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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Jeremiah
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 357,402 words · 646 reading sections
Jeremiah 19:13
Jeremiah 19:13 Ver. 13. And the houses of Jerusalem,.... Where the common people dwelt:and the houses of the kings of Judah; the palaces of the king, princes, and nobles of Judah, one as well as another:shall be defiled os Tophet; as that was defiled with the bodies and bones of the slain, and with the faith of the ci…
699 wordsSECTION 242Jeremiah 20:1
Jeremiah 20:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 20 This chapter gives an account of the usage that Jeremiah met with from many for his prophecies, and the effect it had upon him. He was smitten and put in the stocks by Pashur the priest, who released him the next day, Jer 20:1; upon which he prophesies again of the delivery o…
515 wordsSECTION 243Jeremiah 20:2
Jeremiah 20:2 Ver. 2. Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet,.... Either with his fist, or with a rod, while he was prophesying, to stop his mouth, and hinder him from going on, and to show his resentment, and influence, the people not to believe him; or he ordered him to be smitten and scourged by some inferior offic…
342 wordsSECTION 244Jeremiah 20:3
Jeremiah 20:3 Ver. 3. And it came to pass on the morrow,.... After the prophet was put into the stocks; so that he was there all night: that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks; either to bring him before the priests, or the sanhedrim, to be examined; or in order to dismiss him, being either admonished by…
304 wordsSECTION 245Jeremiah 20:4
Jeremiah 20:4 Ver. 4. For thus saith the, Lord, behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends,.... This is an interpretation of the name given, "Magormissabib": and shows that it was not a mere name he had, but that he should be in fact what that signifies; his conscience should be filled with t…
289 wordsSECTION 246Jeremiah 20:5
Jeremiah 20:5 Ver. 5. Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city,.... The fortifications of it; its towers, as the Syriac version; the riches of it, as the Targum; all its magazines and stores, in which its strength lay: and all the labours thereof; all the fruit of their labours; all their wealth and ric…
164 wordsSECTION 247Jeremiah 20:6
Jeremiah 20:6 Ver. 6. And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house, shall go into captivity,.... Particularly he and his family should not escape; whoever did: and thou shalt come to Babylon; being brought there, though sore against his will: and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there; even in a defi…
164 wordsSECTION 248Jeremiah 20:7
Jeremiah 20:7 Ver. 7. O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived,.... What follows from hence to the end of the chapter is thought to have been said by the prophet, when in the stocks, or in prison, and shows mixture of grace and corruption in him; a struggle between flesh and spirit, and the force of a temptat…
604 wordsSECTION 249Jeremiah 20:8
Jeremiah 20:8 Ver. 8. For since I spake, I cried out,.... Or, "when I speak, I cry" {a}; whensoever I speak in the name of the Lord, and deliver message from him to the people, I lift up my voice and cry aloud, that all may hear and understand; and as showing zeal, fervour, and diligence: or, "I cry" with grief and tr…
330 wordsSECTION 250Jeremiah 20:9
Jeremiah 20:9 Ver. 9. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name,.... Not that he publicly said this before his enemies, or privately to his friends, but he said it in his heart; he thought, nay, resolved, within himself, to prophesy no more; since no credit was given to him, but conte…
400 wordsSECTION 251Jeremiah 20:10
Jeremiah 20:10 Ver. 10. For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side,.... It was brought to the prophet's ears by some of his friends, how he was defamed by many, and these great and mighty ones, as the word also signifies; how his character was aspersed; his good name taken away; and false and scandalous repo…
2,378 wordsSECTION 252Jeremiah 21:1
Jeremiah 21:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 21 This chapter contains Jeremiah's answer to King Zedekiah's message to him; in which he assures him of the destruction of the city of Jerusalem, and gives advice both to the people and the king. The names of the persons sent to him are mentioned, Jer 21:1; and the errand they …
552 wordsSECTION 253Jeremiah 21:2
Jeremiah 21:2 Ver. 2. Inquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us,.... Or, "seek the Lord now for us" {n}; seek the Lord by prayer and supplication for me and my people, for this city and the inhabitants of it; entreat him that he would appear for us, and deliver us out of the hands of the enemy; for this they said in th…
282 wordsSECTION 254Jeremiah 21:3
Jeremiah 21:3 Ver. 3. Then said Jeremiah unto them,.... The two priests, Pashur and Zephaniah, after he had sought the Lord, and knew his mind and will: thus shall ye say to Zedekiah; by whom they were sent.…
39 wordsSECTION 255Jeremiah 21:4
Jeremiah 21:4 Ver. 4. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,.... Who had been, still was, and would be, Israel's God, even the God of such who are Israelites indeed; though he should, as he would, give up the present generation to ruin and destruction; they having by their sins forfeited his care and protection of them; a…
