“ Reprobatee silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. ”
Reprobate - See the margin; not really silver, but the dross. The Lord hath rejected them - This then is the end. The smelter is God’s prophet: the bellows the breath of inspiration: the flux...
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...
Reprobate... rejected. Note the Figure of speech Paronomasia (App-6). Hebrew. nim'as... ma'as: i.e. rejected (silver)... rejected (them). Compare Isaiah 1:22 . Ezekiel 22:18 .
Jeremiah concludes his subject by saying, — that if the Jews had been cast a hundred times into the furnace, they would not be improved, as they would never become softened on account of their...
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].
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...
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. Reprobate silver - silver so full of alloy as to be utterly worthless ( Isaiah 1:22 , "Thy silver is become dross")....
1-8. The hostile army approaches.
Reprobate silver. — Better, as in the margin, refuse silver; the dross and not the metal; so worthless that even Jehovah, as the great refiner, rejects it utterly, as yielding nothing. The adject...
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,...
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...
Reprobate silver shall men call them ,.... Or, "call ye them" i, as the Targum; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; by whom are meant the Jews, who thought themselves of some acco...
Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. Ver. 30. Reprobate a silver shall men call them.] Dross and refuse, rather than pure metal; "silver" they would seem...
Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. B. C. 608. 18 Therefore hear, ye nat...
Reprobate silver; or, Refuse silver ; such as will be rejected in payments; they are not to be purged or reformed. Shall men call them; or, be called , i.e. they shall be esteemed such as will...
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,...
The bellows are burnt. The bellows burnt Apply to-- I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people were impressed. So also with Noah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus Him...
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
Ezekiel 22:18 ; Ezekiel 22:19 ; Hosea 9:17 ; Isaiah 1:22 ; Isaiah 1:25 ; Jeremiah 14:19 ; Lamentations 5:22 ; Matthew 5:13 ; Proverbs 25:4 ; Psalms 119:119 ; Romans 11:1
Refuse — Such as will be rejected in payments.