E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 16:16
many fishers . . . hunters. Reference to Judah's enemies. Compare Jeremiah 16:18 . Amos 4:2 .Ezekiel 12:13 .Habakkuk 1:14 . read more
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E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:16
METAPHOR OF THE FISHERS AND THE HUNTERS"Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Jehovah, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks. For mine eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is there iniquity concealed from mine eyes. And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 16:16
Jeremiah 16:16. Behold, I will send for many fishers— It is common with the sacred writers to represent enemies and oppressors under the metaphor of fishers and hunters, because they use all the methods of open force and secret stratagem, to make men their prey. These two similitudes imply, that the Chaldeans should make an entire conquest of their whole land, and strip it of its riches and inhabitants. Nothing can be more absurd than the imagination of some, that by these fishermen are meant... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 16:16
16. send for—translate, "I will send many"; "I will give the commission to many" (2 Chronicles 17:7). fishers . . . hunters—successive invaders of Judea (Amos 4:2; Habakkuk 1:14; Habakkuk 1:15). So "net" (Ezekiel 12:13). As to "hunters," see Genesis 10:9; Micah 7:2. The Chaldees were famous in hunting, as the Egyptians, the other enemy of Judea, were in fishing. "Fishers" expresses the ease of their victory over the Jews as that of the angler over fishes; "hunters," the keenness of their... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 16:14-21
Future blessings following imminent judgment 16:14-21The following three pericopes bracket the assurance of imminent judgment for Judah with promises of distant blessing for Israel and the nations. This passage promises deliverance from the captivity for the Israelites. It appears again later in Jeremiah almost verbatim (Jeremiah 23:7-8). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 16:16
The Lord was going to summon fishermen (cf. Ezekiel 12:13; Ezekiel 29:4-5; Amos 4:2; Habakkuk 1:14-17) and hunters (cf. Amos 9:1-4) to round up His people and take them as prey, even those who were in hiding. These agents would be the Babylonian invaders."When Jesus used the metaphor of fishermen to describe the mission of his disciples (see Mark 1:17; Matthew 4:19), he was reversing its meaning from that intended by Jeremiah. Jeremiah’s fishers caught men for judgment; Jesus’ fishers caught... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:1-18
Jeremiah’s Ninth Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiakim?). Punishment of Judah by Pestilence and Exile.It is clear from Jeremiah 17:15, in which the people challenge the prophet to point to a fulfilment of his prophecies of woe, that it is at any rate earlier than the capture of Jerusalem at the end of Jehoiachin’s reign. read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:1-21
1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet’s lot.6. Nor cut themselves] in token of mourning: cp. Jeremiah 47:5. 7. Tear themselves for them] RV ’break bread for them.’ The reference here and in the rest of the v. is to the custom that the friends should urge the mourners to eat and drink: cp. 2 Samuel 3:35; 2 Samuel 12:16; Proverbs 31:6.12. Imagination] cp. Jeremiah 3:17. 13. There shall ye serve other gods] if you please. Spoken ironically.14-21. The deliverance will be in... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 16:16
(16) I will send for many fishers . . .—The words refer to the threat, not to the promise. The “fishers,” as in Amos 4:2; Habakkuk 1:15, are the invading nations, surrounding Judah and Jerusalem as with a drag-net, and allowing none to escape. The process is described under this very name of “drag-netting” the country by Herodotus (iii. 149, 6:31), as applied by the army of Xerxes to Samos, Chios, Tenedos, and other islands. The application of the words either to the gathering of the people... read more
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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