315 wordsSECTION 256Jeremiah 21:5
Jeremiah 21:5 Ver. 5. And myself will fight against you,.... So far from being entreated to do for them according to his wondrous works in times past, as their friend; that he will set himself against them as their enemy; and sad it is to have God for an enemy: if God be for a people, none can be against them to do th…
231 wordsSECTION 257Jeremiah 21:6
Jeremiah 21:6 Ver. 6. And I will smite the inhabitants of this city,.... With one or other of his arrows after mentioned: or, "them that abide in this city" {o}; that do not go out of it, and surrender themselves to the king of Babylon; see Jer 21:9; both man and beast; the latter for the sin of the former; particula…
159 wordsSECTION 258Jeremiah 21:7
Jeremiah 21:7 Ver. 7. And afterwards, saith the Lord God,.... After there should be so great a mortality among men and beasts: I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants; the king himself shall not escape; though he shall not die by the pestilence, or famine, or sword, yet he shall fall into the hands of…
301 wordsSECTION 259Jeremiah 21:8
Jeremiah 21:8 Ver. 8. And unto the people thou shalt say, thus saith the Lord,.... These are the words, not of the prophet to the messengers of the king, ordering or advising them what they each of them should say to the people; for the message by them is finished; but they are the words of the Lord to the prophet, di…
139 wordsSECTION 260Jeremiah 21:9
Jeremiah 21:9 Ver. 9. He that abideth in this city,.... Imagining himself safe there; not fearing its being taken by the king of Babylon; though it was so often foretold by the prophet of the Lord that it should: shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: by the first of these, in sallying out …
191 wordsSECTION 261Jeremiah 21:10
Jeremiah 21:10 Ver. 10. For I have set my face against this city,.... Or "my fury", as the Targum; their sins had provoked the eyes of his glory; he was wroth with them, and determined to cut them off; his mind was set against them, and upon their ruin; and there was no turning him from it: for evil, and not for good…
182 wordsSECTION 262Jeremiah 21:11
Jeremiah 21:11 Ver. 11. And touching the house of the king of Judah, [say],.... Or "to the house of the king of Judah" {p}; that is, his palace, as Calvin understands it; go to it, and there say as follows, as in Jer 22:1; and some think that this part of the chapter belongs to that, and was not delivered at the time …
217 wordsSECTION 263Jeremiah 21:12
Jeremiah 21:12 Ver. 12. O house of David, thus saith the Lord,.... This appellation is made use of to put them in mind of their descent, and to observe to them how much it became them to follow the example of so illustrious an ancestor, from whom they had the honour to descend; by doing judgment and justice as he did,…
884 wordsSECTION 264Jeremiah 22:1
Jeremiah 22:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 22 This chapter is a prophecy of what should befall the sons of Josiah, Jehoahaz or Shallum; Jehoiakim and Jeconiah. It begins with an exhortation to the then reigning prince, Jehoiakim, his family and court, to do justice, relieve the oppressed, and refrain from doing injury to…
452 wordsSECTION 265Jeremiah 22:2
Jeremiah 22:2 Ver. 2. And say, hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah,.... O Jehoiakim king of Judah, hear the word of the King of kings; listen to it, and obey it, as kings ought to do; and it is for their good, as well as it is their duty, so to do: that sittest upon the throne of David; whom he mentions, to pu…
170 wordsSECTION 266Jeremiah 22:3
Jeremiah 22:3 Ver. 3. Thus saith the Lord, execute ye judgment and righteousness,.... Judge righteous Judgment; give the cause to whom it belongs, without respect of persons, and without a bribe or corruption; do no unrighteousness to any, by withholding from them what is due unto them, which was what this prince was …
248 wordsSECTION 267Jeremiah 22:4
Jeremiah 22:4 Ver. 4. For if ye do this thing indeed,.... Or, "in doing do this word" {y}; diligently and carefully attend to this word of exhortation, and constantly perform the duties required: then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David; or, upon the throne for David…
217 wordsSECTION 268Jeremiah 22:5
Jeremiah 22:5 Ver. 5. But if ye will not hear these words,.... Will give no attention, and yield no obedience to them: I swear by myself, saith the Lord; and by a greater he cannot swear; and that is the reason why he swears by himself, Heb 6:13; and as, when he swears to a promise, it shows the immutability of it, t…
115 wordsSECTION 269Jeremiah 22:6
Jeremiah 22:6 Ver. 6. For thus saith the Lord unto the king's house of Judah,.... That is, to the family of the king of Judah; though it may be rendered, "concerning the house of the king of Judah" {z}; and so refer to his palace as before: thou [art] Gilead unto me, [and] the head of Lebanon; or, though like to Gile…
320 wordsSECTION 270Jeremiah 22:7
Jeremiah 22:7 Ver. 7. And I will prepare destroyers against thee,.... The Chaldeans, men of savage dispositions, bent upon the destruction of their neighbours; and who had already destroyed many nations, and so fit instruments for such service, as after mentioned; and who yet did not come merely of themselves, but wer…
