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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 11:18

Rather, “gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it.” Jeremiah shows Jeremiah 11:18-23, that the general conspiracy of the people against Yahweh and the special plot against himself was revealed to him by God. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 11:18-19

Jeremiah 11:18-19. And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, &c. This relates to the ill designs which the men of Anathoth had contrived against the prophet, which he here saith God had revealed to him. See the following verses. But I was like a lamb or an ox, &c. A proverbial speech, expressing a false security, or insensibility of danger. Dr. Waterland, in agreement with the Vulgate, Bochart, and Houbigant, reads this clause, But I was like a gentle lamb; and Blaney, For I... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 11:18-23

A plot against Jeremiah (11:18-23)The people of Anathoth, Jeremiah’s home town, had become angry with Jeremiah. They did not like his uncompromising opposition to their false religious practices and his constant predictions of certain judgment. When God warned Jeremiah that they were plotting to kill him, Jeremiah cried to God for help (18-21). God now replies with a promise that he will protect Jeremiah and punish his would-be murderers (22-23). read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 11:18

hath given = gave. Jeremiah a type of Messiah. See App-85 . know = knew. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 11:18

"And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings."We have already observed that Jeremiah's long life was most certainly a miracle. God preserved and protected him in a most unusual manner. The conspiracy (Jeremiah 11:9) recognized that Jeremiah was an obstacle in the way of their purpose completely to restore total idolatry in Israel; and they doubtless could have killed the unsuspecting Jeremiah if God had not warned and protected him. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 11:18-19

Jeremiah 11:18-19. The Lord hath given me knowledge— It is generally agreed by the commentators, that Jeremiah here speaks of his own sufferings as figurative of those of the Messiah. All the churches agree, says St. Jerome, that these words and the following respect Jesus Christ and his passion. It was against his life that they formed their designs: he was the true lamb, meek and innocent; he it was who was fastened to the cross. Jeremiah is here a figure of the divine Saviour; he here... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 11:18

18, 19. Jeremiah here digresses to notice the attempt on his life plotted by his townsmen of Anathoth. He had no suspicion of it, until Jehovah revealed it to him (Jeremiah 12:6). the Lord . . . thou—The change of person from the third to the second accords with the excited feelings of the prophet. then—when I was in peril of my life. their doings—those of the men of Anathoth. His thus alluding to them, before he has mentioned their name, is due to his excitement. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 11:18

Jeremiah announced that the Lord had revealed the fate of the Judahites to him, and had given him insight into his people’s deeds ("plots" in context). read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 11:1-23

1-14. Punishment must follow faithlessness.3. Cursed, etc.] cp. the language of the warnings in Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 27:15-26), a book with which this passage has other features in common. 4. The iron furnace] the brickkilns of the bondage in Egypt (Exodus 1:14) may have given rise to the figure as expressive of affliction. 6. The cities of Judah] Jeremiah may have accompanied Josiah in the journey which he made to Bethel and to the cities of Samaria for the overthrow of idolatry (2 Kings... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 11:18

(18) And the Lord hath given me knowledge.—A new section opens abruptly, and the prophet speaks no longer of the sins of Israel and Judah at large, but of the “doings” of his own townsmen, of their plots against his life. Unless this is altogether a distinct fragment, connected, possibly, with Jeremiah 9:8, the abruptness suggests the inference that the plots of the men of Anathoth against him had suddenly been brought under his notice. read more