the rather he was to abstain from such places, and from pleasant conversation with his …
213 wordsSECTION 197Jeremiah 16:9
Jeremiah 16:9 Ver. 9. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,.... Who is able to do what he here threatens he will, and which he will do, notwithstanding his being the God of Israel; their hearts not being right with him, nor they steadfast in his covenant. Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place…
224 wordsSECTION 198Jeremiah 16:10
Jeremiah 16:10 Ver. 10. And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt show this people all these words,.... Or, "all these things" {a}; which he was forbid to do; as marrying and having children, going into the house of mourning or feasting, with the reasons of all, because of the calamities coming upon them: and they s…
214 wordsSECTION 199Jeremiah 16:11
Jeremiah 16:11 Ver. 11. Then shalt thou say unto them,.... In answer to their questions; not in a general way, but by observing to them particular sins, and those gross ones, they had been guilty of: because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord; that is, his worship, as the Targum; they had quitted his servi…
255 wordsSECTION 200Jeremiah 16:12
Jeremiah 16:12 Ver. 12. And ye have done worse than your fathers,.... Not only committed the same sins, but greater, or, however, attended with more aggravating circumstances; they were wilfully and impudently done, and obstinately persisted in; and therefore deserving of the great evil of punishment pronounced agains…
123 wordsSECTION 201Jeremiah 16:13
Jeremiah 16:13 Ver. 13. Therefore will I call you out of this land,.... By force, and against their wills, whether they would or not, and with abhorrence and contempt: it is to be understood of their captivity, which was but a just punishment for the above sins; for since they had cast off the Lord and his worship, it…
438 wordsSECTION 202Jeremiah 16:14
Jeremiah 16:14 Ver. 14. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... Or nevertheless, "notwithstanding" {d} their sins and iniquities, and the punishment brought upon them for them: or "surely", verily; for Jarchi says it is an oath, with which the Lord swore he would redeem them, though they had behaved so i…
165 wordsSECTION 203Jeremiah 16:15
Jeremiah 16:15 Ver. 15. But the Lord liveth,.... Or they shall swear by the living Lord; or declare his power, as the Targum: "that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north"; that is, from Babylon, which lay north of Judea. The Jews {d} gather from hence, that the land of Israel was higher than all…
368 wordsSECTION 204Jeremiah 16:16
Jeremiah 16:16 Ver. 16. Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them,.... Which some understand of the Egyptians, who lived much on fish, and were much employed in catching them, to which the allusion is thought to be; but rather the Chaldeans are intended, whom God, by the secret ins…
1,987 wordsSECTION 205Jeremiah 17:1
Jeremiah 17:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 17 This chapter is a further prophecy of the destruction of the Jews, with the causes of it, their sins, as their idolatry, which was notorious; of which their own consciences, their altars, and their children, were witnesses, Jer 17:1 for which they are threatened with the spoi…
849 wordsSECTION 206Jeremiah 17:2
Jeremiah 17:2 Ver. 2. Whilst their children remember their altars,.... Which is a further proof of their long continuance in idolatrous practices, and a fresh witness against them; they trained up their children in them; who, when grown up, could not forget them, but imitated them, and went on in the same evil ways. S…
224 wordsSECTION 207Jeremiah 17:3
Jeremiah 17:3 Ver. 3. O my mountain in the midst of the field,.... Meaning either the temple, called the mountain of the house, and of the Lord's house, Mic 3:12, or else Jerusalem, which stood on a hill in the midst of a plain, surrounded with fruitful fields and gardens; or in the midst of a land like a field. The T…
175 wordsSECTION 208Jeremiah 17:4
Jeremiah 17:4 Ver. 4. And thou, even thyself,.... Or, "thou, and in thee" {l}; that is, thou and those that are in thee, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judea; or, "thou even through thyself" {m}; through thine own fault, by reason of thy sins and iniquities: shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave the…
351 wordsSECTION 209Jeremiah 17:5
Jeremiah 17:5 Ver. 5. Thus saith the Lord,.... Here begins a new discourse, or part of one; or, however, another cause or reason of the ruin and destruction of the Jews is suggested; namely, their trust in man, or confidence in the creature, which is resented and condemned: cursed be the man that trusteth in man; as …
423 wordsSECTION 210Jeremiah 17:6
Jeremiah 17:6 Ver. 6. For he shall be like the heath in the desert,.... The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "myrice": and so the Latin interpreter of the Targum; but the word that paraphrase makes use of according to R. Hai, mentioned by Kimchi, signifies something that is thorny without, and eatable within; but thi…
370 wordsSECTION 211Jeremiah 17:7
