An example of false prophesying and a vindication of the true as opposed to the false will be given in the chapter that follows this. Jeremiah 27:9 sn An example of this is seen in 1 Sam 28. Jeremiah 27:9 tn The verb in this context is best taken as a negative obligatory imperfect...
--The meaning of the symbolic act, which has its parallel in the girdle of Jeremiah 13:1-7, in the potter's vessel of Jeremiah 19:10, and in the yokes of Jeremiah 27:2, is explained in the following verse. The parchment roll by itself might have floated, and been picked up and ...
“[The book] explained how to practice meditation by quieting the mind and entering the Divine Silence in order to enter the divine peace and calm and restore our souls.”[4] This meditation book also resonates with the New Age teaching that God is within: “There is a spark of the Di...
24TheLordtold Jeremiah, “Tell[e]Shemaiah the Nehelamite[f] Read full chapter Footnotes Jeremiah 29:22snBeingroasted to death in the fireappears to have been a common method of execution in Babylon. SeeDan 3:6,19-21. The famous law code of the Babylonian king Hammurabi also mandated this...
Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version“Return, faithless people,” declares the LORD, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.New Living Translation“Return home, you wayward children,” says the LORD, “for ...
However, it will be suggested below, in conjunction with the textual problems in 27:1 and 28:1, that the term does not necessarily refer to this period. Jeremiah 26:2 sn It is generally agreed that the incident recorded in this chapter relates to the temple message that Jeremiah gave in...
Jeremiah 32:15 sn The significance of the symbolic act performed by Jeremiah, as explained here, was a further promise (see the “again” statements in 31:4, 5, 23 and the “no longer” statements in 31:12, 29, 34, 40) of future restoration beyond the destruction implied in vv. 3-...
d). The Kethib of the word for בָּאזִקִּים (baʾziqqim) is to be explained as a secondary formation with prosthetic א (alef) from the normal word for “fetter” (זֵק, zeq) according to HALOT 27 s.v. אֲזִקִּים (...
“its bread”) are often emended to read “in/with its sap” = “in its prime” (either לֵחוֹ [lekho] or לֵחְמוֹ [lekhemo]); the latter would be more likely, and the מוֹ (mo) could be explained as a rare use of the old poetic third ...
Jeremiah 44:24tnHeb“and to all the women.” The “and” (ו,vav) is to be explained here according to BDB 252 s.v.וַ1.a. The focus of the address that follows is on the women. See the translator’s note on the next verse. ...