“ Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. ”
Their quiver - See Jeremiah 4:29 , note.
Their quiver [is] as an (p) open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men. (p) Who will kill many with their arrows.
The Coming of the Foe. Let the enemy, therefore, destroy the vineyard of Judah, for of its owner Judah has said, He does nothing, rejecting His warnings by (true) prophets. The word they have rejec...
The Prophet had already threatened the Jews with the vengeance of God, and had said that the ministers and executioners of it would be the Chaldeans: he now continues the same subject, and says...
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. Their quiver is an open sepulcher - They are such exact archers as never to miss their mark; every arrow is sure to slay one man.
Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men. Open sepulchre - (cf. Psalms 5:9 ). Their quiver is all-devouring, as the grave opened to receive the dead: as many as are the...
1-9. The universal corruption of the city prevents forgiveness.
An open sepulchre. — Every arrow in the quivers of the Chaldæan bowmen was to be as a messenger of death, a blast or pestilence from the grave.
Jeremiah 5:1-31 ; Jeremiah 6:1-30 CHAPTER IV THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30 IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages of p...
Having thus declared that judgment was determined on, the prophet now carefully declared the reason for it. This was, first, the utter corruption of conduct. Among the people not a man was to lie fou...
Reader! do as the Psalmist did, after reading these verses, and say, I will sing of mercy and judgment. And let your song as his was, be dedicated to the Lord: for to the Lord alone the praise and gl...
Their quiver is an open sepulchre ,.... The Chaldeans used bows and arrows in fighting; and the quiver is a case for arrows; and the phrase denotes, that their arrows would do great execution, and b...
Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men. Ver. 16. Their quiver is an open sepulchre. ] As holding arrows that wound deadly, and that shall despatch many, being drenched i...
Wherefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts The prophet now, in the name of God, answers the blasphemous speeches of these infidels, ascribing to Jehovah that power and supremacy which were calcula...
Divine Judgments Threatened; Divine Judgments Vindicated. B. C. 608. 10 Go ye up upon...
Quiver; collectively expressed for quivers; a synecdoche for the whole military preparations, and a metonymy of the containing for the contained, viz. the arrows that will be shot out of them, call...
YHWH Presents The Reasons Why The Invasion Is Necessary ( Jeremiah 5:1-31 ). Invasion is seen as necessary because there are no righteous people in Jerusalem, and they are full of adultery (both s...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the chapter . The description here of unblushing immorality and total disorganisation leads Kimchi and others to date this chapter after Josiah’s time...
Jeremiah 5:10-12 . Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for the are not the LORD'S. For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt ve...
Jeremiah 5:2 . Though they say the Lord liveth, surely they swear falsely. These words being in every one's mouth, are but words, not sentiments. If men knew the grandeur of God, and studied his p...
EXPOSITION Is the punishment thought too severe? Then let the moral condition of Jerusalem be inquired into. Must not such transgressions precipitate its people into ruin? There are four well-ma...
Faithlessness and Treachery
Isaiah 5:28 ; Psalms 5:9 ; Romans 3:13