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Jeremiah 46:1

The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the 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:
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.
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;
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 word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. 2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah. 3 Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle. 4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail. 5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh. 6 Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen. 7 Who is this that rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? 8 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof. 9 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow. 10 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a sacrifice 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
And Abel, he also brought of the firstborns of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Yahweh had respect to Abel and to his offering:
Genesis 8:20
And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.
Genesis 12:8
And he removed from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.
Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and [gave her] the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because there they swore both of them.
Genesis 21:33
And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there called on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 22:13
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and noticed a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
Genesis 28:10
And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
Genesis 28:13
And, look, Yahweh stood above it, and said, I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you I will give it, and to your seed.
Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, 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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