311 wordsSECTION 271Jeremiah 22:8
Jeremiah 22:8 Ver. 8. And many nations shall pass by this city,.... After it is burned down and destroyed; that is, people out of many nations travelling that way: and they shall say every man to his neighbour; as in company together, passing along the ruined walls of the city: wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto…
136 wordsSECTION 272Jeremiah 22:9
Jeremiah 22:9 Ver. 9. Then they shall answer,.... Or, "it shall be answered" {e}; by some in company, acquainted with the history of this people: because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God; the Lord was the God of these people; he chose them for his peculiar people, and distinguished them by his fa…
277 wordsSECTION 273Jeremiah 22:10
Jeremiah 22:10 Ver. 10. Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him,.... Not Jehoiakim, as Jarchi and Kimchi; but King Josiah, slain by Pharaohnecho; who, being a pious prince, a good king, and very useful, and much beloved by his people, great lamentation was made for him by them, and by the prophet also; but now he…
304 wordsSECTION 274Jeremiah 22:11
Jeremiah 22:11 Ver. 11. For thus saith the Lord touching Shallum,.... Not Shallum the fourth son of Josiah, 1Ch 3:15; for it is not likely that he should immediately succeed his father; nor Zedekiah, as Jarchi; nor Jeconiah, as Kimchi; but Jehoahaz, as Aben Ezra; who seems to have had several names, as Johanan, 1Ch 3:…
154 wordsSECTION 275Jeremiah 22:12
Jeremiah 22:12 Ver. 12. But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive,.... Even in Egypt, where Pharaohnecho and his army carried him captive, as before observed: and he shall see his land no more; the land of Judah, where he was born, and over which he had been king: this is repeated to show the ce…
151 wordsSECTION 276Jeremiah 22:13
Jeremiah 22:13 Ver. 13. Woe unto him that buildeth his house by righteousness, and his chambers by wrong,.... This respects Jehoiakim, the then reigning king; who, not content with the palace the kings of Judah before him had lived in, built another; or however enlarged that, and made great alterations in it; but this…
4,778 wordsSECTION 277Jeremiah 23:1
Jeremiah 23:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 23 This chapter contains threatenings to the Jewish governors, and to their priests and prophets, on account of their manifold sins; intermixed with gracious promises to the Lord's people, and particularly with a famous promise of the Messiah. The pastors or governors of Israel …
614 wordsSECTION 278Jeremiah 23:2
Jeremiah 23:2 Ver. 2. Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel,.... The covenant God of that people, who are Called his sheep, and the sheep of his pasture; having made a covenant with their fathers, and provided a good pasture for them, the land of Israel, where they enjoyed all blessings, civil and religious, and…
313 wordsSECTION 279Jeremiah 23:3
Jeremiah 23:3 Ver. 3. And I will gather the remnant of my flock, out of all countries,.... Such of them as did not perish by the sword, famine, and pestilence, or died not in captivity, and chose not to remain in the kingdom where they were; for all did not return upon the edict of Cyrus: though some think this is to …
286 wordsSECTION 280Jeremiah 23:4
Jeremiah 23:4 Ver. 4. And I will set shepherds over them, which shall feed them,.... Good shepherds, rulers and governors, that shall rule them with wholesome laws, and protect and defend them; such as Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, and others, after the captivity: or Christian kings and princes, when the Gospel came to be pub…
244 wordsSECTION 281Jeremiah 23:5
Jeremiah 23:5 Ver. 5. Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... Or, "are coming" {d}; and will soon be here, a few days, months, and years more; so it was usual with the prophets to represent the coming of Christ as near at hand, to comfort the saints, and keep up their faith and expectation of him, and especially th…
564 wordsSECTION 282Jeremiah 23:6
Jeremiah 23:6 Ver. 6. In his days Judah shall be saved,.... In the days of the Messiah, the righteous Branch, and reigning prosperous King, not only the people of the Jews, God's elect among them, but all that truly embrace him, and confess him, as Judah's name signifies, shall be saved from all their sins; from the l…
695 wordsSECTION 283Jeremiah 23:7
Jeremiah 23:7 Ver. 7. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... Or, "are coming" {i}; and will begin to take place in a little time, even upon the Jews' return from Babylon; and reached to the times of Christ, to which they have a special regard; and include the whole Gospel dispensation, even the latter d…
224 wordsSECTION 284Jeremiah 23:8
Jeremiah 23:8 Ver. 8. But, the Lord liveth,.... Or they shall swear by the living God; or declare the power of the Lord, as the Targum, in their redemption by the Messiah: which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them: which r…
240 wordsSECTION 285Jeremiah 23:9
Jeremiah 23:9 Ver. 9. Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets,.... The false prophets, as the Targum rightly interprets it. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "to the prophets"; and makes a stop there; which agrees with the original {l}; so that it may be considered as the title of what follows; it b…
