Jeremias 22:6-9 NVT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 22:1-9

Here we have, I. Orders given to Jeremiah to go and preach before the king. In the foregoing chapter we are told that Zedekiah sent messengers to the prophet, but here the prophet is bidden to go, in his own proper person, to the house of the king, and demand his attention to the word of the King of kings (Jer. 22:2): Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah! Subjects must own that where the word of the king is there is power over them, but kings must own that where the word of the Lord is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:6

For thus saith the Lord unto the king's house of Judah ,.... That is, to the family of the king of Judah; though it may be rendered, "concerning the house of the king of Judah" F26 על בית מלך "de domo regis", Cocceius, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; and so refer to his palace as before: thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon ; or, though like to Gilead (which was a very fruitful country) for wealth, riches, and all kind of valuable things; and like to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:7

And I will prepare destroyers against thee ,.... The Chaldeans, men of savage dispositions, bent upon the destruction of their neighbours; and who had already destroyed many nations, and so fit instruments for such service, as after mentioned; and who yet did not come merely of themselves, but were moved and directed to it by the powerful and all wise providence of God, in consequence of a previous preparation and appointment of them by the Lord in his counsels and purposes. It is, in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:8

And many nations shall pass by this city ,.... After it is burned down and destroyed; that is, people out of many nations travelling that way: and they shall say every man to his neighbour ; as in company together, passing along the ruined walls of the city: wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city ? so fortified and so full of people; the metropolis of the whole nation; the greatest city in the east; yea, the joy of the whole earth; a city peculiarly dear to the Lord;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:9

Then they shall answer ,.... Or, "it shall be answered" F5 ואמרו "respondebitur", Gataker; "dicetur", Piscator. ; by some in company, acquainted with the history of this people: because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God ; the Lord was the God of these people; he chose them for his peculiar people, and distinguished them by his favours from others; a covenant was made with them, in which many good things were promised them upon their obedience; this was kept by... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:6

Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon - Perhaps in allusion, says Dahler, to the oaks of Gilead, and the cedars of Mount Lebanon, of which the palace was constructed. Lebanon was the highest mountain in Israel, and Gilead the richest and most fertile part of the country; and were, therefore, proper emblems of the reigning family. Though thou art the richest and most powerful, I, who raised thee up, can bring thee down and make thee a wilderness. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:7

They shall cut down thy choice cedars - The destruction of the country is expressed under the symbol of the destruction of a fine forest; a multitude of fellers come against it, each with his axe; and, there being no resistance, every tree is soon felled to the earth. "These destroyers," God says, "I have prepared, קדשתי kiddashti , I have sanctified - consecrated, to this work. They have their commission from me." read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:8

Many nations shall pass - These words seem borrowed from Deuteronomy 29:22 , etc. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:6

Verse 6 He confirms the preceding declaration, and explains more at large what had been stated sufficiently clear; for the false boasting of the Jews could hardly be restrained, as they still thought that the kingdom in the family of David would be permanent and exempt from any danger of a change. But interpreters differ as to the meaning of the words. I will not repeat their views, nor is it necessary: I will only state what seems to me to be the real meaning. All others indeed give a... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:7

Verse 7 He expresses the manner, for he had only said before, that the ruin of the city Jerusalem was nigh at hand; he adds, that destroyers would come and those well armed with warlike instruments, who would cut down all the choicest cedars and cast them into the fire But he reminds them, that those destroyers would not come of themselves or through an impulse of their own, but through the secret operation of God; for if the Jews had thought that they had to do only with the Chaldeans, there... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 22:1-9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 22:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 22:7

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