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Jeremiah 46:1

The wordes of the Lord, which came to Ieremiah the Prophet against the Gentiles,

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:
Amplified Bible
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the [Gentile] nations.
World English Bible
The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
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

1 The wordes of the Lord, which came to Ieremiah the Prophet against the Gentiles, 2 As against Egypt, against ye armie of Pharaoh Necho King of Egypt, which was by the riuer Perath in Carchemish, which Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel smote in the fourth yere of Iehoiakim the sonne of Iosiah King of Iudah. 3 Make readie buckler and shielde, and goe forth to battell. 4 Make readie the horses, and let the horsemen get vp, and stande vp with your sallets, fourbish the speares, and put on the brigandines. 5 Wherefore haue I seene them afraid, and driuen backe? for their mighty men are smitten, and are fled away, and looke not backe: for feare was rounde about, sayeth the Lord. 6 The swift shal not flee away, nor the strong man escape: they shall stumble, and fall towarde the North by the riuer Perath. 7 Who is this, that commeth vp, as a flood, whose waters are mooued like the riuers? 8 Egypt riseth vp like the flood, & his waters are mooued like the riuers, and he sayth, I wil goe vp, and will couer the earth: I wil destroy the citie with them that dwell therein. 9 Come vp, ye horses, and rage ye charets, and let the valiant men come foorth, the blacke Mores, and the Lybians that beare the shield, and the Lydians that handle and bend the bowe. 10 For this is the day of ye Lord God of hostes, and a day of vengeance, that he may auenge him of his enemies: for the sworde shall deuoure, and it shall be saciate, & made drunke with their blood: for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the North countrey by the Riuer Perath.

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
And Habel also him selfe brought of the first fruites of his sheepe, and of the fat of them, and the Lorde had respect vnto Habel, and to his offering,
Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord & tooke of euery cleane beast, & of euery cleane foule, and offered burnt offerings vpon the altar.
Genesis 12:8
Afterward remouing thence vnto a moutaine Eastward from Beth-el, he pitched his tent hauing Beth-el on the Westside, & Haai on the East: and there he built an altar vnto the Lord, and called on the Name of the Lord.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham arose vp early in ye morning, and tooke bread, and a bottell of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the childe also, and sent her away: who departing wandred in the wildernesse of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:31
Wherefore the place is called Beer-sheba, because there they both sware.
Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a groue in Beer-sheba, and called there on the Name of ye Lord, the euerlasting God.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and behold, there was a ramme behind him caught by the hornes in a bush. then Abraham went and tooke the ramme, and offered him vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne.
Genesis 28:10
Now Iaakob departed from Beer-sheba, and went to Haran,
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the Lord stoode aboue it, & sayd, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Izhak: the land, vpon the which thou sleepest, wil I giue thee and thy seede.
Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, & the labour of mine hads, & rebuked thee yester 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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