Bible Commentary

The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood. 22. The sound thereof shall go like the serpent ] better, as mg. Her sound is like that of the serpent as it goeth. The voice of Egypt in her … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:22”

Also her hired men [are] in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, [and] are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, [and] the time of their visitation. 21. her hired men ] her mercenary troops. like calves of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:21”

Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. 20. This simile for Egypt may be suggested by Apis the bull god. See on Jer 5:16. but destruction out of the north is come ] better, as mg. the gadfly. This rendering of the word (not found elsewhere) … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:20”

O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. 19. O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt ] the population of Egypt personified, preferable to mg. O thou that dwellest with the daughter of Egypt. furnish thyself to go into captivity ] … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:19”

[As] I live, saith the King, whose name [is] the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor [is] among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, [so] shall he come. 18. The foe (unnamed, but meaning Nebuchadnezzar, unless the passage is late, and Alexander the Great is intended; so Schmidt) shall resemble these mountains as … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:18”

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. 17. They cried there a noise ] Read, Call ye the name of Pharaoh (so far accord Syr. and Vulg., and so the LXX, who add Neco) a Crash. Thus Dr., who compares for a name symbolical … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:17”

He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword. 16. As the latter part of the v. implies that the speakers are foreigners, who, however, according to the present MT. … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:16”

Why are thy valiant [men] swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them. 15. Why swept away?] The mg. is to be preferred. The adjective in the Hebrew is plural, while both the verb connected with it and the pronouns that follow are in the singular. Hence we conclude that the singular … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:15”

Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. 14. Migdol ] See on Jer 44:1. For Noph and Tahpanhes See on Jer 2:16. Migdol was the border town in the Asiatic direction and … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:14”

The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon should come [and] smite the land of Egypt. 13 26. See introd. note to the ch. and summary. Gi. rejects as later all that follows Jer 46:12 as involving repetitions, looseness of structure, and vagueness in style, criticisms which (see … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 46:13”