Jeremiah 8:1-2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-3

These verses might fitly have been joined to the close of the foregoing chapter, as giving a further description of the dreadful desolation which the army of the Chaldeans should make in the land. It shall strangely alter the property of death itself, and for the worse too. I. Death shall not now be, as it always used to be?the repose of the dead. When Job makes his court to the grave it is in hope of this, that there he shall rest with kings and counsellors of the earth; but now the ashes of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1

At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah ,.... That is, either the Chaldeans or the Romans would do this; for this refers to the destruction of Jerusalem, either by the former or the latter; and it is certain that Jerusalem was ploughed up by the Romans, whereby the prophecy in Micah 3:12 was accomplished; when it is highly probable the graves were dug up, and the bones of the dead brought out, and scattered abroad by way of revenge; or it may be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:2

And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven ,.... The stars. This shows, not only that they should be publicly exposed; but, as it refers to their idolatrous worship of the sun, moon, and stars, that these deities will not be able to help them; as they could not prevent their dead bodies being dug up, so neither could they order or cause them to be gathered together, and buried again: whom they have loved ; whereas they ought to have loved the Lord... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:1

They shall bring out the bones - This and the two following verses are a continuation of the preceding prophecy, and should not have been separated from the foregoing chapter. In order to pour the utmost contempt upon the land, the victorious enemies dragged out of their graves, caves, and sepulchers, the bones of kings, princes, prophets, priests, and the principal inhabitants, and exposed them in the open air; so that they became, in the order of God's judgments, a reproach to them in... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:1

Verse 1 I Have said that Jeremiah repeats in the first verse what he had before said, — that the Jews would be deprived of their graves, in order that there might be on the dead a mark of God’s vengeance; as though he had said, that after having been destroyed by the hand of enemies, they would have their punishment extended farther by having their dead bodies exposed to the wild beasts and birds. The faithful, as I have said, suffer no loss, when burial is denied them; but yet they do not... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:2

Verse 2 It was, because they served the sun, and the moon, and the stars It was God’s just vengeance, that their bones should be taken from their graves, in order that the sun and moon and all the stars might be witnesses of his judgment. By these words Jeremiah indirectly reprobates the senselessness of the people for thinking that they performed an acceptable service to the sun and moon. He therefore says, that all the stars and the planets would become as it were spectators of the vengeance... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1

They shall bring out the bones . Not only shall many of the dead bodies remain unburied, but the sepulchers of those who have till now "lain in honor, each one in his house" ( Isaiah 14:18 ), shall be violated. The inhabitants of Jerusalem meant are evidently those of the upper class, for the others were buried, with but little regard to the security of the corpses, in the valley of Kedron ( 2 Kings 23:6 ). According to some, the motive of this invasion of the chambers of the dead is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-2

The bones of the dead idolaters cast out before their cities. I. ASK HOW THIS SPOLIATION COMES TO PASS . One cannot suppose that it came by the intention of Jehovah. Rather would it arise as a necessary part of wholesale pillage. Considerable treasures might be lying in the tombs of these grandees of Israel, and much might also have been hidden in them for purposes of safety, and therefore, seeing that this hideous devastation had to happen, it was fitting to call... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-3

Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:2

And they shall spread them , etc. Not as an act of solemn mockery, for the agents are idolaters themselves, but God so overrules the passions of his unconscious instruments that no more effective ceremonial could have been devised. Whom they have loved , etc. The prophet is designedly diffuse in his description. With all their misspent zeal, these unhappy idolaters cannot even find tombs. read more

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