Jeremiah 13:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. ”

Jeremiah 13:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A linen girdle - The appointed dress of the priestly order ( Leviticus 16:4 , ...). Put it not in water - i. e., do not wash it, and so let it represent the deep-grained pollution of the peop...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Symbol of the Waist-cloth, its removal signifying the rejection and ruin of Judah, as a consequence of her disobedience. The prophet buys and wears a linen waist-cloth, not yet put in water, as...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

the Lord. Hebrew. Jehovah . App-14 a linen girdle. Soft girdles, made of silk or linen, still worn by upper classes. Compare Ezekiel 16:10 . Some embroidered ( Daniel 10:5 . Revelation 1:13...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

I have said that there is here a new prophecy; for the Prophet is said to buy for himself a girdle or a belt, or, according to some, a truss or breeches; and as mention is made of linen, this o...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. Thus saith the Lord unto me - This discourse is supposed to have been delivered under...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Go, and get thee a linen girdle— The prophet here begins a new discourse. He himself gives us an explanation of the meaning of the symbolical action here related. See the note on ch. Jeremiah 1:11...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. Many of these figurative acts being either not possible or not probable or deco...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Go , etc.] It is doubtful whether this and the subsequent acts of the prophet were real or done only in symbol. As, however, Jeremiah appears to have been absent from Jerusalem during the most of th...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A linen girdle. — The point of comparison is given in Jeremiah 13:11 . Of all garments worn by man the girdle was that most identified with the man’s activity, nearest to his person. The “linen gi...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER VIII THE FALL OF PRIDE Jeremiah 13:1-27 THIS discourse is a sort of appendix to the preceding; as is indicated by its abrupt and brief beginning with the words "Thus said Iahvah unto m...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

20-25, the Parable of the Girdle Jeremiah 13:1-11 This parable of the girdle may really have been transacted. By some such striking symbol before them the attention of the people must have be...
Jeremiah 13:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The account of this time of communion between Jeremiah and Jehovah ends with the story of how Jehovah gave him two signs, one for himself and one for the people. That for himself was the sign of the...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The Prophet in this Chapter is teaching by signs, as he had before been instructing by plain discourse. Under the similitude of a girdle made rotten, and of bottles perishing with wine; the...
Jeremiah 13:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus saith the Lord unto me ,.... In a vision, and by the spirit of prophecy: when this was said is not certain, very likely in the reign of Jehoiakim; the prophet gives an account of what had been...
Jeremiah 13:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thus saith the LORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen girdle, and put it upon thy loins, and put it not in water. Ver. 1. Go, get thee a linen girdle. ] Or, Belt, or swath. And put it not in wat...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thus saith the Lord unto me The prophet here begins a new discourse. Go and get thee a girdle , &c. “God explains, at Jeremiah 13:11 , what was meant by the symbol of the girdle, or sash, wor...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Marred Girdle. B. C. 606. 1 Thus saith the L ORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen g...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 13 In the type of a linen girdle God prefigureth their destruction, Jeremiah 13:1-11 . Under the parable of bottles filled with wine, is foretold their drunkenness with misery,...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Acted Out Prophecy Of The Linen Girdle ( Jeremiah 13:1-11 ). YHWH calls on Jeremiah to illustrate the present state of His people by an experiment with a linen girdle (waist cloth). He is init...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter . The reference in Jeremiah 13:18 to the “queen” is regarded as determining the date of this chapter. Ewald, Hitzig, Umbreit, Dahler, He...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 13:1 . Get thee a linen girdle, or “buy thee,” as the Chaldaic reads; which this priest and prophet wore unwashed till it became offensive, and began to excite attention and talk. The pri...
Jeremiah 13:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, beheld, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. The cast-off girdle In many insta...
Jeremiah 13:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in l...
Jeremiah 13:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thus saith the Lord unto me, in bidding the prophet perform an act of symbolic significance, Go and get thee a linen girdle, a very important article of apparel in those days, since it held the gar...
Jeremiah 13:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 4:1-5 ; Hebrews 1:1 ; Jeremiah 13:11 ; Jeremiah 19:1 ; Jeremiah 27:2

Jeremiah 13:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 13:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 13:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 13:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 13:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 13:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 13:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 13:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 13:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 13:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 13:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 13:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 13:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 13:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge