“ Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ”
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...
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. 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...
The signs and types are doubly beautiful, and interesting, which God the Holy Ghost himself explains. And here we have the Lord's own illustration of it. Our whole nature was marred by sin; and when...
Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying. Or the word of prophecy from before the Lord, as the Targum; and now follows the application of this sign to the thing signified, and the whole inten...
Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 8. Then the word, &c. ] Adaptat simile. fit simile, See Jeremiah 13:3 .
The Marred Girdle. B. C. 606. 1 Thus saith the L ORD unto me, Go and get thee a linen g...
No text from Poole on this verse.
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