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Jeremiah 16:1

in Jeremiah 16

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

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The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying,

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The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,

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This verse in Jeremiah 16

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
The word of the Lord came unto me, saying. The Targum is, the word of prophecy from the Lord: whether this is a new prophecy, or the former continued, is not certain; the latter seems probable. This introduction is omitted in the Septuagint and Arabic versions.

This site's exposition

Then the word of the LORD came to me

on Jeremiah 16:1-4

The command “You must not marry or have sons or daughters in this place” makes Jeremiah’s own life a sign of a ruin. The children born here will die of diseases, unmourned and unburied, their corpses “food for the birds of the air and beasts of the earth”.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The word of the Lord came also unto me - This discourse Dahler supposes to have been delivered some time in the reign of Jehoiakim.
In this prophecy Jer. 16:1-18, the punishment of the people is set forth in even sterner terms than in the last. The whole land is likened to a desert covered with the bodies of the dead, who lie unbemoaned and uncared for; and the prophet himself is commanded to abstain from the common usages of mankind that his motto of life, as well as his words, may warn the people of the greatness of the approaching calamity. There is, however, to be finally a return from exile, but only after the idolatry of the nation has been severely punished.

The words behind it

5 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֥יand it came

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • דְבַר־[the] word of

    devar-H1697 →1440 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֵלַ֥יto me

    ʾelaiH413 →5510 times

  • לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 2:1

    Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 1:11

      And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 23:28

      Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.

    • Jeremiah 7:1

      This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

  • Through

    Jeremiah 1:4

    The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 3:16

      At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    • Ezekiel 1:3

      the word of the LORD came directly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the River Kebar. And there the LORD’s hand was upon him.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 1:2

    The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah,

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 13:20

      While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

    • Hosea 1:1

      This is the word of the LORD that came to Hosea son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and of Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of…

    • Jeremiah 1:4

      The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 16 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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