Jeremiah 17:3
in Jeremiah 17O My mountain in the countryside, I will give over your wealth and all your treasures as plunder, because of the sin of your high places, within all your borders.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
KJV
O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
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This verse in Jeremiah 17
Commentary
9 notes on this verseO my mountain in the midst of the field,.... Meaning either the temple, called the mountain of the house, and of the Lord's house, Mic 3:12, or else Jerusalem, which stood on a hill in the midst of a plain, surrounded with fruitful fields and gardens; or in the midst of a land like a field.
This site's exposition
The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus
on Jeremiah 17:1-4
The sin is “written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point”, on their hearts and on the horns of their altars. The two places show idolatry fixed in the very heart that was meant to love the LORD. Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles.
This site's exposition
O My mountain in the countryside
Albert Barnes takes the phrase O My mountain as Jerusalem on Zion, set against the open country around it. John Gill reads it as the temple hill or the city raised above the fields. The city the LORD calls His own is now handed over as plunder.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 2, 3.) When their sons remember their altars, and the groves of trees and leafy branches on the high mountains, sacrificing in the field, I will give your strength and all your treasures to plunder. Your lofty places will be destroyed because of your sins in all your borders.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Justly are men stripped of that which they have served their idols with and have made the food and the fuel of their lusts. My mountain (so the whole land was, Ps. lxxviii. 11 ) you have turned into your high places for sin, have worshipped your idols upon the high hills (
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He shows them the folly of all their carnal confidences, which should stand them in no stead when God's time came to contend with them, and that this was one of the sins upon which his controversy with them was grounded,
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
O my mountain in the field - i. e., Jerusalem or Zion, called the Rock of the Plain in Jer 21:13. “The field” is the open unenclosed country, here contrasted with the privileged height of Zion. Or sin - i. e., because of thy sin.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
"Field" may, however, mean all Judea; it and "My mountain" will thus express the country and its capital. (GESENIUS translates, "together with," instead of "in"; as the Hebrew is translated in Jer 11:19;
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
O my mountain in the field - The prophet here addresses the land of Judea, which was a mountainous country, Deu 3:25; but Jerusalem itself may be meant, which is partly built upon hills which, like itself, are elevated above the rest of the country.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֲרָרִי֙ | harari | mountain my | H2042 → | |
| בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה | basadeh | in the field | H7704 → | 334 times |
| חֵילְךָ֥ | cheilekha | wealth your | H2428 → | 246 times |
| כָל־ | khol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אוֹצְרוֹתֶ֖יךָ | ʾotzroteikha | treasures your | H214 → | 79 times |
| לָבַ֣ז | lavaz | to plunder | H957 → | 25 times |
| אֶתֵּ֑ן | ʾeten | I will give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָ | bamoteikha | high places your | H1116 → | 102 times |
| בְּחַטָּ֖את | bechatat | for sin | H2403 → | 295 times |
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| גְּבוּלֶֽיךָ׃ | gevuleikha | territories your | H1366 → | 240 times |
הֲרָרִי֙mountain my
harariH2042 →
בַּשָּׂדֶ֔הin the field
basadehH7704 →334 times
חֵילְךָ֥wealth your
cheilekhaH2428 →246 times
כָל־all
khol-H3605 →5413 times
אוֹצְרוֹתֶ֖יךָtreasures your
ʾotzroteikhaH214 →79 times
לָבַ֣זto plunder
lavazH957 →25 times
אֶתֵּ֑ןI will give
ʾetenH5414 →2011 times
בָּמֹתֶ֕יךָhigh places your
bamoteikhaH1116 →102 times
בְּחַטָּ֖אתfor sin
bechatatH2403 →295 times
בְּכָל־in all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
גְּבוּלֶֽיךָ׃territories your
gevuleikhaH1366 →240 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
2 Kings 24:13As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar also carried off all the treasures from the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 20:5
I will give away all the wealth of this city—all its products and valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah—to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 39:6
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- 2 Kings 20:17
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 20:5
Through
Jeremiah 15:13Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.
it leads to
- Psalms 44:12
You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
- Isaiah 52:3
For this is what the LORD says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”
- Psalms 44:12
Through
Jeremiah 26:18“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a…
it leads to
- Nehemiah 4:2
before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can…
- Zechariah 8:3
This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be…
- Micah 1:1
This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:
- Nehemiah 4:2
Where this verse is studied
About Jeremiah
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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.