Jeremiah 8:17

Amos 5:19; Amos 9:3; Deuteronomy 32:24; Ecclesiastes 10:11; Isaiah 14:29; Psalms 58:4; Psalms 58:5; Revelation 9:19

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 8:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will send - Or, am sending. No prophet changes his metaphors so suddenly as Jeremiah. The invading army is now compared to snakes, whom no char...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For, behold, I will (m) send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. (m) God threa...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judah's Unnatural Conduct and its Punishment. There is something unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no inclination...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

cockatrices . adders. will not be charmed. This shows that the People were not penitent, and verses: Jeremiah 8:8 ; Jeremiah 8:14 ; Jeremiah 8...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He increases their terror by another comparison, — that not only enemies would violently attack them, but that their bitings would be venomous....
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. I will send serpen...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Behold, I will send serpents— Under the idea of beasts and venomous creatures are represented inexorable enemies: see chap. Jeremiah 5:6 . Psalms...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. I - Yahweh....
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Cockatrices] RV 'basilisks,' RM 'adders': Jeremiah may have chosen the word because of its resemblance in sound in the Hebrew to the word northern...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Serpents, cockatrices. — There is a sudden change of figure, one new image of terror starting from the history of the fiery serpents of Numbers 21...
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 plai...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

False Promises of Peace Jeremiah 8:4-22 This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the...
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 terribl...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but otherwise n...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you ,.... The Chaldeans, comparable to these noxious and hurtful creatures, because of the mis...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which [will] not [be] charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD. Ver. 17. Behold...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For behold, I send serpents, &c., which shall not be charmed Such enemies as you shall not be able to soften by any entreaties you can use. Tha...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. B. C...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He proceeds in increasing of their terror: q.d. There will be no appeasing or allaying of their fury by any art or method; therefore represented by t...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah Calls On The People To Enter Their Fortified Cities Because The Invaders Are Coming And There Will Be No Peace Terms Accepted Or Healing Of...
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 commenc...
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...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 8:1 . 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 t...
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)...
The Biblical Illustrator

I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you. Penalty There are countries that are desolated by animals; there have been harvests eaten by locu...
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 brin...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Further Description of the Impending Punishment
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, reptiles of a most poisonous kind, which will not be charmed, rendered harmless by sooth...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Shall bite — There will be no appeasing their fury by any method.

¹⁷ For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 8:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 8:17