Jeremiah 8:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. ”

Jeremiah 8:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This evil family - The whole Jewish race. Which remain - The words are omitted by the Septuagint and Syriac versions.
Jeremiah 8:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And death shall be chosen (b) rather than life by all the remnant of them that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. (b) Because...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3 . Mourning for Judah's Dead. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishmen...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

evil. Hebrew. ra'a'. App-44. saith the LORD of hosts. See note on Jeremiah 6:6 . Compare 1 Samuel 1:3 .
Jeremiah 8:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He intimates in this verse, that all survivors would be doubly miserable, as it would be better for them to die at once than to pine away in unceasing evils: for they who give another meaning t...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jeremiah 8:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 . Family — Generation.
Jeremiah 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. Deat...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.
Jeremiah 8:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The residue of them that remain. — Once more the emphasis of re-iteration, “the remnant of a remnant.” The “evil family” is the whole house of Israel, but the words contemplate specially the exile...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...
Jeremiah 8:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

It is more than probable, that the ransacking of the sepulchres of the kings of Israel and Judah by the enemy, was more in their view to find treasure, than to show contempt. David's grave we are tol...
Jeremiah 8:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And death shall be chosen rather than life ,.... By them that should be alive in those times, who would be carried captive into other lands, and be used very hardly, and suffer greatly, by the natio...
Jeremiah 8:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts. Ver. 3. A...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And death shall be chosen rather than life Not through a lively and well-grounded hope of happiness in another life, but through an utter despair of any ease in this life. It denotes the extremity...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Indignities Threatened to the Dead. B. C. 606. 1 At that time, saith the L ORD , they sh...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

And death shall be chosen rather than life; a description of the unexpressibleness of their misery, that notwithstanding all the barbarism of the Babylonians exercised both upon the bring and the d...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap. 7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4 , which continues to chap....
Jeremiah 8:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:1-2 . At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and t...
Jeremiah 8:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:1 . At that time they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones (as in the Chaldaic) of the false prophets. They shall spread them...
Jeremiah 8:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 8:1-24 Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. Jeremiah 8:1 They shall bring out the bones . Not only shall many of the dead...
Jeremiah 8:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Retribution upon the Jews
Jeremiah 8:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 19:4 ; Daniel 9:7 ; Deuteronomy 30:1 ; Deuteronomy 30:4 ; Jeremiah 20:14-18 ; Jeremiah 23:3 ; Jeremiah 23:8 ; Jeremiah 29:14 ; Jeremiah 29:28 ; Jeremiah 32:36 ; Jeremiah 32:37 ; J...

Jeremiah 8:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 8:3 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 8:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 8:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 8:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 8:3 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 8:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 8:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 8:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge