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Jeremiah 46:1

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the [Gentile] nations.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;   Scofield Reference Index - Gentile;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jeremiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Carchemish;   Egypt;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Kings, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Jeremiah;   Rivers and Waterways in the Bible;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Obadiah, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Pha'raoh,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jeremiah (2);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Carmel, Mount;   Food;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah about the nations:
Hebrew Names Version
The word of the LORD which came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the nations.
King James Version
The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
English Standard Version
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
New American Standard Bible
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
New Century Version
The Lord spoke this word to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations:
World English Bible
The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The wordes of the Lord, which came to Ieremiah the Prophet against the Gentiles,
Legacy Standard Bible
That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Berean Standard Bible
This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Contemporary English Version
The Lord often told me what to say about the different nations of the world.
Complete Jewish Bible
This is the word of Adonai that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the nations.
Darby Translation
The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Easy-to-Read Version
These messages about different nations came to Jeremiah the prophet from the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
THE word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet to prophesy concerning the Gentiles:
Good News Translation
The Lord spoke to me about the nations,
Lexham English Bible
The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Literal Translation
The Word of Jehovah which was to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Here folowe the wordes off the LORDE to the prophet Ieremy, which he spake vnto the Gentiles.
American Standard Version
The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Bible in Basic English
The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
King James Version (1611)
The word of the Lord which came to Ieremiah the Prophet, against the Gentiles,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare folowe the wordes of the Lorde to the prophete Ieremie, which he spake against [all] the gentiles.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And it came to pass in the ninth month of Sedekias king of Juda, that Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
English Revised Version
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The word of the Lord, that was maad to Jeremye, the profete, ayens hethene men;
Update Bible Version
The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Webster's Bible Translation
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;
New English Translation
The Lord spoke to Jeremiah about the nations.
New King James Version
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the nations.
New Living Translation
The following messages were given to Jeremiah the prophet from the Lord concerning foreign nations.
New Life Bible
This is the Word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the man of God about the nations.
New Revised Standard
The word of the Lord that came to the prophet Jeremiah concerning the nations.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So much of the word of Yahweh as came unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the Gentiles,
Revised Standard Version
The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
Young's Literal Translation
That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations,
THE MESSAGE
God 's Messages through the prophet Jeremiah regarding the godless nations.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That which came as the word of the LORD to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Contextual Overview

1The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the [Gentile] nations.2Concerning Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated [decisively] in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah: 3"Line up the buckler (small shield) and [large] shield, And advance for battle! 4"Harness the horses, And mount, you riders! Take your stand with your helmets! Polish the spears, Put on the coats of mail! 5"Why have I seen it? They are terrified And have turned back, And their warriors are beaten down. They take flight in haste Without looking back; Terror is on every side!" Says the LORD. 6Do not let the swift man run, Nor the mighty man escape; In the north by the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen. 7Who is this that rises up like the Nile [River], Like the rivers [in the delta of Egypt] whose waters surge about? 8Egypt rises like the Nile, Even like the rivers whose waters surge about. And He has said, "I will rise, I will cover that land; I will certainly destroy the city and its inhabitants." 9Charge, you horses, And drive like madmen, you chariots! Let the warriors go forward: Ethiopia and Put (Libya) who handle the shield, And the Lydians who handle and bend the bow. 10For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of hosts, A day of vengeance, that He may avenge Himself on His adversaries. And the sword will devour and be satiated And drink its fill of their blood; For the Lord GOD of hosts has a sacrifice [like that of a great sin offering] In the north country by the river Euphrates.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The word: This is a general title to the prophecies contained in this and the following chapters, concerning different nations which had less or more connexion with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbours, or allies. They were not delivered at the same time: to some the date is annexed; in others it is left uncertain.

against: Jeremiah 1:10, Jeremiah 4:7, Jeremiah 25:15-29, Genesis 10:5, Numbers 23:9, Zechariah 2:8, Romans 3:29

