Jeremiah 8:22

Genesis 37:25; Genesis 43:11; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 1:6; Jeremiah 30:12-17; Jeremiah 46:11; Jeremiah 51:8; Luke 5:31; Luke 5:32; Luke 8:43; Matthew 9:11; Matthew 9:12

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 8:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No physician there - i. e., in Gilead. Balm used to grow in Israel for the healing of the nations. Her priests and prophets were the physicians....
Arno Geneva Study Bible

[Is there] no balm (r) in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? (r) Meaning,that...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 8:18 to Jeremiah 9:1 . Jeremiah's Sorrow over Judah's Suffering. The prophet, in sorrowful sympathy with his people, hears in anticipat...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

balm... physician. The words of the prophet, showing that healing remedies were employed; thus accounting for the silence respecting them. Compare...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet intimates in these words that the slaughter of the people would be so fatal that they would in vain seek remedies; as though he had...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1043 THE REMEDY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR SEASONS OF GRACE Jeremiah 8:20-22 . The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we ar...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1044 CHRIST OUR PHYSICIAN Jeremiah 8:22 . In there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Is there no balm in G...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Is there no balm in Gilead?— "Whence then comes it that the wound of my people hath not been closed? Is it my fault? Have I not sent you prophets?...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Is there no balm...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

'Is there no way of saving this people?' Gilead was a mountainous part of Palestine E, of the Jordan. Balm (balsam) was found there, and naturall...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Is there no balm in Gilead...? — The resinous gums of Gilead, identified by some naturalists with those of the terebinth, by others with mastich, t...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS BEHOLD my soul, from the perusal of this Chapter, what a poor, ignorant, unthinking, and improvident creature is man! The birds of the a...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘THE BALM OF GILEAD’ ‘Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of My people recovered?’...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Is there no balm in Gilead ?.... Which was famous for it; see Genesis 37:25 , or rather turpentine or rosin, a gum which drops from pine trees and...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 8:22 [Is there] no balm in Gilead; [is there] no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Ver...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt , &c. These are the words of the prophet, lamenting the miserable condition of his country....
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

OLBGrk; Gilead was eminent for balm, Genesis 43:11 , taken for rosin or turpentine , which is a kind of more liquid rosin, and either flows or d...
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...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 8:22 I. Sin is the consumption not of the body, but of the soul, and without seeking to establish any curious analogies, but supposing th...
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

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of My people recovered? Physic from heaven...
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

Is there no balm in Gilead? the reference being to a balsam which was in wide use in the Orient for the cooling and healing of wounds. Is there no p...

²² Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 8:22

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

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit 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

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

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

Jeremiah 8:22