Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:8
The mother of the young men - The metropolis or mother city, Jerusalem. read more
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Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:9
She that hath borne seven - She that hath had a numerous offspring; Jerusalem, the parent of so many cities, villages, and families in the land. Seven signifies a complete or full number. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:10
A man of contention to the whole earth! - To the whole Land, to all his countrymen; though he had done nothing to merit their displeasure. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:11
I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil - This was literally fulfilled; see Jeremiah 39:11 , etc. Nebuchadnezzar had given strict charge to Nebuzaradan, commander in chief, to look well to Jeremiah, to do him no harm, and to grant him all the privileges he was pleased to ask. read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:12
Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? - Shall our weak forces be able to oppose and overcome the powers of the Chaldeans? נחשת nechasheth , which we here translate steel, property signifies brass or copper united with tin, which gives it much hardness, and enables it to bear a good edge. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:13
Thy substance - will I give to the spoil without price - Invaluable property shall be given up to thy adversaries. Or, without price - thou shalt have nothing for it in return. read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:7
Verse 7 He confirms here the same truth. The verb which I have rendered in the future may be rendered in the past tense, but I still think it to be a prediction of what was to come. But as to what follows, I have bereaved, I have destroyed, it must, I have no doubt, be referred to time past. He then says, I will fan or scatter them, for the verb. זרה zare, means to scatter, but as with a fan follows, (the word is derived from the same root) I wish to retain the repetition. Then it is, I will... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:8
Verse 8 He says first, Multiplied have been his widows; because the men had been almost all kined, in battle. If the Prophet is the speaker, the particle לי li, is redundant, but if the words be referred to God, we know that the people were in such a way under the government of God that he calls the widows his, as he calls the children his who were born Israelites. But in this there is no great importance, only that if we consider God to be speaker the sense will be this, “Behold, it is by no... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:9
Verse 9 He proceeds with his narrative; he says, that fruitful women had been weakened, not as we see to be often the case, for by frequent child — bearing we know the strength of women is diminished; but here he speaks of the strength which mothers derive from their children; for a numerous offspring is the support of mothers. She then who has many children seems strong, as she is by so many shields defended. As then mothers were wont to place much dependence on their offspring, he says that... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 15:7
I will fan them with a fan - There is no pure grain; all is chaff. In the gates of the land - The places of public justice: and there it shall be seen that the judgments that have fallen upon them have been highly merited. And from these places of fanning they shall go out into their captivity. read more