Jeremiah 8:1 NIV

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8:1

saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah's oracle. bones. Note the Figure of speech Repetitio , for emphasis. and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton , to emphasize each class as responsible for the corruption and apostasy. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:1

JEREMIAH 8THE HARVEST IS ENDED; AND THE SUMMER IS PAST.The title given here comes from Jeremiah 8:20; and it symbolizes the approach of the Chaldean invasion and the hopelessness of any deliverance of the people. All opportunities for repentance and return to God hav been spurned; and the nation is rushing headlong into destruction.Divisions of the chapter, as made by Feinberg,[1] are as follows; the invaders desecrate the graves (Jeremiah 8:1-3); Israel stubbornly continues in idolatry... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:1

Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the Lord— "The Chaldeans shall regard neither the living nor the dead. They shall put the living to death without remorse; and shall break open and defile the tombs of the dead, in hopes of finding riches deposited there. They shall cast them out of their sepulchres, and leave them upon the ground, without staying to collect them together and replace them:" See Bar 2:24-25. Among the insults of the victorious soldiery toward the cities of the enemy, Horace does... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:1

1. The victorious Babylonians were about to violate the sanctuaries of the dead in search of plunder; for ornaments, treasures, and insignia of royalty were usually buried with kings. Or rather, their purpose was to do the greatest dishonor to the dead ( :-). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 8:1

When the invasion from the north came (cf. Jeremiah 7:32-34), the Lord declared, the enemy soldiers would dig up the bodies of kings, princes, priests, prophets, and ordinary citizens (cf. Amos 2:1). Thus they would add insult to injury. The ancients believed that the spirits of unburied people would have no rest in the netherworld. [Note: Graybill, pp. 665-66.] Some of the reason for exhuming these corpses may have been to plunder the graves of the dead, a practice that was common in the... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 8:1-3

Astral worship 8:1-3"The sermon ends (if these verses, still in prose, should be taken with ch. 7) on a note which takes away the last shreds of comfort for those whose hopes or memories are bound up with Jerusalem." [Note: Kidner, p. 51.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:1-22

1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.1. Shall bring out the bones] either from pure wantonness, or in the hope of finding treasure or ornaments of value. 2. Before the sun] the heavenly bodies will not be prevented by all the offerings and devotions that they have received from using their influence to hasten the rotting of the carcases of their sometime worshippers.3. Family] the whole nation: see on Jeremiah 3:14. 4-17. The people are hardened in sin.4. They] RV ’men.’ If a... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 8:1

VIII.(1) At that time.—There is, it is obvious, no break in the discourse, and the time is therefore that of the destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldæans, and of the burial of the slain. Not even the dead should sleep in peace. With an awful re-iteration of the word, so as to give the emphasis as of the toll of a funeral bell, the prophet heaps clause upon clause, “the bones of the kings,” “the bones of the princes,” and so on. The motives of this desecration of the sepulchres might be either... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 8:1-22

Balm in Gilead Jeremiah 8:21-22 The lament of a good man over the sins of his countrymen. I. The Nature of the Malady. 1. Hereditary. 'By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin.' 2. Universal. 'All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.' 3. Dangerous. 'The wages of sin is death.' II. The Means of Cure. The medicine here referred to is a resinous substance obtained from the balsam-tree, which flourished near Gilead, and was far-famed for its healing properties; often... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-22

; Jeremiah 8:1-22; Jeremiah 9:1-26; Jeremiah 10:1-25; Jeremiah 26:1-24In the four chapters which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception {Jeremiah 10:1-16} shall be considered in its place. The historical occasion of the introductory prophecy, {Jeremiah 7:1-15} and the immediate effect of its delivery, are recorded at length in the twenty-sixth chapter of the book, so that in this instance we are happily not left to the uncertainties of... read more

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 8:1

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:1

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 8:1

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 8:1

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 8:1-3

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:1-22

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 8:1

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Jeremiah 8:1-22

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-22

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