Jeremiah 13:12-14

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12

Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word ,.... The following parable: thus saith the Lord God of Israel ; what was to be said is prefaced with these words, to show that it was not a trifling matter, but of moment and importance, and not to be slighted and despised as it was: every bottle shall be filled with wine ; meaning every inhabitant of Judea and Jerusalem, comparable to bottles or earthen vessels, as the Jewish writers interpret it, for their being empty of all that is... read more

John Gill

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

Then shall thou say unto them ,.... Explaining the above words: thus saith the Lord, behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land ; this is the application of the parable, and shows that by every bottle is meant every inhabitant of Judea: even the kings that sit upon David's throne ; or, "that sit for David on his throne" F23 הישבים לדוד "sedentes Davidi", Montanus, Schmidt, Cocceius; "pro David", Pagninus, Calvin, Junius & Tremellius. ; that succeed him one... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:14

And I will dash them one against another ,.... As drunken men fall foul on one another, and quarrel and fight; or in allusion to bottles and earthen vessels they are before compared to; and may denote the internal broils and contentions among themselves, that instead of assisting each other in their distress, they would be destroying one another; which was notorious in the last siege of Jerusalem: even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord ; no relation, nor even age nor sex,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:12

Every bottle shall be filled with wine? - The bottles were made for the purpose of being filled with wine; and it is likely, from the promising appearance of the season and the grapes, that there was a great likelihood of a copious vintage; and this made them say, "Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? Have we not every prospect that it will be so? Do we need a revelation to inform us of this?" read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:13

Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land - with drunkenness - You pretend to take this literally, but it is a symbol. You, and your kings, and priests, and prophets, are represented by these bottles. The wine is God's wrath against you, which shall first be shown by confounding your deliberations, filling you with foolish plans of defense, causing you from your divided counsels to fall out among yourselves, so that like so many drunken men you shall reel about and jostle each... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:12

Verse 12 The Prophet denounces here by another similitude the vengeance of God, for he says that all would be filled with drunkenness: but he is bidden at first simply to set before them the metaphor, Every bottle, or flagon, he says, shall be filled with wine The word רבל, ubel, means a bladder; but the word bottle is more suitable here. (75) Bladders were wont in those countries to be filled with water and with wine, as the custom is still in the east; as we see at this day that oil is put in... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:14

Verse 14 It may now be asked, What was this drunkenness which the Prophet announces? It may be understood in two ways, — either that God would give them up to a reprobate mind, — or that he would make them drunk with evils and calamities; for when God deprives men of a right mind, it is to prepare them for extreme vengeance. But the Prophet seems to have something further in view — that this people would be given up to the most grievous evils, which would wholly fill them with amazement. Yet it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-12

The ruined girdle; or, it may be too late to mend. The much-needed lesson of this section was taught by means of one of those acted parables of which we have so many instances both in the Old Testament and in the New: e.g. Zedekiah's horns of iron ( 1 Kings 22:11 ); the strange marriages of Isaiah 8:1 , Hosea 1:2 ; the two yokes ( Jeremiah 27:2 ); and in the New Testament, our Lord's standing the little child in the midst of the disciples; the washing the disciples' feet; the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:12

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:12

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:13

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 13:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-27

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