Jeremiah 13:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. ”

• Jeremiah 13:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Shall be shut up - Rather, “are shut up, and no man openeth them.” The cities of the Negeb, the southern district of Judah, are blockaded, with no one to raise the siege. The captivity was the in...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The cities of (h) the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. (h) That is, of Judah, which lies so...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  cities. So in Codex "Mugah"; but Codex "Hallel" (both quoted in the Massorah) reads "eyes". the south . the Negeb. See note on Psalms 126:4 . Compare Genesis 12:9 ; Genesis 13:3 .

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  By the cities of the south, almost all understand the cities of the tribe of Judah, whose portion was towards the south; and by the cities being shut up, they consider that what is meant is,...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them : Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. The cities of the south shall be shut up...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The cities of the south shall be shut up— "The cities in the southern parts of Judaea shall be shut up, because there shall be no inhabitants. All the lot of Judah, heretofore so beautiful, so well...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. Cities of the south - namely, south...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jeremiah's Seventh Prophecy (Reign of Jehoiachin). The Linen Girdle The date of this prophecy is shown pretty clearly by the word 'queen' ( Jeremiah 13:18 ), which means queen-mother, namely, Nehu...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The cities of the south. — The term thus rendered (the Negeb ) is throughout the Old Testament used for a definite district, stretching from Mount Halak northward to a line south of Engedi and Heb...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I interrupt not the reading of those verses, because they are connected. They contain the solemn expostulation of the Lord, in the view of their sins. They point out also the utter impossibility of t...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them ,.... Meaning the cities of Judah, which lay in the southern part of the land of Israel, and to the south of Babylon; which might b...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open [them]: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive. Ver. 19. The cities of the south sha...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The cities of the south , &c. The cities of Judah, which lay in the southern part of Canaan, shall be straitly besieged by the enemy, so that there shall be no going in and out; or shall be dese...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Bottles Filled with Wine; Punishment Predicted; A Call to Repentance. B. C.  606.       12 T...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Either the cities of Judah which lay southward from Chaldea, and therefore their enemies in the next verse are said to come from the north, and this great evil is said to have come from the north; or...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A Final Appeal For Repentance Before It Is Too Late, For if They Do Fail To Respond Their Final Judgment Will Come Upon Them ( Jeremiah 13:15-27 ). The people are called on to look to YHWH while t...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  An Exhortation with Regard to the Impending Destruction

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 25:21 ; Deuteronomy 28:15 ; Deuteronomy 28:52 ; Deuteronomy 28:64-68 ; Ezekiel 20:46 ; Ezekiel 20:47 ; Jeremiah 17:26 ; Jeremiah 33:13 ; Jeremiah 39:9 ; Jeremiah 52:27 ; Job 12:14...

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• Jeremiah 13:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The cities — The cities of Judah lay southward from Chaldea.

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