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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:5-7

The Second Sign: Abstention From Mourning (Jeremiah 16:5-7 ). The second sign was to be seen as the abstention from mourning and from attendance at funerals. Proper mourning for the dead was again seen as an essential part of life. Not to do so would have been severely frowned on, for true mourning was seen as contributing to the well-being and continuity of the whole family. It ensured proper farewells, and proper succession, enabled release of emotions, and demonstrated proper respect for... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:1-21

Jeremiah 16:1 to Jeremiah 17:18 . The Coming Distress a Penalty for Sin.— The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows ( cf. 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be too common even for due mourning and burial. He is to stand aloof from the ordinary expressions of grief ( Jeremiah 16:5-Judges :) or social joy ( Jeremiah 16:8 f.; cf. Jeremiah 7:34), as a sign that Yahweh will make both to cease in the universal disaster. The reason for this great suffering... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 16:7

Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning to comfort them for the dead: if we allow our translation here of the word כּ֣וֹס with the word supplied, themselves, it will be hard to give a tolerable sense of these words, for then tearing is the same with the cutting themselves mentioned in the former verse, which though it might be as a passionate expression of the person’s sorrow that did it, yet how it should comfort the friends of the deceased will be very hard to conceive. But the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 16:1-21

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter. Chapters 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the capture of Jerusalem, which occurred at the close of Jehoiakim’s career. Jehoiakim was slain in the eleventh year of his reign, i.e., in common chronology, B C. 597, or in Assyrian chronology, B.C. 578. There are allusions in the prophecy which lead to the conclusion that it was delivered during this reign;... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 16:1-21

Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21 .Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16:The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place ( Jeremiah 16:1-2 ).So Jeremiah is commanded by God not to marry, and the reason for the commandment not to marry or not to have children was to be a sign to the people of the terrible times that were... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 16:1-21

Jeremiah 16:2 . Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place. The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour gives the like intimation when the Romans were about to destroy Jerusalem. “Blessed is the womb that never bare, and the paps that never gave suck.” St. Paul, during the Neronean persecution, gives much the same advice. 1 Corinthians 7:26. If a minister at home, or a missionary abroad, shall see... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 16:7

Jer 16:7 Neither shall [men] tear [themselves] for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall [men] give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. Ver. 7. Neither shall men tear themselves for them. ] Or, Neither shall they deal them bread in mourning to comfort any for the dead. Compare Ezekiel 24:17 . Of feasting at funerals mention is made by Herodotus, Cicero, Lucian, Pliny, Clement, and Chrysostom. See Jeremiah 16:5 . Neither shall men... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 16:7

tear themselves: or, break bread, Deuteronomy 26:14, Job 42:11, Ezekiel 24:17, Hosea 9:4 cup: Proverbs 31:6, Proverbs 31:7 Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 3:35 - cause Jeremiah 16:5 - Enter Joel 2:1 - let Luke 22:17 - took read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Jeremiah 16:7

Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.Deal bread — It was a custom among them, when they had any friend, that had lost his relations, to send them some meat (for among the Hebrews all things they ate were called bread) and then to go and sup with them, and speak comfortably to them.The cup — They were also wont to send wine, that they might forget... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:1-9

THE PROPHET’S DUTY IN VIEW OF THE COMING JUDGMENT, Jeremiah 16:1-9. Some prefer to separate this chapter and the next from the one immediately preceding, and class them as a distinct prophecy. The general drift, however, is manifestly the same, and hence it seems better to throw them into the same group. But as we have here only a summary of what may have been originally many distinct discourses, it is proper to recognise a distinct individuality in the various portions. In these chapters the... read more