Jeremiah 16:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,a neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies. ”

Jeremiah 16:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For thus saith the LORD, (b) Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mer...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:1 to Jeremiah 17:18 . The Coming Distress a Penalty for Sin. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows ( cf. 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which deat...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

taken away. Hebrew. 'asaph. . Homonym, with two meanings: (1) to protect, or heal ( Numbers 12:14 ; Numbers 12:15 ; 2 Kings 5:6 ; Psalms 27:10 ); (2) to snatch away ( Psalms 26:9 ; Psalms 16...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

As Jeremiah was forbidden at the beginning of the chapter to take a wife, for a dreadful devastation of the whole land was very nigh; so now God confirms what he had previously said, that so gr...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and merci...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot.
Jeremiah 16:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The house of mourning. — Better, mourning-feast. The word is found only here and in Amos 6:7 , where it is translated “banquet.” So the Vulg. gives here domus convivii, and the LXX. the Greek...
Jeremiah 16:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism, commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to say,...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I venture to read this precept given to Jeremiah concerning marriage while in Babylon, both with a national and spiritual view. No alliances were to be made by the people of God, with their idolatrou...
Jeremiah 16:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For thus saith the Lord, enter not into the house of mourning ,.... On account of his dead relations or neighbours; since they were taken away from the evil to come, and therefore no occasion to mou...
Jeremiah 16:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, [even] lovingkindness and mercies...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Enter not into the house of mourning Or, of a mourning feast , according to the reading in the margin, the word מרזח, occurring also Amos 6:7 , and being there rendered a banquet. The sense see...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prohibitions Given to Jeremiah. B. C. 605. 1 The word of the L ORD came also unto me, s...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBHeb; Mourning, xzdj There is so great a difference in the translation of this word, that, Amos 6:7 , the very same word signifieth a banquet, and is so translated; yet is there no contradictio...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah Was Not To Take A Wife Or Have Sons And Daughters, Attend Funerals, Or Participate in Feasting, As A Sign Of The Devastation That Was Coming On Judah Which Would Transform Life For All Its...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. Chapter s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows that this message from God was delivered before the cap...
Jeremiah 16:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 16:2 . Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place. The prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour...
Jeremiah 16:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of Jeremiah 17:1-24 . The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses the contents of Jeremiah 17:1-24 , provided th...
Jeremiah 16:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Instruction Of Jehovah
Jeremiah 16:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 15:5 ; 2 Chronicles 15:6 ; Deuteronomy 31:17 ; Ezekiel 24:16-23 ; Isaiah 27:11 ; Jeremiah 15:1-4 ; Jeremiah 16:6 ; Jeremiah 16:7 ; Revelation 6:4 ; Zechariah 8:10
Jeremiah 16:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Enter not — Do not go to comfort such as mourn for any relations dead, (for their feastings upon those occasions were upon a consolatory account) those that die are most happy, for I will take away...

Jeremiah 16:5 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 16:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 16:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 16:5 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 16:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 16:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 16:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 16:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 16:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 16:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 16:5 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes