Jeremiah 46:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. ”

Jeremiah 46:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Translate it with the versions: “They have called (or, Call ye) the name of Pharaoh king of Egypt - A noise: he hath overstepped the appointed time.” For this custom of giving prophetic names see...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he (o) hath passed the time appointed. (o) He derides them who blame their overthrow on lack of counsel and policy, or to fortune and not ob...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46-51. The Foreign Prophecies. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen ( Jeremiah 1:5 ; Jeremiah 1:10 ; Jeremiah 25:15 ), Jeremiah's prophetic ho...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

noise . sound. passed . let pass over. Compare 2 Samuel 20:5 .
Jeremiah 46:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

This verse ought to be joined with the preceding, for he refers to the cries of the soldiers who had been deceived by their own hopes: they at length cried, Pharaoh is to us a king of confusi...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. They did cry there - Dr. Blayney translates this cry thus: - - "O Pharaoh, king of Egypt, A tumult ha...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

They did cry there, &c.— They cried there to Pharaoh, king of Egypt; the storm or shock has already passed the appointed time. Houbigant. See Isaiah 10:3 .
Jeremiah 46:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. They did cry there - in their own country severally, the foreign soldiers ( Jeremiah 46:16 ) cry,...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Against Egypt 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around.
Jeremiah 46:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They did cry there... — Better, Th ere they cry ... The difficulty of the verse has led to very various renderings. The meaning of the English version is that the exiles returning to their own la...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8-13 , Jeremiah 44:30 , Jeremiah 46:1-28 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods and their kings: even Pharaoh and all them that trus...
Jeremiah 46:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. The first of these has to do with Egypt, and consist...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If the Reader will compare scripture with scripture, which is always the most profitable way of reading the word of God; he will find, that what Jeremiah is here engaged in, Isaiah had been before hi...
Jeremiah 46:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They did cry there ,.... Not the Chaldeans, deriding Pharaoh and his army, and mocking them, saying the following words, as some; nor the Egyptians in Egypt, as Kimchi, complaining of their king; mu...
Jeremiah 46:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt [is but] a noise; he hath passed the time appointed. Ver. 17. Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise, ] a A mere flash, one that vaunteth and vapoureth, a...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He made many to fall Or, as the Vulgate renders הרבה כושׁל, multiplicavit ruentes, he multiplied those falling , or more literally, the faller , as in the margin, the word being singular. Blaney...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Judgment of Egypt. B. C. 608. 12 The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That is, the Ethiopians and Lubims that should come to help the king of Egypt should cry, or the Chaldeans or the Egyptians themselves should cry, Pharaoh is but a noise, that is, hath made a great n...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

B). Oracle Concerning Nebuchadrezzar's Later Penetration Into Egypt Which Will Not However Be Terminal ( Jeremiah 46:13-26 ). This prophecy here has in mind a much later excursion of Nebuchadrezza...
Jeremiah 46:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter.— First Part: Jeremiah 46:1-12 , in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written at Jerusalem, immediately before the battle of Charchemish....
Jeremiah 46:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 46:1 . The Gentiles. The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint. Jerem...
Jeremiah 46:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise. Religious judgments How the Bible can torment its adversaries!--mock them, contemn them, dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Yet it is never mere c...
Jeremiah 46:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to supplement the former, for Jeremiah 46:2-24 are...
Jeremiah 46:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Second Prophecy Against Egypt
Jeremiah 46:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 20:10 ; 1 Kings 20:18 ; Exodus 15:9 ; Ezekiel 29:3 ; Ezekiel 31:18 ; Isaiah 19:11-16 ; Isaiah 31:3 ; Isaiah 37:27-29
Jeremiah 46:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Pharaoh — Hath made a great noise, but it cometh to nothing. Passed — That is, he hath passed the time himself fixed when he would cone, and fight the Chaldeans.

Jeremiah 46:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 46:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 46:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 46:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 46:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 46:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 46:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 46:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 46:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 46:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 46:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 46:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 46:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes