Jeremiah 14:1 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 14:1

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

BSB

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ASV

The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

KJV

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Chapter XIV—Verse 1) The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah concerning the words of drought. The anger of God is evident in everything. Therefore, the sun sets on sinners at noon, and the moon, stars, and other celestial bodies do not give their light (Amos VIII). It can be assumed that there was no rain during the time of the siege, so that the besieged would suffer from a lack of water. Truly, the city only has one source, the fountain of Siloam, and it does not have a continuous supply.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth. Or, "concerning the words of straints" (x); that is, concerning the businesses of a drought, as the Targum; concerning the Lord's restraining rain from the earth, and forbidding the heavens dropping it down; the consequence of which is a drought, or dryness of the earth; and the effect of that a famine; when this was it is not anywhere said; it could not be the famine at the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, because that only affected the city; this all Judea.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The word - that came - concerning the dearth - This discourse is supposed to have been delivered, after the fourth year of Jehoiakim. Concerning the dearth. We have no historic record of any dearth that may fall in with the time of this prophecy, and perhaps it does not refer to any particular dearth: but this was a calamity to which Judea was very liable. They had ordinarily very dry summers, for scarcely any rain fell from April to the middle of October; and during much of this time, the rivers were generally either very low or entirely dry.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
הָיָ֤ה	ha.Yah	it came	H1961 →
דְבַר־	de.var-	[the] word of	H1697 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶֽל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ	yir.me.Ya.hu	Jeremiah	H3414 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
דִּבְרֵ֖י	div.Rei	[the] matters of	H1697 →
הַבַּצָּרֽוֹת׃	ha.ba.tza.Rot	the droughts	H1226 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

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Jeremiah 17:8
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not…
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- Psalms 1:3
  He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- Isaiah 58:11
  The LORD will always guide you; He will satisfy you in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
- Ezekiel 47:12
  Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from…
- Ezekiel 31:4–10
  The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.
- Psalms 92:10–15
  But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah