Jeremiah 17:11-12 KJV

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge … hatcheth them not ; rather, as the partridge sitteth on eggs which it hath not laid ; a proverbial illustration of the Divine retributive justice. The prophet assumes the truth of a popular belief respecting the partridge (still a common bird in Judaea), that it brooded upon eggs which it had not laid. As the young birds soon leave the false mother, so unjustly acquired riches soon forsake their possessors. [Canon Tristram rejects this explanation, on the ground that... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:11

Partridge-nests. I. ILL - GOTTEN RICHES BETOKEN AN UNNATURAL CONDITION Of SOCIETY . It is not natural that strange eggs should be found in a partridge-nest. Violence and fraud and more subtle sharp-practice are proofs of a disorganized state of society. II. ILL - GOTTEN RICHES MAY BE MINGLED WITH JUST GAINS . It may not be that all the eggs are strange. The business man who is dishonest in some transactions may be honest in others; but his very... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:11

Riches wrongly gotten, and the consequence. Here is an instance of illustration which, so far as our knowledge is concerned, is more obscure than the thing to be illustrated. But there was, no doubt, with regard to some bird a popular opinion which made the prophet's reference very suggestive to his hearers. The fact supposed is that some bird gathers the young of other birds, despoiling the nests of the real parents, only to find, when the young ones get sufficiently strong, that they can... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12

The place of our sanctuary. Some four hundred years had passed between the date of these words and the marriage of Solomon with the daughter of the Egyptian king. But that remote event, fruitful of consequences as it was at the time, was fruitful also in results for generation after generation in the centuries to come. And it is to one of those results that this verse has reference, or rather was occasioned by it. Forever since that marriage there had been an Egyptian party in the court of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12-13

An address to Jehovah in two parts, the first specially referring to the temple regarded as the sacramental symbol of the Divine presence (comp. Psalms 5:7 ), the second to Jehovah himself. It seems to us, no doubt, singular thus practically to identify, Jehovah and his temple; but the prophet s meaning is that God can only be addressed in so far as he has revealed himself. The temple was not, strictly speaking, the "Name or revelation of God, but it was "the place of the Name of Jehovah,"... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12-13

The saint's Refuge. The construction Of the clauses of the twelfth verse is very difficult, and it is not easy to determine their exact relations. It may be better to take them as simple and independent exclamations, united in their being addressed to a common object rather than by any grammatical nexus: "O throne of glory, height from the beginning, place of our sanctuary!" But, taken by itself, this would have no particular sense. It is only as a preface to Jeremiah 17:13 that we can... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12-13

An inspiring invocation. We must take Jeremiah 17:12 as invocatory rather than indicative. The prophet speaks suitably in the language of apostrophe as he refers to the throne of Jehovah and the holy heights where he dwells. "O throne of glory, height of beginning, place of our sanctuary!" It will be felt that this apostrophe is well fitted to make the Hope of Israel a source of real hope in the hearts of Israel. I. THE THRONE OF GLORY . This may be taken as having, by... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12-14

The Hope of Israel. I. THE REVELATION OF THE HOPE OF ISRAEL . 1. God is revealed as the Hope of his people; i.e. as the source 2. God is thus revealed in connection with the sanctuary , 3. Experience confirms this revelation of God. The glorious character of God has been true of him "from the beginning." The antiquity of the temple was the proof of this to the Jew, the history of Christendom should be more so to the Christian. II. THE FOLLY OF ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 17:5-18

In the rest of the prophecy Jeremiah dwells upon the moral faults which had led to Judah’s ruin.Jeremiah 17:6Like the heath - Or, “like a destitute man” Psalms 102:17. The verbs “he shall see” (or fear) and “shall inhabit” plainly show that a man is here meant and not a plant.Jeremiah 17:8The river - Or, “water-course” Isaiah 30:25, made for purposes of irrigation.Shall not see - Or, “shall not fear Jeremiah 17:6.” God’s people feel trouble as much as other people, but they do not fear it... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 17:11

Jeremiah 17:11. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not Or rather, as the words דגר לא ילד may be more literally rendered, hatcheth eggs which she did not lay; so he that getteth riches, and not by right That is, not in a due, regular manner, by the blessing of God upon honest endeavours, but by arts of knavery and injustice; shall leave them in the midst of his days Though he may make them his hope, he shall not have joy in them, nor the true and lasting possession of... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12-14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 17:5-18

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 17:11

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