Jeremiah 13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 13

Still the prophet is attempting to awaken this secure and stubborn people to repentance, by the consideration of the judgments of God that were coming upon them. He is to tell them, I. By the sign of a girdle spoiled that their pride should be stained, Jer. 13:1-11. II. By the sign of bottles filled with wine that their counsels should be blasted, Jer. 13:12-14. III. In consideration hereof he is to call them to repent and humble themselves, Jer. 13:15-21. IV. He is to convince them that it is... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-11

Here is, I. A sign, the marring of a girdle, which the prophet had worn for some time, by hiding it in a hole of a rock near the river Euphrates. It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs, that a stupid unthinking people might be brought to consider, and believe, and be affected with what was thus set before them. 1. He was to wear a linen girdle for some time, Jer. 13:1, 2. Some think he wore it under his clothes, because it was linen, and it is said to cleave to his loins, Jer. 13:11.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12-21

Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a figure, to make it the more taken notice of and the more affecting (Jer. 13:12): Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, every bottle shall be filled with wine; that is, those that by their sins have made themselves vessels of wrath fitted to destruction shall be filled with the wrath of God as a bottle is with wine; and, as every vessel of mercy prepared for glory shall... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 13:22-27

Here is, I. Ruin threatened as before, that the Jews shall go into captivity, and fall under all the miseries of beggary and bondage, shall be stripped of their clothes, their skirts discovered for want of upper garments to cover them, and their heels made bare for want of shoes, Jer. 13:22. Thus they used to deal with prisoners taken in war, when they drove them into captivity, naked and barefoot, Isa. 20:4. Being thus carried off into a strange country, they shall be scattered there, as the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 13 In this chapter, under the similes of a girdle and bottles of wine, the destruction of the Jews is set forth. Some exhortations are given them to repent and humble themselves, even men of all ranks and degrees among them; and their sins, the source of their calamities, are pointed out to them. An order is given to the prophet to get him a linen girdle, with instructions what to do with it, and which he observed, Jeremiah 13:1 , a fresh order to take it and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1

Thus saith the Lord unto me ,.... In a vision, and by the spirit of prophecy: when this was said is not certain, very likely in the reign of Jehoiakim; the prophet gives an account of what had been done, the present tense is put for the past. Go and get thee a linen girdle ; or, "a girdle of linens" F12 אזור פשתים "cingulum linorum", Montanus. ; a girdle made of flax or fine linen, which the prophet had not used to wear; and having none, is bid to go, perhaps from Anathoth to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:2

So I got a girdle ,.... Or, bought F14 ואקנה Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt. a linen one, as directed: according to the word of the Lord ; his express order and command; the prophet was not disobedient to the heavenly vision: and I put it on my loins ; without washing it before or after, and wore it publicly for some time. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:3

And the word of the Lord ,.... The Targum is, "the word of prophecy from before the Lord:' came unto me the second time, saying ; what distance of time there was between this order and the former is not known. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:4

Take the girdle which thou hast got, which is upon thy loins ,.... Either he is bid to take it off his loins, on which it was; or to go with it on them; seeing the taking it off does not seem absolutely necessary; and go with it to the place directed to in the following words: and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock ; by the river side, where the waters, coming and going, would reach and wet it, and it drying again, would rot the sooner. This signifies the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:5

So I went and hid it by Euphrates ,.... Or, "in" F15 בפרת "in Euphrate", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin. it; in a hole of the rock, upon the banks of it: as the Lord commanded me : all this seems to be done not really, but visionally; it can hardly be thought that Jeremy should be sent on two such long journeys, on such an account, which would take up a considerable time to perform it in; but rather that he went and came in like manner as Ezekiel did, in the visions of God,... read more

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