Jeremiah 14:1
spoke .... about <01697> [A.M. 3399. B.C. 605. The word.]
This discourse is supposed to have been delivered after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. The Hebrew {batzaroth,} rendered dearth, signifies restraint, that is, "when the heaven is shut up that there is no rain;" which Houbigant thinks happened early in the reign of Zedekiah.
drought <01226> [the dearth. Heb. the words of the dearths, or restraints.]
Jeremiah 25:1--26:24
fourth <07243> [A.M. 3398. B.C. 606. in the.]
first <07224> [the first.]
Nebuchadnezzar was associated with his father Nabopollasar two years before the death of the latter; and from this time the Jewish computation of Nebuchadnezzar's reign begins; that is, from the end of the third year of Jehoiakim; and therefore, according to them, the fourth year of Jehoiakim was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar. But the Babylonians date the commencement of his reign two years later, that is, on the death of his father; which computation is followed by Daniel, who wrote in Chaldee.
twenty-three ..... thirteenth <07969> [thirteenth.]
again <07925> [rising.]
servants <05650> [all.]
Urijah the son of Shemaiah, and Huldah the prophetess, lived about this time. Zephaniah also prophesied during part of the time; and it is probable that Habakkuk was contemporary with them.
again <07925> [rising.]
have ... listened ... paid attention <08085> [ye.]
turn <07725> [Turn.]
as <05704> [for.]
angry <03707> [that ye.]
send <07971> [I.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Nebuchadrezzar.]
land .... inhabitants ..... nations <0776 03427 01471> [against.]
horror <08047> [an astonishment. See on ch.]
put an end .... sounds ........ glad celebration ................ sound <06 06963> [take from. Heb. cause to perish from.]
sounds ... joy ...... glad celebration ................ sound <08342 06963> [voice of mirth.]
sounds ........ glad celebration ................ sound <06963> [the sound.]
Sir J. Chardin remarks, that in the East, every where in the morning may be heard the noise of the mills, which often awakens people; for they generally grind every day just as much as may be necessary for the day's consumption. Where, then, the noise of the mill is not heard in the morning, nor the light of the candle seen in the evening, there must be an utter desolation.
seventy <07657> [seventy.]
This prophecy was delivered in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, and began to be accomplished immediately; and it was exactly seventy years from this time to the proclamation of Cyrus for the return of the Jews.
seventy <07657> [when.]
punish <06485> [that I.]
punish <06485> [punish. Heb. visit upon. See on ch.]
everlasting <05769> [perpetual.]
prophesied <05012> [hath. See on ch.]
many <07227> [many.]
repay <07999> [I.]
Take <03947> [Take.]
nations <01471> [all.]
nations <01471> [and made.]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem.]
did <05414> [to make.]
already becoming <03117> [as it.]
Pharaoh <06547> [Pharaoh.]
<06153> [the mingled.]
Uz <05780> [Uz.]
Philistines <06430> [Philistines.]
Ashkelon <0831> [Ashkelon.]
[Askelon, Gaza. remnant.]
Edom <0123> [Edom.]
Moab <04124> [Moab.]
<01121> [the.]
Tyre <06865> [Tyrus.]
Sidon <06721> [Zidon.]
coastlands along ... sea <05676 03220 0339> [isles which are beyond the sea. or, region by the sea side.]
Dedan <01719> [Dedan.]
short .... temples <06285 07112> [in the utmost corners. Heb. cut off into corners, or having the corners of the hair polled.]
Arabia <06152> [Arabia.]
<06153> [the mingled. See on ver.]
Zimri <02174> [Zimri.]
[Zimran. Elam.]
Media <04074> [Medes.]
kings ...................................... king <04428> [all the kings.]
kings ...................................... king <04428> [and the.]
drink <08354> [drink.]
Drink <08354> [Drink.]
<06440> [because.]
refuse <03985> [if.]
drink ................ must drink <08354> [Ye.]
bring <02490> [I begin.]
call ... own .................. proclaiming <07121 08034> [which is called by my name. Heb. upon which my name is called.]
avoid ... punished ...... unpunished <05352> [Ye shall.]
call .................... proclaiming <07121> [I will.]
roar ................... roar mightily <07580> [roar.]
holy <06944> [his holy.]
<06030> [give.]
sounds of battle <07588> [A noise.]
The dreadful devastations made by the Chaldeans through all the nations of the East, and afterwards the destruction of Babylon by the Medes and Persians, are here primarily foretold in this awful language; but it also accords very much with the passages in which the ruin of all the anti- christian powers is evidently predicted.
judgment <08199> [plead.]
Disaster <07451> [evil.]
military <01419> [and a.]
killed <02491> [the slain.]
mourned <05594> [they shall not. See on ch.]
manure <01828> [they shall be.]
Wail <03213> [Howl.]
shepherd <07462> [ye shepherds. Ye kings and chiefs of the people. wallow.]
rulers <0117> [ye principal.]
time ...... slaughtered <03117 02873> [the days of your. Heb. your days for.]
fallen <05307> [ye shall.]
fine pottery <03627 02532> [pleasant vessel. Heb. vessel of desire.]
leaders <07462> [the shepherds, etc. Heb. flight shall perish from the shepherds, and escaping from, etc.]
shepherds <0117> [nor.]
[See on ver.]
left <05800> [hath.]
waste <08047> [desolate. Heb. a desolation.]
[A.M. 3394. B.C. 610.]
stand <05975> [Stand.]
courtyard <02691> [court.]
This was the great outer court, where the people assembled for the purpose of religious worship on ordinary occasions, when they brought no sacrifices; but when they offered a sacrifice, they were to bring it into the inner court, or that of the priests.
word <01697> [all the words.]
single <01639> [diminish.]
attention <08085> [so.]
forgo <05162> [that I.]
[See on ch.]
obey <08085> [If.]
<05414> [which.]
servants <05650> [my.]
must .............. sent <07971> [whom. See on ch.]
do ............. make <05414> [will I. See on ch.]
curses <07045> [a curse.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
prophesy <05012> [Why.]
people <05971> [And all.]
claim ................... temple <08034 01004> [in the.]
officials <08269> [the princes.]
entrance <06607> [in the entry. or, at the door. the new.]
said <0559> [saying.]
man ...... die <0376 04941 04194> [This man is worthy to die. Heb. The judgment of death is for this man. for he.]
Lord <03068> [The Lord.]
correct <03190> [amend. See on ch.]
forgo <05162> [repent.]
power <03027> [As for.]
deem fair ... proper <02896 03477 05869> [as seemeth good and meet unto you. Heb. as it is good and right in your eyes.]
<05414> [ye shall.]
truth <0571> [for of. See on ver.]
Then <06965> [Then rose.]
Micah <04320> [Micah.]
Zion <06726> [Zion.]
Josephus relates that Titus, after he had taken Jerusalem, ordered his soldiers to demolish it, except three of the largest and most beautiful towers, and the western wall of the city; all the rest was levelled, so that they who had never before seen it, could scarcely persuade themselves it had been inhabited. The Jewish writers also inform us, that Turnus Rufus, whom Titus had left in command, ploughed up the very foundations of the temple. When Dr. Richardson visited this sacred spot in 1818, he found one part of Mount Zion supporting a crop of barley, and another undergoing the labour of the plough: the soil turned up consisted of stone and lime mixed with earth, such as is usually met with in foundations of ruined cities. It is nearly a mile in circumference; is highest on the west side, and, towards the east, falls down in broad terraces on the upper part of the mountain as it slopes down toward the brook Kidron.
[See on]
Jerusalem <03389> [Jerusalem. See on ch.]
mount <02022> [the mountain.]
reverence <03373> [did he.]
Lord ... seek ... Lord's ...... Lord <03068 02470> [besought the Lord. Heb. besought the face of the Lord. and the Lord. See on ver.]
we <0587> [Thus.]
Kiriath Jearim <07157> [Kirjath-jearim.]
king .............. king sought <04428 01245> [the king sought.]
fear <03372> [he was.]
<0582> [men.]
Achbor <05907> [Achbor.]
executed <05221> [who.]
thrown <07993> [and cast.]
common people <05971 01121> [common people. Heb. sons of the people.]
Ahikam <0296> [Ahikam.]
<05414> [that.]