376 wordsSECTION 286Jeremiah 23:10
Jeremiah 23:10 Ver. 10. For the land is full of adulterers,.... Of such as were guilty of corporeal adultery, and of spiritual adultery, which is idolatry. Now, though in this, and in the following verses, the prophet describes the men of his generation, both ecclesiastics and laics; yet also so as to have regard to t…
9,517 wordsSECTION 287Jeremiah 24:1
Jeremiah 24:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 24 This chapter contains a vision of two baskets of figs, representing the Jews both in captivity, and at Jerusalem. The vision is declared, Jer 24:1; where both time and place are pointed at, in which the vision was seen, and the nature of the figs described, and what passed be…
801 wordsSECTION 288Jeremiah 24:2
Jeremiah 24:2 Ver. 2. One basket [had] very good figs, [even] like the figs [that are] first ripe,.... As there are some figs that are ripe sooner than others, and which are always the most desirable and acceptable; and such were they that were presented to the Lord, Mic 7:1; these signified those that were carried ca…
268 wordsSECTION 289Jeremiah 24:3
Jeremiah 24:3 Ver. 3. Then said the Lord unto me, what seest thou, Jeremiah?.... This question is put, in order that, upon his answer to it, he might have an explication of the vision: and I said, figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil; or "so bad", or "because…
513 wordsSECTION 290Jeremiah 24:4
Jeremiah 24:4 Ver. 4. Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. As follows; where an explanation is given of the above vision, to which this is a transition.…
32 wordsSECTION 291Jeremiah 24:5
Jeremiah 24:5 Ver. 5. Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel,.... Of all the tribes of Israel; of the ten tribes that had been carried captive long ago by the king of Assyria; and of the other two tribes, part of whom were in Babylon, and the other in Judea, who were not wholly cut off by the Lord; but he still had a …
338 wordsSECTION 292Jeremiah 24:6
Jeremiah 24:6 Ver. 6. For I will set mine eyes upon them for good,.... His eyes of omniscience, providence, and grace; to communicate good things to them; to take care of them in the furnace of affliction, that they were not lost, but made the better; to watch over them, protect and defend them; to deliver them out of…
196 wordsSECTION 293Jeremiah 24:7
Jeremiah 24:7 Ver. 7. And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the Lord,.... God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, abundant in goodness and truth, pardoning iniquity, transgression, and sin; the unchangeable Jehovah; the everlasting I AM; a covenant keeping God; faithful and true to his promises; abl…
357 wordsSECTION 294Jeremiah 24:8
Jeremiah 24:8 Ver. 8. And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil,.... Here follows an explication of the evil figs, and an application of them to the wicked Jews: surely thus saith the Lord, so will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah; who was then the reigning king of Judah, Jeconiah's father's brot…
193 wordsSECTION 295Jeremiah 24:9
Jeremiah 24:9 Ver. 9. And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for [their] hurt,.... Jeconiah and the captives with him were only carried into Babylon; but these should be scattered one from another into the several parts of the world. The former were carried captive for their good, and…
190 wordsSECTION 296Jeremiah 24:10
Jeremiah 24:10 Ver. 10. And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them,.... Meaning not in other lands, where they should be driven, but while in their own land, by which many should perish; and the rest that escaped these dreadful judgments should be carried captive. The Targum is, "I will sen…
138 wordsSECTION 297Jeremiah 25:1
Jeremiah 25:1 INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 25 This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Judea by the king of Babylon; and also of Babylon itself, after the Jews' captivity of seventy years; and likewise of all the nations round about. The date of this prophecy is in Jer 25:1; when the prophet puts the Jews i…
413 wordsSECTION 298Jeremiah 25:2
Jeremiah 25:2 Ver. 2. The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah,.... Perhaps at one of the three feasts, at which all the males appeared in Jerusalem; for it cannot be thought that he went up and down throughout all parts of the land to deliver this prophecy, but to as many of them as he found …
97 wordsSECTION 299Jeremiah 25:3
Jeremiah 25:3 Ver. 3. From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day,.... The year in which Jeremiah began to prophesy, Jer 1:2; (that [is], the three and twentieth year); for Josiah reigned one and thirty years; so that Jeremiah prophesied nineteen years in his reign; and now it…
198 wordsSECTION 300Jeremiah 25:4
Jeremiah 25:4 Ver. 4. And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets,.... Not only him, but many others, Micah, Nahum, Zephaniah, and others: rising early and sending [them]; not only the prophet, but the Lord himself is said to rise early, and send his prophets to them; which denotes his great care an…
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