Egypt is now like a heifer that makes a great bellowing, but the time shall come when she shall make a lesser noise, like the hissing of a serpent when it seeth itself set upon. For the Chaldeans shall come with a great army, armed with battle-axes, as if they came to fell down some wood in a forest or wood. read more
Egypt is compared to a forest, either for the multitude of cities or of people in that country; and to a thick forest, because as it is a hard thing to make one’s way through a forest, so it was judged as hard for an enemy to make his way into that country: in human probability Egypt could not be searched, yet (saith God) the Chaldeans shall cut down this forest, and it shall be no more to them than for hewers of wood, with tools fitted for the purpose, to make their way through a forest. For... read more
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter.—First Part: Jeremiah 46:1-12, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written at Jerusalem, immediately before the battle of Charchemish. This section forms a natural addendum to chap. 25. Vide notes there on Chronology, National Affairs, and Contemporaneous History; also on chaps. 7 and 10. Second Part: Jeremiah 46:18-28, is a prophecy uttered in Egypt after the migration of the remnant thither, carrying Jeremiah with them, and should be... read more
Let's turn now in our Bibles to Jeremiah 46:1-28 .Beginning with chapter 45 we came into the sixth part or section of the book of Jeremiah. And this sixth section is comprised of miscellaneous prophecies that are directed mainly to those nations that were around Israel. And so as we get into chapter 46, we find the introduction to these series of prophecies as he addresses them to the Gentiles, the Gentile kingdoms. And so God is going to address Himself to those Gentile nations now roundabout... read more
Jeremiah 46:1 . The Gentiles. The succeeding six chapters ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jeremiah 46:6 . They shall stumble and fall by the river Euphrates. In the great battle after king Josiah had been slain, the Egyptians claimed the victory; but now, after five years, the Egyptians were defeated, and could never meet the Assyrians with success. In this battle the swift flee away, as... read more
Jer 46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. Ver. 22. The voice thereof (of Egypt) shall go like a serpent.] a Submissa voce loquetur. She shall hiss and whisper, as being daunted and damped, scarce able to mutter or utter aught for fear. Isa 29:4 a Vox trepida et prae metu instar serpentum stridula. read more
Jer 46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable. Ver. 23. They shall cut down her forest, ] i.e., Her many cities. Herodotus telleth of one thousand and twenty cities that were in the land of Egypt in the days of King Amasis. Because they are more than the grasshoppers. ] The Babylonian sellers are; and those many hands will make light work. a a Lib. ii.; Diodor., lib. i. cap. 31. read more
voice: Isaiah 29:4, Micah 1:8, Micah 7:16 and come: Jeremiah 51:20-Isaiah :, Isaiah 10:15, Isaiah 10:33, Isaiah 10:34, Isaiah 14:8, Isaiah 37:24, Zechariah 11:2 Reciprocal: Psalms 74:5 - General read more
cut: Isaiah 10:18, Ezekiel 20:46 because: Judges 6:5, Judges 7:12, Joel 2:25, Revelation 9:2-2 Samuel : Reciprocal: Psalms 74:5 - General Isaiah 10:34 - cut down Jeremiah 51:14 - as with Jeremiah 51:27 - cause read more
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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 46:1-28
Jeremiah 46-51. The Foreign Prophecies.— These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen ( Jeremiah 1:5; Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 25:15), Jeremiah’ s prophetic horizon naturally included the surrounding nations; how far the prophecies that follow are his can be decided only by detailed criticism in each case. They refer, though in somewhat different order, to the several nations enumerated in Jeremiah 25:19-Ezekiel : (which may be regarded as an introduction to... read more