Jeremiah 17:7 Ver. 7. Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord,.... In the Word of the Lord, as the Targum, in Christ the essential Word of God; see Ps 2:12 who have a spiritual knowledge of him, and so trust in him, Ps 9:10 who have seen the vanity and emptiness of all other objects of trust, there being no salva…
333 wordsSECTION 212Jeremiah 17:8
Jeremiah 17:8 Ver. 8. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,.... Not as a "heath or shrub", but as a "tree", a green olive tree, a palm tree, a cedar in Lebanon, a fruitful flourishing tree; and he is one that really is a tree of righteousness, that is filled with the fruits of righteousness; and not like on…
626 wordsSECTION 213Jeremiah 17:9
Jeremiah 17:9 Ver. 9. The heart is deceitful above all things,.... This is the source of the idolatry and creature confidence of the Jews, sins which were the cause of their ruin; and though what is here said is particularly applicable to their hearts, yet is in general true of the heart of every man; which is "deceit…
6,799 wordsSECTION 214Jeremiah 18:1
Jeremiah 18:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 18 This chapter expresses the sovereign power of God ever his creatures, and his usual methods of dealing with them; it threatens destruction to the Jews for their idolatry; and is closed with the prophet's complaint of his persecutors, and with imprecations upon them. The sover…
330 wordsSECTION 215Jeremiah 18:2
Jeremiah 18:2 Ver. 2. Arise, and go down to the potter's house,.... Which, no doubt, was well known to the prophet; but where it was is not certain. Some think Jeremiah was in the temple, and this house was beneath it, and therefore he is bid to go down to it; but of this there is no certainty, nor even probability: i…
218 wordsSECTION 216Jeremiah 18:3
Jeremiah 18:3 Ver. 3. Then I went down to the potter's house,.... He did as the Lord commanded him; he was obedient to the divine will; he went to hear what the Lord had to say to him there, and to observe such things, from whence he might learn instruction for himself and others: and, behold, he wrought a work on th…
763 wordsSECTION 217Jeremiah 18:4
Jeremiah 18:4 Ver. 4. And the vessel that he made of clay,.... Which is the matter the vessel is made of: was marred in the hand of the potter; while he was working it; either it fell, as the Septuagint version renders it, out of his hands, or from the beam on which it was laid; or was spoiled by some means or other,…
224 wordsSECTION 218Jeremiah 18:5
Jeremiah 18:5 Ver. 5. Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. While he was in the potter's house, and after he had observed his manner of working, and the change he had made in his work, the Lord spoke to him, and applied it in the following manner.…
52 wordsSECTION 219Jeremiah 18:6
Jeremiah 18:6 Ver. 6. O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord,.... Make, and mar, and remake at pleasure? certainly he could. God is a sovereign Being, and has a sovereign and uncontrollable power over his creatures; he has an indisputable right unto them, and can dispose of them as he p…
334 wordsSECTION 220Jeremiah 18:7
Jeremiah 18:7 Ver. 7. [At what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom,.... By way of threatening: or, "the moment I shall speak" {s}, &c; as soon as ever I have declared concerning any people whatever, Jews or Gentiles; that if they go on in their sins, and remain impenitent, and do not t…
138 wordsSECTION 221Jeremiah 18:8
Jeremiah 18:8 Ver. 8. If that nation against whom I have pronounced,.... Such a sentence as this, should immediately, upon the above declaration, do as Nineveh did: turn from their evil; their evil of sin, their evil ways and works, as an evidence of the truth of their repentance for former sins: I will repent of th…
165 wordsSECTION 222Jeremiah 18:9
Jeremiah 18:9 Ver. 9. And [at what] instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom,.... By way of promise on the other hand: or, "and the moment I shall speak", &c. as in Jer 18:7; in favour to a people; signifying, that if they do that which is right and good, and continue therein, it may be expe…
139 wordsSECTION 223Jeremiah 18:10
Jeremiah 18:10 Ver. 10. If it do evil in my sight,.... What is sinful, contrary to the law and will of God, openly and publicly, in a bold and daring manner: that it obey not my voice: in my word, and by my prophets, but turn a deaf ear to them, and slight and despise all instructions, admonitions, and reproofs: the…
179 wordsSECTION 224Jeremiah 18:11
Jeremiah 18:11 Ver. 11. Now therefore go to,.... This is the application of the above general rules of procedure to the people of the Jews, and particularly that which relates to the destruction of a nation or kingdom, and the declaration of it in order to reclaim them: speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitan…
350 wordsSECTION 225Jeremiah 18:12
Jeremiah 18:12 Ver. 12. And they said, there is no hope,.... Or, "but they said" {w}; not that there was no hope of the grace and mercy of God, upon their repentance and reformation, for that is before declared; but that they were so hardened in their sins, so fixed in their wicked courses, and so determined to go on …
329 wordsSECTION 226Jeremiah 18:13
