Jeremiah 1:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

made thee. give thee [as].

brasen walls. Some codices, with two early printed editions (one in margin), Targum, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "a wall of bronze" (singular)

against. Note the Figure of speech Anaphora, by which "against" is repeated seven times, in order to emphasize the fact that as man's thoughts and ways are the opposite of Jehovah's (Isaiah 55:8), it is impossible for. prophet who is Jehovah's spokesman to be other than "against" man. See App-49.

the kings of Judah. See Jeremiah 36.

the princes. See Jeremiah 37 and Jeremiah 38.

the priests. See Jeremiah 20 and Jeremiah 26.

the People. See Jeremiah 34:19; Jeremiah 37:2; Jeremiah 44:21; Jeremiah 52:6.

Jeremiah 1:18

18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.