Jeremiah 21:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But I will punishc you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. ”

• Jeremiah 21:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The forest - This suggested to the Jew the idea of everything grand and stately.

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire (h) in its forest, and it shall devour all things around it. (h) That is, in the houses of it, w...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  kindle. fire, &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 32:22 ). App-92. the forest thereof . her forest. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the timber from Lebanon use...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  But God, on the contrary, says, Behold I will come to thee, or against thee, and will visit thee. There is, indeed, a change of number; for he says, I will visit you, for he had b...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. I will kindle a fire in the...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. I will punish you a...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  11-14 . Exhortation and warning to the royal house.

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof. — The “forest” thus referred to may be either literally the woods, then covering a larger surface than in later times, at Kirjath-jearim ( Psalms 132:6 ;...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The final series before the fall of Jerusalem consists of messages delivered to Zedekiah (21-27). The occasion of these was, in the first place, Zedekiah's deputation to the prophet. The scourge whic...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It was the glory of Jerusalem, and for which the Prophet boasted, that she should be a quiet habitation, whose tabernacle should not be taken down, nor one of her stakes removed. But this was because...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings , saith the Lord ,.... The situation of their city, and the strength of its fortifications, however sufficient they might be thought to...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it. Ver. 14. But I will puni...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain A description of Jerusalem, which was built in part upon the rocky mountain of Zion, but a great part of it was in the v...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Answer to Zedekiah's Message; Advice to the King and the People. B. C. 590.       8 And unto...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I will punish you; in the Hebrew it is, I will visit upon you . God's visitations are either of mercy , Psalms 80:14 , Psalms 106:4 , or of judgment ; therefore the sense is here rightly giv...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  A General Plea To The House Of David Not To Be Presumptious But To Exercise Justice and Mercy If They Would Escape Judgment ( Jeremiah 21:11-14 ). Jeremiah now makes a general plea to ‘the house o...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. Beginning of Zedekiah’s reign. Vide Notes, and especially Personal Allusions to chap. 1. Usher dates the chapter B.C. 589; Hales...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 21:1 . Pashur the son of Melchiah, a different person from the Pashur named in the preseding chapter, who was son of Immer. Jeremiah 21:8 . I set before you the way of life, and the wa...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The chapter falls into three parts, two of which seem to be in some sort of connection, while the third is isolated. First comes a warning to the messengers of Zedekiah of the unfortu...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A Message to Judah and its King

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 36:19 ; Ezekiel 20:46-48 ; Galatians 6:7 ; Galatians 6:8 ; Isaiah 10:12 ; Isaiah 10:18 ; Isaiah 10:19 ; Isaiah 24:21 ; Isaiah 27:10 ; Isaiah 27:11 ; Isaiah 3:10 ; Isaiah 3:11...

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• Jeremiah 21:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The forest — By the forest he either means the forest of Lebanon or their houses, made of wood cut out of that forest. And it — And this fire shall not end in the destruction of this city, but in t...

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