Reciprocal: Psalms 79:6 - upon Isaiah 19:1 - Egypt Jeremiah 9:26 - Egypt Jeremiah 25:17 - and made Jeremiah 43:11 - he shall smite Lamentations 1:21 - thou wilt Ezekiel 28:26 - when I Ezekiel 30:7 - General Ezekiel 30:22 - and that Habakkuk 1:17 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
But Abel brought [an offering of] the [finest] firstborn of his flock and the fat portions. And the LORD had respect (regard) for Abel and for his offering;
Genesis 8:20
And Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every [ceremonially] clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 12:8
Then he moved on from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD [in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving].
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Beersheba (Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), because there the two of them swore an oath.
Genesis 21:33
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD [in prayer], the Eternal God.
Genesis 22:13
Then Abraham looked up and glanced around, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering (ascending sacrifice) instead of his son.
Genesis 28:10
Now Jacob left Beersheba [never to see his mother again] and traveled toward Haran.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above and around him and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your [father's] father and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land [of promise] on which you are lying.
Genesis 31:42
"If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and [the Feared One] of Isaac, had not been with me, most certainly you would have sent me away now empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and humiliation and the [exhausting] labor of my hands, so He rendered judgment and rebuked you last night."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles. Or "nations"; distinguished from the Jews; not all the nations of the world, but some hereafter mentioned, as the Egyptians, Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Syrians, Arabians, Persians, and Chaldeans: or "concerning the nations" p; the above mentioned; though the prophecies delivered out concerning them are all against them, and not in their favour. Mention is made of Jeremiah's prophesying against all the nations in Jeremiah 25:13; after which follow the several prophecies contained in the next chapters in the Septuagint and Arabic versions, as they stand in the Polyglot Bible.

p על גוים "super gentes", Montanus; "de gentibus", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Against the Gentiles - Or, concerning the nations Jer. 46–49:33.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XLVI

The difference between the preceding and the subsequent

prophecies in point of composition is very remarkable; the

last excelling much in majesty and elegance. This chapter (of

which the first verse forms a general title to this and the

five chapters following) contains two distinct prophecies

relating to Egypt. The first was delivered previous to an

engagement between Pharaoh-necho, king of Egypt, and

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; in which the Egyptians were

routed in Carchemish with great slaughter, as here predicted.

The prophet sees the mighty preparations; but they are all

declared to be of no avail, as God had decreed their fall, 1-6.

The King of Egypt, however, is represented as marching with all

the confidence of victory, like a river overflowing its banks,

and threatening all around with its inundation, 7, 8.

But this immense armament of Pharaoh-necho, consisting of

various nations, shall, by a righteous judgment of God, receive

such a signal overthrow near the river Euphrates, that the

political consequence of Egypt shall be thereby irretrievably

ruined, and its remaining power become contemptible in the

sight of the nations, 9-12.

The other prophecy, beginning at the thirteenth verse, relates

to the memorable overthrow of the Egyptians by Nebuchadnezzar,

subsequent to his siege of Tyre, in the sixteenth year after

the destruction of Jerusalem, 13-26.

The promise, in the conclusion of the chapter, of preservation

to the Jews, (who have for many ages continued a distinct

people, when the various nations of antiquity who oppressed

them, or with whom they had any intercourse, have long ago

ceased to have any separate and visible existence,) has been

most remarkably fulfilled; and is a very signal act of

providence, and a pledge of the restoration of Israel to the

Divine favour, when the time of the Gentiles shall be

fulfilled, 27, 28.

NOTES ON CHAP. XLVI

Verse Jeremiah 46:1. The word of the Lor d -against the Gentiles — This is a general title to the following collection of prophecies, written concerning different nations, which had less or more connexion with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbours, or allies.

They were not written at the same time; and though some of them bear dates, yet it would be difficult to give them any chronological arrangement. Dahler's mode of ascertaining the times of their delivery may be seen in the table in the introduction.


 
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