Ezekiel 20:4; Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 3:8-10; Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 15:20
Render it: I have set thee among My people as a prover of ore, And thou shalt know and try their way. They are all of them rebels of rebels (...
I have set (u) thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. (u) Meaning, Jeremiah, whom God had app...
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...
The Prophet says, that he was set by God as a watchtower, which was also fortified, that he might observe the wickedness of the people. In...
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. I have set thee for a tower and a fortress -...
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 th...
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. I have set thee for a tower and a fortre...
1-8. The hostile army approaches.
A tower] RM 'trier,' or tester. A fortress ] He shall have God's protection in his task.
I have set thee... — The verse is difficult, as containing words in the Hebrew which are not found elsewhere, and have therefore to be guessed at....
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 wh...
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 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...
I have set thee for a tower ,.... Or "in" one d; in a watch tower, to look about and observe the actions of the people, their sins and transgression...
I have set thee [for] a tower [and] a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way. Ver. 27. I have set thee for a tower and...
I have set thee for a tower , &c. According to this reading, God speaks here by way of encouragement to the prophet, and tells him he had made h...
Equity of Divine Judgments; Punishment Predicted. B. C. 608....
Here God speaks by way of encouragement to the prophet, and tells him he had made him a fortified tower, that he might both discover the carriages of...
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...
Jeremiah Learns That YHWH Has Established Him As An Assayer Of His People, As Well As Their Fortress, Although All That He Will Discover Will Be Tha...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES . —1. Chronological and Historical position of this chapter the same . (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.) 2. Geographical Ref...
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]...
EXPOSITION A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance....
The Impending Judgment Announced
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among My people, literally, "as a prover," or explorer, and an assayer, one who separates the metal from t...
I have set thee — Here God speaks by way of encouragement to the prophet, and tells him, he had made him a fortified tower, that he might be safe,...
27 I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.