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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, which refuse to hear my words ,.... Sent by the prophets, to whom they turned a deaf ear; and though they pressed them, and importunately desired them to give them a hearing, they refused it; and this showed them to be a bad people, very degenerate and wicked; and which further appears by what follows: which walk in the imagination of their heart ; which was evil, stubborn, and rebellious, see Jeremiah 7:24 , and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:11

For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man ,.... Being girt tight unto him: so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel, and the whole house of Judah ; whom he chose above all people, and caused to approach unto him, and dwell in his courts; whom he favoured with his presence, and encouraged them to follow after him, and cleave to him in faith and affection, and with full purpose of heart; so that they were a people near unto him as a man's girdle is to his loins:... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:1

Thus saith the Lord unto me - This discourse is supposed to have been delivered under the reign of Jeconiah, the son and successor of Jehoiakim, who came to the throne in the eighteenth year of his age; when the Chaldean generals had encamped near to Jerusalem, but did not besiege it in form till Nebuchadnezzar came up with the great body of the army. In these circumstances the prophet predicts the captivity; and, by a symbolical representation of a rotten girdle, shows the people their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:4

Go to Euphrates, and hide it there - Intending to point out, by this distant place, the country into which they were to be carried away captive. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:7

And behold, the girdle was marred; it was profitable for nothing - This symbolically represented the state of the Jews: they were corrupt and abominable; and God, by sending them into captivity, "marred the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem," Jeremiah 13:9 . read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:1

Verse 1 I have said that there is here a new prophecy; for the Prophet is said to buy for himself a girdle or a belt, or, according to some, a truss or breeches; and as mention is made of linen, this opinion may be probable; but אזור, asur, means not only the breeches which they then wore, but also a girdle or belt, according to what Isaiah says, when, speaking figuratively of Christ’s kingdom, that faithfulness would be the girdle of his loins. (Isaiah 11:5) It, may here, however, be taken for... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:7

Verse 7 The Prophet, by saying that he went to the Euphrates, confirms what he had narrated: he did not indeed mean that he actually went there, but his object was to give the Jews a vivid representation. It is then what Rhetorians call a scene presented to the view; though the place is not changed, yet the thing is set before the eyes by a lively description. (71) Thus the Prophet, as the Jews were deaf, exhibited to their view what they would not hear. This is the reason why he says that he... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:9

Verse 9 As to the application of the Prophecy, the Prophet then distinctly describes it; but he sets forth with sufficient clearness the main point, when he says, Thus will I mar the stateliness ( altitudinem , the altitude or height) of Judah and the great stateliness of Jerusalem Other interpreters unanimously render the word, pride; but as גאון gaun, may be taken in two senses, it means here, I have no doubt, excellency, and this will appear more fully from what follows. (72) The word then... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:10

Verse 10 The Prophet said, according to what we observed yesterday, that the people would be like the belt which he had hidden in a hole and found putrified: but now the cause is expressed why God had resolved to treat them with so much severity. He then says that he would be an avenger, because the Jews had refused to obey his voice, and preferred their own inventions in walking after the hardness, or the wickedness of their own heart We hence see that the cause of this calamity was, that the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:11

Verse 11 He confirms what we noticed yesterday, — that the Jews entertained a foolish confidence, and promised themselves perpetual happiness, because God had chosen them as his people. This indeed would have been a perpetual glory to them, had they not violated their pledged faith; but their defection rendered void God’s covenant as far as they were concerned: for though God never suffered his faithfulness to fail, however false and perfidious they were, yet the adoption from which they had... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:11

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