Jeremiah 46:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. ”

Jeremiah 46:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is like - Or, is. Her god was the steer Apis Jeremiah 46:15 , and she is the spouse. But destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north - More probably, “a gadfly from the north has come upo...
Jeremiah 46:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Egypt [is like] a very (q) fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. (q) They have abundance of all things, and therefore are disobedient and proud.
Jeremiah 46:20 - 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 46:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

heifer. Probably an allusion to Apis , the sacred bull. destruction . piercing. Hebrew. kerez. Occurs only here. Revised Version margin suggests gadfly. If it be so, the attack is on the heife...
Jeremiah 46:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah intimates here, that though Egypt indulged in pleasures, it could not yet escape the vengeance of God. We reminded you yesterday why the Prophets mentioned the wealth, the riches, and...
Jeremiah 46:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. Egypt is like a very fair heifer - Fruitful and useful; but destruction cometh out of the north, from Chaldea...
Jeremiah 46:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Egypt is like a very fair heifer— Egypt is a fair and elegant heifer: the drivers shall come upon her from the north: Jeremiah 46:21 . For her hired men, who in the midst of her were like fatte...
Jeremiah 46:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. Egypt is like as very fair heifer - wanton, like a fat untamed heifer ( Hosea 10:11 ). Appropriate to Egy...
Jeremiah 46:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Against Egypt 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around.
Jeremiah 46:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Egypt is like a very fair heifer. — The similitude points, like the “strong one” of Jeremiah 46:15 , to the Apis worship of Egypt. The nation is like its god. The figure is continued in the words...
Jeremiah 46:20 - 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 46:20 - 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 46:20 - 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 46:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer ,.... Like a heifer that has never been under a yoke, it having never been conquered, and brought under the power of another; and like a beautiful, fat, and well f...
Jeremiah 46:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Egypt [is like] a very fair heifer, [but] destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. Ver. 20. Egypt is like a very fair heifer. ] Vitula elegans, a trim bullock; a worshipping Apis the bu...
Jeremiah 46:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Egypt is like a very fair heifer “In the foregoing verse the prophet compared Egypt to a delicate young woman. Here he resembles her to a fat and well-favoured heifer. In which comparison, as Groti...
Jeremiah 46:20 - 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 46:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That is, Egypt is now in a thriving, prosperous condition, having not used to be under any yoke, like a heifer that is fair and fat; but she will not be so long, she is but as a beast fatted for the...
Jeremiah 46:20 - 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 46:20 - 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 46:20 - 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 46:20 - 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 46:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Second Prophecy Against Egypt
Jeremiah 46:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 10:11 ; Jeremiah 1:14 ; Jeremiah 25:9 ; Jeremiah 46:10 ; Jeremiah 46:6 ; Jeremiah 47:2 ; Jeremiah 50:11
Jeremiah 46:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A serpent — Egypt is now like an heifer that makes a great bellowing, but the time shall come when she shall make a lesser noise like the hissing of a serpent. With axes — For the Chaldeans shall c...

Jeremiah 46:20 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 46:20 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 46:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 46:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 46:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 46:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 46:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 46:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 46:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 46:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 46:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 46:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 46:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes