“ So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. ”
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...
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So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins.
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it on my loins. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
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...
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...
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 spared no pains, and thought nothing of his trouble to follow up the Lord's commissions. Euphrates was no small distance from Jerusalem: but yet we find thither the Prophet went both to carr...
So I got a girdle ,.... Or, bought n a linen one, as directed: according to the word of the Lord ; his express order and command; the prophet was not disobedient to the heavenly vision: and I pu...
So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put [it] on my loins. Ver. 2. So I got a girdle. ] God is to be obeyed readily, and without questioning.
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...
The Marred Girdle. B. C. 606. 1 Thus saith the L ORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen g...
According to the word of the Lord; that is, according to God's command. And put it on my loins; and used it as God commanded me, never disputing the reason why God bid me do such a thing.
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...
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 . 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...
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...
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...
The Symbol of the Girdle
Ezekiel 2:8 ; Hosea 1:2 ; Hosea 1:3 ; Isaiah 20:2 ; John 13:6 ; John 13:7 ; John 15:14 ; Proverbs 3:5