Jeremiah 12:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. ”

• Jeremiah 12:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Desolation of Judah by her Neighbours, and their Future. This isolated prophecy is most naturally referred to the events of 2 Kings 24:1 f., when Jehoiakim had revolted against Nebuchadrezzar...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  obey . hearken. saith the LORD . [is] Jehovah's oracle. 7-13. The beloved People. Themselves. 14-17. The beloved People. Their enemies.

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  As he had shewn that there was a sure hope of salvation to his own people, when the Gentiles would embrace his mercy, so he now threatens the Gentiles with destruction in case they repented not...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. I will - destroy that nation - Several of them did not obey, and are destroyed. Of the Moabites, Ammonites,...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the ho...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-4. The prosperity of the wicked perplexes Jeremiah.

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I will utterly pluck up. — In this, as in the preceding verse, there is an obvious reference to the prophet’s calling as described in Jeremiah 1:10 , the self-same word being used as that which is...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER VII THE BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1-23 and Jeremiah 12:1-17 THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Now we hear the prophet as he appealed to Jehovah to be his Defender, and. finally, we hear the divine determination. concerning his evil neighbors. This peril was revealed to him by Jehovah. It was...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I detain not the Reader, with multiplying observations on these verses, the tenor of which is so uniformly discoverable through all the Bible. But I beg of him, to remark with me, how gracious the Lo...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But if they will not obey ,.... Or "hear" k; the word of the Lord, and hearken to the ministers of the Gospel, and be subject to the ordinances of it; or as the Targum, "will not receive instructio...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD. Ver. 17. But if they will not obey. ] The tartness of the threatening maketh us best taste the sweetness...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If they will diligently learn the ways of my people If they will leave their idolatries, and learn of my people who lived among them to be worshippers of me the true God, and to swear by my name,...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Predictions of Mercy. B. C. 606.       14 Thus saith the L ORD against all mine evil neighb...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  But for those, whether they be Jews or Gentiles, that shall continue in their idolatrous and superstitious courses, that shall refuse the Messias, and continue in unbelief, and go on in courses of re...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  YHWH Has Forsaken His House And Rejected His Heritage Because Of What It Has Become, And Their Evil Neighbours Will Also Be Punished, But Even For Them There Will Be Hope In The Future If They Turn...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the chapter. See on chap. 11, Bleek’s theory; for which there is a weight of argument. All commentators agree to connect Jeremiah 12:1-6 with the c...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 12:4 . He shall not see our last end. This is sadducean language, as Psalms 104:5 . “The Lord will not see, neither will the God of Jacob regard.” This species of atheism blunts the edge...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Jeremiah 12:1 Painfully exercised by the mysteries of the Divine government, the prophet opens his grief to Jehovah. Righteous art thou, etc.; rather, Righteous wouldest thou be...

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Lord's Answer

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• Jeremiah 12:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Peter 2:6-8 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:8 ; Daniel 11:4 ; Daniel 7:4-8 ; Ezekiel 19:12 ; Isaiah 60:12 ; Jeremiah 12:14-17 ; Jeremiah 18:7 ; Jeremiah 31:28 ; Luke 19:27 ; Psalms 2:8-12 ; Zechari...

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