Jeremiah 18:13 Ver. 13. Therefore thus saith the Lord,.... This being the case of the people of the Jews, and they so resolutely bent on their own ways: ask ye among the Heathen; inquire among the nations of the world, the Gentiles that know not the true God, and have not the external revelation of his will, only the…
310 wordsSECTION 227Jeremiah 18:14
Jeremiah 18:14 Ver. 14. Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon, [which cometh] from the rock of the field?.... Lebanon was a mountain on the borders of Judea, the top of which was covered in the summertime with snow, from the whiteness of which it had its name, Lebanon; as the Alps, for the same reason, which lie betwee…
429 wordsSECTION 228Jeremiah 18:15
Jeremiah 18:15 Ver. 15. Because my people hath forgotten me,.... Or, "that they have forgotten me" {z}; this is the horrible thing they have done, which was unheard of among the Gentiles, who were always tenacious of their gods, and the worship of them; and that foolish and unwise thing, which was like leaving pure fl…
2,482 wordsSECTION 229Jeremiah 19:1
Jeremiah 19:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 19 In this chapter is foreshadowed, represented, and confirmed, the destruction of Jerusalem, by the breaking of a potter's vessel the prophet had in his hand; and by the place where he was bid to do this, and did it. The order for it, and the witnesses of it, and the place wher…
502 wordsSECTION 230Jeremiah 19:2
Jeremiah 19:2 Ver. 2. And go forth into the valley of the son of Hinnom,.... To whom it formerly belonged, and so it was called as early as Joshua's time, Jos 15:8; from the faith and abomination of the place, and the shocking torments here exercised, "hell", from hence, in the New Testament, is called "Gehenna": here…
306 wordsSECTION 231Jeremiah 19:3
Jeremiah 19:3 Ver. 3. And say, hear ye the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah,.... The king and his queen; or the king and his sons; or the king and his princes, and nobles; for there was but one king reigning at a time in Judah, and the present king was Zedekiah; see Jer 21:1; and inhabitants of Jerusalem; the elder…
297 wordsSECTION 232Jeremiah 19:4
Jeremiah 19:4 Ver. 4. Because they have forsaken me,.... My worship, as the Targum; they had apostatized from God, relinquished his service, neglected and despised his word and ordinances, and left the religion they had been brought up in, and was agreeable to the will of God. This, with what follows, contain reasons …
351 wordsSECTION 233Jeremiah 19:5
Jeremiah 19:5 Ver. 5. They have also built the high places of Baal,.... Or, they have even built, &c. and so the words explain what is before suggested of their idolatry; these were the temples in which they placed his image, and the altars on which they sacrificed to him; as follows: to burn their sons with fire, [f…
232 wordsSECTION 234Jeremiah 19:6
Jeremiah 19:6 Ver. 6. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... Or, "are coming" {o}; a little while and it will come to pass, what follows; to which a "behold" is prefixed, as calling for attention and admiration, as well as to assure of the certain performance of it: that this place shall no more be cal…
177 wordsSECTION 235Jeremiah 19:7
Jeremiah 19:7 Ver. 7. And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place,.... The counsel which they took in this place and agreed to, in offering their sons and daughters to idols; and which they took with these idols and their priests, from whom they expected assistance and relief; and all their s…
201 wordsSECTION 236Jeremiah 19:8
Jeremiah 19:8 Ver. 8. And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing,.... An hissing to its enemies; an hissing because desolate; when its walls should be broken down, its houses burnt with fire, and its inhabitants put to the sword, or carried captive: everyone that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and hiss;…
115 wordsSECTION 237Jeremiah 19:9
Jeremiah 19:9 Ver. 9. And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters,.... For want of food; the famine should be so great and pressing. Jeremiah, that foretells this, was a witness of it, and has left it on record, La 4:10; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend. T…
208 wordsSECTION 238Jeremiah 19:10
Jeremiah 19:10 Ver. 10. Then shall thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee. The earthen bottle he was bid to get of the potter, Jer 19:1; this he is ordered to break in pieces before the eyes of the ancients of and of the priests that went with him out Jerusalem to Tophet, as an emblem of the e…
159 wordsSECTION 239Jeremiah 19:11
Jeremiah 19:11 Ver. 11. And shalt say unto them, thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... Of armies above and below; and so able to execute what he here threatens: even so will I break this people and this city: the people, the inhabitants of this city, and that itself, by the sword, famine, burning, and captivity: as [one…
347 wordsSECTION 240Jeremiah 19:12
Jeremiah 19:12 Ver. 12. Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof,.... To the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, as was done to the earthen bottle, and as before threatened: and [even], or also, make this city as Tophet; as full of slaughtered men and women as that had been o…
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