Jeremiah 18:14 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 18:11-17

These verses seem to be the application of the general truths laid down in the foregoing part of the chapter to the nation of the Jews and their present state. I. God was now speaking concerning them to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy; for it is that part of the rule of judgment that their case agrees with (Jer. 18:11): ?Go, and tell them? (saith God), ?Behold I frame evil against you and devise against you. Providence in all its operations is plainly working towards your ruin. Look... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 18:14

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon, which cometh from the rock of the field ?.... Lebanon was a mountain on the borders of Judea, the top of which was covered in the summertime with snow, from the whiteness of which it had its name, Lebanon; as the Alps, for the same reason, which lie between France and Italy: now, the snow being dissolved by the heat, ran in flowing streams down the rocks into the field and plain, where they might be easily come at, and drank of; and would a thirsty... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:14

Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon - Lebanon was the highest mountain in Judea. Would any man in his senses abandon a farm that was always watered by the melted snows of Lebanon, and take a barren rock in its place? How stupid therefore and absurd are my people, who abandon the everlasting God for the worship of idols! read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:14

Verse 14 As I have just said, God here enhances the sin of the people by a twofold comparison; for when one can draw water in his own field, and find there a spring, what folly will it be for him to run to a distance to seek water? And then, when water does not spring up near, but flows from a distance in a pure and cold stream, who will not be satisfied with such water? and if he seeks to find the spring, will not all laugh at such madness? Now God was like a living fountain, and at Jerusalem... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:1-23

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:14

Will a man leave the anew of Lebanon , etc.? This passage is unusually obscure. Literally we must, it would seem, render, Doth the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field (or possibly, cease to flow from the rock unto the field )? This is explained as pointing a contrast to the infidelity of God's people. "The snow never leaves the summit of Lebanon; the waters which take their rise therein never dry up; but my people have forgotten the law of their being, the source of their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:14

Mountain snow. Any one who has found himself in the valley of Chamounix on a sultry summer afternoon must have felt the striking contrast between the eternal winter of the vast snow-fields of Mont Blanc, spread out in blazing sunlight high above his head, and the dust and heat of the parched land around. The permanence of this mountain snow is suggestive of spiritual lessons. I. MOUNTAIN SNOW IS AN EMBLEM OF SPIRITUAL LIFE MAINTAINED IN THE MIDST OF WORLDLY ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:14-15

Jehovah an unfailing Help to his people; or, the snow of Lebanon. One of the most striking scenes visible from a great distance is Hermon, with its snow and vapors. It is covered with white snow all the year round, and from its summits flow down cold, pent-up streams to the valley beneath. God asks why Israel has forsaken him; whether there was any failure of his grace and power. Has he not been constant and ever ready to help? How is it, then, that he is forsaken? The snow of Lebanon is,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 18:14

Rather, “Will the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field?” The meaning probably is, “Will the snow of Lebanon fail from its rocks which tower above the land of Israel?” The appeal of the prophet is to the unchangeableness of one of nature’s most beautiful phenomena, the perpetual snow upon the upper summits of Lebanon.Shall the cold ... - literally, “shall the strange, i. e., foreign, “cool, down-flowing waters be plucked up?” The general sense is: God is Israel’s Rock, from whom the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 18:13-14

Jeremiah 18:13-14. Ask ye now among the heathen Such an apostacy as you are guilty of (see Jer 18:15 ) is not to be paralleled among the heathen. Compare Jeremiah 2:10. Who hath heard such things When did people ever behave toward their idols, which yet were no gods, as my people have behaved toward me? The virgin of Israel That people who were dedicated to me as a chaste virgin, have since corrupted themselves, and gone a whoring after idols. Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon, ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 18:11-17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 18:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:14

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 18:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 18:14-15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 18:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 18:13-14

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