“ Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. ”
God summons three witnesses to hear His sentence. (1) the Gentiles. (2) all mankind, Jews and Gentiles. (3) nature (see Jeremiah 6:19 ). What is among them - Rather, “what happens” in th...
Therefore hear, ye (q) nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them. (q) God takes all the world to witness and the insensible creatures of the ingratitude of the Jews.
Jeremiah 6:16-21 . Obedience more than Sacrifice. Yahweh vainly bade the people stand at the parting of the ways (Hebrew, by the ways), and seek the ancient road to prosperity, that they may find...
congregation . assembly (in its civil aspect). Hebrew. 'edah, . technical Pentateuchal word. First occurrence in Exodus 12:3 ; Exodus 12:6 ; Exodus 12:19 ; Exodus 12:47 . Used technically of Is...
He turns now to address the nations, which had never heard anything of true religion. But the design of the apostrophe was, to make the Jews ashamed of their insensibility and deafness, for mor...
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
Therefore hear, ye nations— "You, Chaldeans, and all the various people who compose the army coming against Jerusalem; nay, let all the world ( Jeremiah 6:19 .) be witnesses of the resolutions whic...
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them. Congregation - parallel to "nations;" it therefore means the gathered peoples who invited to be witnesses how great i...
1-8. The hostile army approaches.
Therefore hear, ye nations... — The obstinate refusal with which the people met the summons of the prophet leads him once more to a solemn appeal (1) to the heathen nations, then (2) to the “congre...
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...
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,...
In what strong terms doth the Lord set forth the folly of outward things, as the incense and the cane, when there was no inward offering of the heart. What are all acts of religion, when there is no...
Therefore hear, ye nations ,.... Since the Jews refused to hearken to the word of the Lord, the Gentiles are called upon to hear it, as in Acts 13:45 , this is a rebuke to the Jews, that the Gentil...
Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what [is] among them. Ver. 18. Therefore hear, O ye nations. ] For this people will not hear me, though I speak never so good reason. Scaliger...
Therefore hear, ye nations The very heathen are called upon to take notice of these threatenings and denunciations of God's wrath against the Jews, lest they should think that the calamities which...
Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. B. C. 608. 18 Therefore hear, ye nat...
Ver. 18, Hear, ye nations: he calls upon the nations round about to be as so many spectators of his severity against Judah, though they were his own people. 1. Partly to vindicate the justice of...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Impending Judgment Announced
Deuteronomy 29:24-28 ; Isaiah 5:3 ; Jeremiah 31:10 ; Jeremiah 4:10 ; Micah 6:5 ; Psalms 50:4-6
Nations — He calls upon the nations round about to be spectators of his severity against Judah. What — The greatness of their punishment, as the effect of the greatness of their sins.