Jeremiah 6:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. ”

• Jeremiah 6:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet's Task. The record of earlier prophecies ( Jeremiah 6:1-6 ) fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the trier ( mg. ) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  brass and iron. Not silver and gold. Compare Ezekiel 22:18 .

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  The Prophet now shews what he found the Jews to be, whose manners and proceedings he had been commanded to observe. Had he said this at first, either the fury of the people would have been kind...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I have set thee for a tower, &c.— The prophet in these verses evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such t...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. Grievous revolters - literally, contumacious of the contumacious - i:e., most contuma...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-8. The hostile army approaches.

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Grievous revolters... — Literally, rebels of rebels, as a Hebraism for the worst type of rebellion. Walking with slanders. — The phrase was a common one ( Leviticus 19:16 ; Proverbs 11:13 ;...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - 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 6:28 - 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 6:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier o...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  They are all grievous revolters ,.... From the right way of God and his worship: or, they are all revolters of revolters e; of all, the greatest revolters, the greatest sinners and transgressors,...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  They [are] all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: [they are] brass and iron; they [are] all corrupters. Ver. 28. They are all grievous revolters. ] Heb., Revolters of revolters. Chald., Pr...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  They are all grievous revolters Obstinate and refractory; walking with slanders Making it their business to detract from thee and the other prophets. Blaney translates the clause, They are all o...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. B. C. 608.       18 Therefore hear, ye nat...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Grievous revolters; obstinate and refractory, Isaiah 31:6 Jeremiah 5:3,23 . Walking with slanders; being their main business to detract from thee and the other prophets, Jeremiah 18:18 ,...

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - 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 6:28 - 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 6:28 - 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 6:28 - 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 6:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Impending Judgment Announced

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• Jeremiah 6:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 22:18-22 ; Isaiah 1:4 ; Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 31:6 ; Jeremiah 18:18 ; Jeremiah 20:10 ; Jeremiah 5:23 ; Jeremiah 6:30 ; Jeremiah 9:4 ; Psalms 50:20 ; Revelation 11:18 ; Revelation 19...

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