searched. reconnoitred.
grasshoppers. locusts.
Or, “They have cut down her forest, saith Yahweh, for it is impenetrable,” i. e., just as a pathless forest must be cleared to assist agriculture a...
They shall cut down (u) her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the (x) grasshoppers, and [are] innumer...
Jeremiah 46-51. The Foreign Prophecies. These form the third principal division of the Book of Jeremiah. As already seen ( Jeremiah 1:5 ; Jeremiah...
He goes on here with the same subject. He indeed uses the past tense, but we know that this was commonly done by the Prophets. He compares the...
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable. The...
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable....
Against Egypt 1. Against the Gentiles] RV 'concerning the nations 'around.
Her forest ] her beauty: cp. Jeremiah 21:14 . Grasshoppers] RV 'locusts.'
CHAPTER XVII EGYPT Jeremiah 43:8-13 , Jeremiah 44:30 , Jeremiah 46:1-28 "I will visit Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods an...
The third and last section of the division containing the account of the prophet's ministry is occupied with his messages concerning the nations. Th...
If the Reader will compare scripture with scripture, which is always the most profitable way of reading the word of God; he will find, that what Jere...
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord ,.... The land of Egypt, compared to a forest, for the multitude of its cities and towns, and the inh...
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and [are] innumerable. V...
The voice thereof shall go like a serpent “That is, her (Egypt's) voice shall be low and inarticulate through fear. This passage seems to be an imi...
The Judgment of Egypt. B. C. 608. 12...
Egypt is compared to a forest, either for the multitude of cities or of people in that country; and to a thick forest, because as it is a hard thing...
B). Oracle Concerning Nebuchadrezzar's Later Penetration Into Egypt Which Will Not However Be Terminal ( Jeremiah 46:13-26 ). This prophecy here h...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter.— First Part: Jeremiah 46:1-12 , in the fourth year of Jehoiakim; written at Jerusal...
Jeremiah 46:1 . The Gentiles. The succeeding six Chapter s ought to have followed the twenty fifth chapter of this book, as they do in the Vatican...
EXPOSITION This chapter, the first of a series, consists of two prophecies united, though it is probable enough that the latter was intended to...
The Second Prophecy Against Egypt
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched, it was impossible to estimate the number of the enemy; because they ar...
Ezekiel 20:46 ; Isaiah 10:18 ; Joel 2:25 ; Judges 6:5 ; Judges 7:12 ; Revelation 9:2-10
Tho' — Tho' it seem impenetrable.
23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.