Jeremiah 16:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. ”

Jeremiah 16:8 - 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 16:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the Prophet refers to other feasts, where hilarity prevailed. The meaning then is, — that the people were given up to destruction, so that nothing was better than to depart from them as fa...
Jeremiah 16:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting - Funeral banquets were made to commemorate the dead, and co...
Jeremiah 16:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. Thou shall not go into the house of feasting - joyous, as distinguished from mourning-feasts. Have no...
Jeremiah 16:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot.
Jeremiah 16:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Into the house of feasting. — Literally, the house of drinking, i.e., in this case, as interpreted by the next verse, of festive and mirthful gathering. This prohibition follows à fortiori from...
Jeremiah 16:8 - 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 16:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

As the Lord prohibited the prophet from mourning in Babylon, so, from feasting; both were alike unsuitable, while the Comforter was far away. I pray the Reader to notice in both views the preciousnes...
Jeremiah 16:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou shall not also go into the house of feasting ,.... Which it was lawful to do, and which the prophet doubtless had done at other times; but now a time of calamity coming on, it was not proper he...
Jeremiah 16:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. Ver. 8. Thou shall not also go into the house of feasting. ] Ministers may lawfully go to feasts, Joh 2:1-2...
Jeremiah 16:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting God not only forbade his prophet to go into houses of mourning, but forbade him also to go into houses where people were wont to eat and drink on j...
Jeremiah 16:8 - 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 16:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

God did not only forbade his prophet to go into houses of mourning, to eat and to drink according to their custom, to comfort those who had lost their friends; but he forbade him also to go into hous...
Jeremiah 16:8 - 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 16:8 - 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 16:8 - 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 16:8 - 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 16:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Instruction Of Jehovah
Jeremiah 16:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 5:11 ; Amos 6:4-6 ; Ecclesiastes 7:2-4 ; Ephesians 5:11 ; Isaiah 22:12-14 ; Jeremiah 15:17 ; Luke 17:27-29 ; Matthew 24:38 ; Psalms 26:4
Jeremiah 16:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Go — God did not only forbid his prophet to go into houses of mourning, but forbad him to go into houses, where they were wont to eat and drink upon a more chearful account.

Jeremiah 16:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 16:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 16:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 16:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 16:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 16:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 16:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 16:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 16:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 16:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes