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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 16:14-21

There is a mixture of mercy and judgment in these verses, and it is hard to know to which to apply some of the passages here?they are so interwoven, and some seem to look as far forward as the times of the gospel. I. God will certainly execute judgment upon them for their idolatries. Let them expect it, for the decree has gone forth. 1. God sees all their sins, though they commit them ever so secretly and palliate them ever so artfully (Jer. 16:17): My eyes are upon all their ways. They have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them ,.... Which some understand of the Egyptians, who lived much on fish, and were much employed in catching them, to which the allusion is thought to be; but rather the Chaldeans are intended, whom God, by the secret instinct of his providence, brought up against the Jews; who besieged Jerusalem, and enclosed them in it, and took them as fishes in a net; see Habakkuk 1:14 , though some interpret this, and what... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:16

I will send for many fishers - for many hunters - I shall raise up enemies against them some of whom shall destroy them by wiles, and others shall ruin them by violence. This seems to be the meaning of these symbolical fishers and hunters. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:16

Verse 16 Some explain this of the apostles; but it is wholly foreign to the subject: they think that Jeremiah pursues here what he had begun to speak of; for they doubt not but that he had been speaking in the last verse of a future but a near deliverance, in order to raise the children of God into a cheerful confidence. But I have already rejected this meaning, for their exposition is not well founded. But if it be conceded that the Prophet had prophesied of the liberation of the people, it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:1-21

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:16-17

I will send for should rather be , I will send . Fishers and hunters , by a divinely given impulse, shall "fish" and "hunt" the unhappy fugitives from their lurking-places. There may, perhaps, be an allusion to the cruel ancient practice of "sweeping the country with a drag-net" (Herod, 3.149), and then destroying the male population: Samos, e.g. was thus "netted" and depopulated by the Persians. Habakkuk may also refer to this when he says ( Habakkuk 1:15 ), "They catch them in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:16-18

Fishers and hunters. I. THE CHASE . The guilty will be sought after for punishment. If they do not seek God in penitence he will seek them in judgment. However far we may flee from obedience we cannot flee from responsibility. Jonah fled "from the presence of the Lord "( Jonah 1:3 ), but he was overtaken by a Divine judgment. If God s present long-suffering makes him appear indifferent, the day will come when his wrath will be swift, searching, and far-reaching. Then none of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:16-21

Sin found out. The striking imagery of these verses teaches us that there shall be no hiding-place, whether by sea or land, where God will not find those whom his vengeance pursues. The sinner may be sure that his sin will find him out. I. MEN DOUBT THIS . Reasons are: 1. Long impunity has made them bold. 2. Such findings of them out as have taken place, in defilement of conscience, hardening of the heart, loss of peace with God, etc; they do not care for. They only care... read more

Albert Barnes

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

The scattering of the people is to be like that of hunted animals, of which but few escape, the ancient method of hunting being to enclose a large space with beaters and nets, and so drive everything within it to some place where it was destroyed. The destruction of the whole male population was one of the horrible customs of ancient warfare, and the process is called in Herodotus “sweeping the country with a drag-net.” The same authority tells us that this method could only be effectually... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 16:16-18

Jeremiah 16:16-18. Behold, I will send, &c. This may be better rendered, But now I will send, &c. Because here the prophet returns to denounce threatenings; many fishers, and they shall fish them “It is common with the sacred writers to represent enemies and oppressors under the metaphors of fishers and hunters, because they use all the methods of open force and secret stratagem to make men their prey.” By these two characters the same enemies are probably meant, namely, the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 16:14-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 16:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:16

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 16:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:1-21

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:16-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:16-18

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 16:16-21

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

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 16:16-18

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