エレミヤ書 16:5-6 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:5-9

The house of mourning and the house of feasting alike forbidden. It is made plain upon the surface of this command that the house of mourning and the house of feasting are not forbidden in themselves. The man on whom the injunction is laid is a special man, and he is spoken to in special circumstances. All others may cross the threshold of such houses; the prophet alone must remain outside. This peculiar conduct was meant to emphasize his predictions. Every time there is a funeral or a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:6

Nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald . Both practices are forbidden in the Law ( Deuteronomy 14:1 ; Le 19:28; Deuteronomy 21:5 ), but the prohibition was at any rate unknown to the masses (see, for the former, Jeremiah 41:5 ; Jeremiah 47:5 ; and for the latter, Jeremiah 47:5 ; Isaiah 22:12 , "The Lord Jehovah called … to baldness;" Amos 8:10 ; Micah 1:16 ; Ezekiel 7:18 ). St. Jerome remarks, and incidentally gives a valuable evidence of the tenacity of primitive... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 16:6

Cut themselves ... make themselves bald - Both these practices were strictly forbidden in the Law (marginal references) probably as being pagan customs, but they seem to have remained in common use. By “making bald” is meant shaving a bare patch on the front of the head. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 16:5-6

Jeremiah 16:5-6. Enter not into the house of mourning Or, of a mourning feast, according to the reading in the margin, the word מרזח , occurring also Amos 6:7, and being there rendered a banquet. The sense seems to be, Do not go to comfort such as mourn for any friends or relations dead; their feastings on those occasions being upon a consolatory account: those that die are most happy. For I have taken away my peace from this people That is, I have put a full period to their... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 16:1-21

Symbolic actions (16:1-21)Again God instructs his prophet concerning certain courses of action designed to attract the people’s attention. Jeremiah is to be a living reminder to the Judeans of what will happen to them if they do not repent. Firstly, he is not to marry or have children, as a grim warning to people that those with families will have greater distress when the final slaughter comes (16:1-4). Secondly, he is not to attend any funeral, as a warning that when Judah falls there will be... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 16:5

taken away. Hebrew. 'asaph. A Homonym, with two meanings: (1) to protect, or heal (Numbers 12:14 , Numbers 12:15 ; 2 Kings 5:6 . Psalms 27:10 ); (2) to snatch away (Psalms 26:9 . Psalms 16:5 ). peace: or, blessing. saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah's oracle. mercies = compassions, or tender mercies. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 16:6

cut themselves . . . make . . . bald. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:28 ; Leviticus 21:5 .Deuteronomy 14:1; Deuteronomy 14:1 ). Compare Jeremiah 41:5 ; Jeremiah 47:5 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:5

FUNERAL CELEBRATIONS ALSO FORBIDDEN"For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even loving kindness and tender mercies. Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them; neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 16:6

Jeremiah 16:6. Nor cut themselves— The cutting of their own flesh, as a mark of grief for their deceased friends and relations, though expressly forbidden to the Jews by the law, Leviticus 19:28. Deu 14:1 appears from hence to have been still in use among them as well as among their neighbours, on this and other occasions of great mourning and affliction. See ch. Jer 41:5 and compare chap. Jer 47:5 Jeremiah 48:37. The like practice attendant on funeral obsequies has been found among people... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 16:5

5. (Ezekiel 24:17; Ezekiel 24:22; Ezekiel 24:23). house of mourning— (Ezekiel 24:23- :). Margin, "mourning-feast"; such feasts were usual at funerals. The Hebrew means, in Ezekiel 24:23- :, the cry of joy at a banquet; here, and Ezekiel 24:23- :, the cry of sorrow. read more