“ So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. ”
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 went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. No JFB commentary on this verse.
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...
THE SIN OF PRIDE ‘Be not proud.’ Jeremiah 13:5 The heart is not pure that is not cleansed from pride. I. How lightly we treat this sin of pride! —What is pride? It is the sin that leads m...
So I went and hid it by Euphrates ,.... Or, "in" o it; in a hole of the rock, upon the banks of it: as the Lord commanded me : all this seems to be done not really, but visionally; it can hardly b...
So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. Ver. 5. So I went and hid it by Euphrates. ] In the cliff of a rock, where it might lie dry, never once asking the reason. This was si...
The Marred Girdle. B. C. 606. 1 Thus saith the L ORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen g...
Most think that Jeremiah did this but in a vision, for it was a very long journey for the prophet to take to go from Anathoth or Jerusalem as far as Euphrates. Jeremiah was obedient to God's command,...
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
2 Timothy 2:3 ; Acts 26:19 ; Acts 26:20 ; Exodus 39:42 ; Exodus 39:43 ; Exodus 40:16 ; Hebrews 11:17-19 ; Hebrews 11:8 ; John 2:5-8 ; Matthew 22:2-6
So — Most think Jeremiah did this in a vision, for it was a very long journey from Anathoth to Euphrates.