Jeremiah 6:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. ”

• Jeremiah 6:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Turned - Violently transferred. Houses, fields, wives, all they most valued, and most jealously kept to themselves - are gone.

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Justification of Yahweh's Wrath. The turn of Judah, the remnant of Israel, is now come, and Yahweh bids the foe, figured as a grape-gatherer at work on the vine (see on Jeremiah 2:21 ) to do h...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  turned unto others. Reference to Pentateuch ( Deuteronomy 28:30 ). saith the LORD . [is] Jehovah's oracle.

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  One kind of vengeance only he mentions, — that the Jews would be deprived of their land, which they thought would ever remain in peace to them. Inasmuch as it had been said, “ This is my rest...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. Their houses shall be turn...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-8. The hostile army approaches.

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe, acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  All these are so many gracious expostulations suited to the state of the Church, in all her seasons of affliction. I need not enlarge on them. They express that deadness, that leanness of soul, that...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And their houses shall be turned unto others ,.... To strangers, to the Chaldeans; they shall be transferred unto them, come into their hands, and become their property: with their fields and wive...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And their houses shall be turned unto others, [with their] fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. Ver. 12. With their fields an...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Therefore I am full of the fury את חמת, the anger , or wrath , as it should rather have been rendered; of the Lord An expression which is to be understood of that divine justice which is worthy...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Universal Corruption of the Age. B. C. 608.       9 Thus saith the L ORD of hosts, They...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Their houses shall be turned unto others, i.e. their houses and their lands shall be devolved or turned over to strangers, Jeremiah 8:10 , even that land which they thought had been entailed upo...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  In View Of Judah's Failure To Respond To His Warnings YHWH Stresses That The Invasion Is Now Imminent ( Jeremiah 6:1-30 ). Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had given...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES . —1. Chronological and Historical position of this chapter the same . (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. Geographical References. — Jeremiah 6:1 . “ Tekoa: ” a small town...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Jeremiah 6:1 . Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of Jerusalem. Many of this tribe lived in the city. Blow the trumpet [of alarm] in Tekoa, a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance. Jeremiah 6:1-24 Arrival of a hostile army fro...

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Prophet Voices the Fury of the Lord

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• Jeremiah 6:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 21:16 ; Deuteronomy 28:30-33 ; Deuteronomy 28:39-43 ; Isaiah 10:4 ; Isaiah 5:25 ; Isaiah 65:21 ; Isaiah 65:22 ; Isaiah 9:12 ; Isaiah 9:17 ; Isaiah 9:21 ; Jeremiah 8:10 ; Lame...

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