Jeremiah 6:22

the sides, &c. Idiom for. great distance.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Raised - Or, awakened, to undertake distant expeditions. The sides of the earth - Or ends, the most distant regions (see Jeremiah 25:32 ).
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the (s) north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. (s) From Ba...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Foe from the North is again described ( cf. Jeremiah 5:15-17 ) in his advance against Jerusalem ( Jeremiah 6:22-23 ). Its inhabitants utter t...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

It was no useless repetition when the Prophet said so often that God said. He might have said only, “Behold, a nation shall come from the no...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, a people, &c.— The Chaldeans are here again described as in chap. Jeremiah 5:15 , &c. a distant nation, violent, cruel, armed with...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. A people...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-8. The hostile army approaches.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The sides of the earth ] an expression for the far distance.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

From the north country... — The words point, as in Jeremiah 1:13-15 , to the Chaldæan, perhaps, also, to the Scythian, invasion. So the “north q...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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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....
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 reprob...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thus saith the Lord, behold, a people cometh from the north country ,.... The Assyrians from Babylon, which lay north of Judea, as in Jeremiah 1:14...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth. Ver. 22. Thus...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people I will suffer such things to be laid in their way as shall be the occasion of their destruct...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. B. C. 608....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Now the prophet is showing what these destructive stumbling-blocks shall be, of which he had prophesied forty years already, and yet they would not b...
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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Now Describes The Total Intransigence Of His People And Dismisses Their Attempts To Pacify Him By Religious Ritual And Offerings, Confirming To...
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 Ref...
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]...
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....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Impending Judgment Announced
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth, from its remotes...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 1:14 ; Jeremiah 1:15 ; Jeremiah 10:22 ; Jeremiah 25:9 ; Jeremiah 5:15 ; Jeremiah 50:41-43 ; Jeremiah 6:1
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Behold — God shall stir up the Chaldeans like a great storm. The sides — The uttermost parts of the Babylonian territories.

²² Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 6:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 6:22