Jeremiah 18:13 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. ”

Jeremiah 18:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The contrast between the chaste retirement of a virgin and Judah’s eagerness after idolatry, serves to heighten the horror at her conduct.
Jeremiah 18:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Potter and the Clay. The potter ( Jeremiah 18:1-4 ) moulding his clay on the upper stone, which he makes revolve by his feet resting on the connected lower stone, is compared with Yahweh in His...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

heathen . nations.
Jeremiah 18:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

God shews here that the Jews were become wholly irreclaimable, for they arrived at the highest pitch of impiety, when they were so daring as to reject the salvation offered to them; for what ha...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. The virgin of Israel - Instead of ישראל Yisrael, three o...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. Ask ye now among the pagan, who hath heard such...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-17. Figure of the potter's clay.
Jeremiah 18:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ask ye now among the heathen. — The appeal of Jeremiah 2:10-11 is renewed. Judah had not been true, even as heathen nations were true, to its inherited faith and worship. The virgin daughter of I...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XI THE DIVINE POTTER Jeremiah 18:1-23 JEREMIAH goes down into the Lower Town, or the valley between the upper and lower city; and there his attention is arrested by a potter sitting at...
Jeremiah 18:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

We now come to the second series of messages before the fall of Jerusalem (18-20), which consists of declarations of God's absolute supremacy. In preparation for this, Jeremiah was sent to the house...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a striking expostulation is in the opening of these verses? The Lord sends his people to ask of the heathen, among whom it was never known, of such apostasy from their dunghill gods, as Israel m...
Jeremiah 18:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord ,.... This being the case of the people of the Jews, and they so resolutely bent on their own ways: ask ye among the Heathen ; inquire among the nations of the world,...
Jeremiah 18:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing. Ver. 13. Therefore thus saith the Lord. ] God himself...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ask ye now among the heathen Such an apostacy as you are guilty of (see Jer 18:15) is not to be paralleled among the heathen. Compare Jeremiah 2:10 . Who hath heard such things When did people e...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

People of God Accused and Threatened; Folly of Idolatry. B. C. 600. 11 Now therefore g...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

God was moved at this desperate obstinacy and hardness of this people's hearts, he appeals to the world whether ever any heathens behaved themselves so towards their idols, which were no gods, as thi...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Because Of Their Refusal To Respond To His ‘Shaping' He Will Now ‘Shape' Evil Against Them Unless They Now Repent. His Offer Being Turned Down God Calls On The Nations To Be Astonished Witnesses Of...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. Early in Jehoiakim’s reign (See Chronological Note on Section 19–27 of previous chapter). Probably about two years later than that mes...
Jeremiah 18:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 18:6 . As the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand. The sense is given in the next words; the exaltation, or the degradation of a nation, is wholly with the Lord. If they, u...
Jeremiah 18:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This chapter is the introduction of a group of prophecies (extending to Jeremiah 25:1-24 .) of various dates; their sequence has evidently not been determined by chronological consid...
Jeremiah 18:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Parable Further Applied
Jeremiah 18:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 5:1 ; 1 Samuel 4:7 ; Hosea 6:10 ; Isaiah 36:22 ; Isaiah 66:8 ; Jeremiah 14:17 ; Jeremiah 2:10-13 ; Jeremiah 2:13 ; Jeremiah 23:14 ; Jeremiah 31:4 ; Jeremiah 5:30 ; Lamentati...

Jeremiah 18:13 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 18:13 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 18:13 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 18:13 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 18:13 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 18:13 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 18:13 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 18:13 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 18:13 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 18:13 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 18:13 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 18:13 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge