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Jeremiah 6

Jeremiah 6 — Overview

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Jeremiah 6 — OverviewJeremiah 6 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleIn this chapter, as before, we have, I. A prophecy of the invading of the land of Judah and the besieging of Jerusalem by the Chaldean army (ver. 1-6), with the spoils they should make of the country (ver. 9)…Jeremiah 6 — OverviewJeremiah 6 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter is of the same argument with the former; and contains two things in it, the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and the causes of it, which are intermixedly handled in it; a lively description is…Jeremiah 6:1-8Jeremiah 6:1-8 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is I. Judgment threatened against Judah and Jerusalem. The city and the country were at this time secure and under no apprehension of danger; they saw no cloud gathering, but every thing looked safe and…Jeremiah 6:1Jeremiah 6:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryO ye children of Benjamin. The political rank of Jerusalem, as the capital of the kingdom of Judah, makes it difficult to realize that Jerusalem was not locally a city of Judah at all. It belonged, strictly speaking, to…Jeremiah 6:1Jeremiah 6:1 · The Pulpit CommentarySignal-fires. "Set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem." Introduction. ― Illustrate from Homer's description of such signal-fires, or from Macaulay's poem, "Defeat of the Spanish Armada.' Take them as illustrative of…Jeremiah 6:1-8Jeremiah 6:1-8 · The Pulpit CommentaryArrival of a hostile army from the north, and summons to flee from the doomed city.