6 You, Pashhur, and all your household[i] will go into exile in Babylon. You will die there and you will be buried there. The same thing will happen to all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.’”[j]Read full chapter Footnotes Jeremiah 20:1 tn Heb“chief overseer/officer...
Read full chapter Footnotes Jeremiah 32:6snThis verse resumes the narrative introduction inv. 1, which was interrupted by the long parenthetical note about historical background. There is again some disjunction in the narrative (compare the translator’s notes on27:2and28:1). What was begun as...
You are not the master over others and have no place to pass judgement on them. As Paul wrote in chapter 13, it’s the governments role as God’s agent to pass judgement when there are civil infractions. As to the personal influencers in our lives, Jesus tells us to judge them by ...
It means crown, originally the diadem of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; and the transference of the same word to the hair of the head is explained by the practice of the Nazarites, to wear the hair uncut as a mark of consecration to the Lord, Numbers 6:5. The hair of the Nazarite...
This short chapter embodies the history of Baruch, the secretary of Jeremiah. I. THE VERY EXCUSABLE MOAN (ver. 3), "Woe is me now!" 1. He was probably pained for his master's sake. 2. Probably grieved on account of the unhappy national outlook. 3. Was evidently distressed on his ...
Building on some of the points on autonomy and self-reliance in this chapter, Gross-Loh also explained the way we ask our children to do things matters. Think about how you like to be asked to do something. If someone is off-handedly demanding your attention while you (and they) are en...
Building on some of the points on autonomy and self-reliance in this chapter, Gross-Loh also explained the way we ask our children to do things matters. Think about how you like to be asked to do something. If someone is off-handedly demanding your attention while you (and they) are en...
The evidence for this homonym is questionable because both passages can be explained on other grounds with the usual root. Jeremiah 12:5 tn Heb“a land of tranquility.” The expression involves a figure of substitution where the feeling engendered is substituted for the conditions that engender ...
Jeremiah 26:19tnThis Hebrew idiom (חָלָה פָּנִים,khalah panim) is often explained in terms of “stroking” or “patting the face” of someone, seeking to gain his favor. It is never used in a literal sense and is found in contexts of prayer (Exod 32...
The sum of what God by his prophet revealeth in this chapter is, that he would deal more graciously with those carried into captivity with Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, of which read2 Kings 24:122 Chronicles 36:10, than with those that should afterward be carried into captivity with Zedek...