Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 32:21
And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
21. Almost the same as Deu 26:8. For the terror caused to neighbouring nations by the miracles attendant upon the Exodus cp. Exo 15:14; Deu 2:25; Deu 4:34.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The history of this we have in the eleven or twelve first chapters of Exodus. God sent ten plagues upon Egypt one after another, before Pharaoh would let them go; and when he pursued after them, divided the Red Sea for them, that they might pass through, and then brought the waters back upon the Egyptians, pursuing after them through the sea.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. (Psa 136:11;Psa 136:12).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And hast brought forth thy people Israel of the land of Egypt,…. As he promised Abraham, some hundreds of years before, that they should come out from thence; and where they had been as bondsmen, though they were the Lord’s peculiar people, whom he had chose for himself above all people, and therefore he brought them out of their state of bondage; and this was his own doing, they could not deliver themselves; the enemy would not let them go till he was obliged to it by the superior power of God:
with signs and with wonders; which he wrought for them at the time of their deliverance, slaying the firstborn; and at the Red sea, and in the wilderness, after he brought them out of Egypt, and before their settlement in the laud of Canaan; and so these may be considered as distinct from the signs and wonders in the land of Egypt before mentioned:
and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm; with great power, and so delivered the Israelites from them that were stronger than they; with a mighty hand, that protected his people; and with a long arm, that reached their enemies, and destroyed them:
and with great terror; with great reverence in the Israelites, who saw the power and majesty of God; and with great terror to Pharaoh and his host, when they saw the waters return and overwhelm them; and to all the nations round about, when they heard of it; see De 4:34. The Targum is,
“with great vision;”
so a spectacle, as the Syriac version; openly, before the eyes of all.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Jeremiah comes now nearer to the point in hand; for, after having spoken of the unequalled power of God, he now extols his righteous judgment in inflicting punishment on an ungodly and wicked people. For this end he refers to the favor of redemption, and he then adds that the land had been given to Israel which had been promised to their fathers. He afterwards states that this favor had been conferred on the ungrateful, for they immediately shook off the yoke and despised God their redeemer, together with his Law.
He then says, that the people had been brought up from the land of Egypt with signs and wonders This is an amplification, for God had in an unusual manner made it sufficiently evident that without his favor the people could not have been delivered from Egypt. For had it not been for the manifest display of God’s power in miracles and wonders, the Israelites might have appropriated to themselves the favor of God, or to some worldly instrumentality; but God’s favor appeared so resplendent in signs and wonders, that the liberation of the people could not have been ascribed either to fortune, or to the efforts of men, or to any other means. And for the same purpose he mentions the strong hand and the extended arm. He intimates by these words, that the people had been so delivered, that the hand of God, yea, his extended arm, openly appeared, that is, his power, as we have explained elsewhere, was manifested far and wide.
He refers at last to great terror: such was the haughtiness of their enemies, that they would have never suffered the people to depart, had they not been filled with great terror. As then the Egyptians had been by terror subdued, Jeremiah amplifies by this circumstance the favor of redemption, as though he had said, that God’s favor was not obscure, because the Israelites might have known by these extraordinary evidences that they were delivered by a divine power. For so great was the power, the valor, and cruelty of their enemies, that no hope of a free departure could have been entertained, had not God put forth his hand from heaven. It afterwards follows, —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(21-23) And hast brought forth thy people Israel . . .The verses travel over ground so familiar as to require no comment, but the parallelism with Deu. 26:8, with the other prophetic prayers above referred to, and with Psa. 136:11-12, is significant. The thoughts of all true worshippers moved more or less in the same groove, and clothed themselves in the same language, when they meditated on the past history of their people.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Jer 32:21 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;
Ver. 21. And hast made thee a name. ] As Isa 63:11-13 Psa 136:10-21 Psa 105:44 Neh 9:24 ; Neh 9:26 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
with a strong hand, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Exo 9:6). App-92. See note on Jer 27:5.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
brought: Exo 6:6, Exo 13:14, Psa 105:37, Psa 105:43, Psa 106:8-11
with a strong: Exo 6:1, Exo 13:9, Deu 26:8, 1Ki 8:42, Psa 89:8-10, Psa 136:11, Psa 136:12
Reciprocal: Exo 3:20 – smite Exo 7:3 – multiply Exo 34:10 – a terrible Deu 6:21 – General Deu 7:19 – great Deu 10:21 – that hath Deu 11:3 – General 2Ki 17:36 – a stretched Psa 28:5 – not build Psa 78:42 – remembered Psa 105:27 – They Psa 135:9 – sent tokens Amo 2:10 – I brought Mic 6:4 – I brought Act 13:17 – and with
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 32:21. After the above-mentioned signs in Egypt (which means the 10 plagues), God delivered his people by the miraculous crossing through the Red Sea.