Jeremiah 22:6 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 22:6

For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.

BSB

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ASV

For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

KJV

For thus saith the Lord unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon - Perhaps in allusion, says Dahler, to the oaks of Gilead, and the cedars of Mount Lebanon, of which the palace was constructed. Lebanon was the highest mountain in Israel, and Gilead the richest and most fertile part of the country; and were, therefore, proper emblems of the reigning family. Though thou art the richest and most powerful, I, who raised thee up, can bring thee down and make thee a wilderness.

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John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Gilead - Gilead was a country fertile for pastures; upon which account the Reubenites and Gadites, being men whose estate lay in cattle, begged it of Moses for their portion. Lebanon also was a very pleasant place: they were both in the lot of Gad and Manasseh.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But, (2.) This shall not protect them; the country that is now fruitful as Gilead shall be made a wilderness. The cities that are now strong as Lebanon shall be cities not inhabited; and, when the country is laid waste, the cities must be dispeopled. See how easily God's judgments can ruin a nation, and how certainly sin will do it.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
כֹ֣ה׀	khoh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֣ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֗ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
בֵּית֙	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
מֶ֣לֶךְ	Me.lekh	[the] king of	H4428 →
יְהוּדָ֔ה	ye.hu.Dah	Judah	H3063 →
גִּלְעָ֥ד	gil.'Ad	[are] Gilead	H1568 →
אַתָּ֛ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
לִ֖י	li	to <the> me
רֹ֣אשׁ	rosh	[the] top of	H7218 →
הַלְּבָנ֑וֹן	ha.le.va.Non	<the> Lebanon	H3844 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
לֹ֤א	lo'	not	H3808 →
אֲשִֽׁיתְךָ֙	'a.shi.te.Kha	I will make you	H7896 →
מִדְבָּ֔ר	mid.Bar	a wilderness	H4057 →
עָרִ֖ים	'a.Rim	cities	H5892 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	[which] not	H3808 →
נוֹשָֽׁבוּ׃	no.sha.vah	they are inhabited	H3427 →

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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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
leads to
- 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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 79:1
  The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
- Micah 4:1–2
  In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to…
Through
Psalms 107:34
and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
leads to
- Genesis 13:10
  And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…
- Genesis 14:3
  The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
Through
Jeremiah 9:11
“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
leads to
- Isaiah 25:2
  Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
- Isaiah 34:13
  Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
- Isaiah 13:22
  Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

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