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Yeremia 11:16

Pohon zaitun yang rimbun, elok dipandang mata, pernah TUHAN menamai engkau. Tetapi dengan bunyi keributan yang hebat Ia menyalakan api pada daun-daunnya, sehingga ranting-rantingnya terbakar.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fruits;   Olive-Tree, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Olive;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Olive-Tree;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Olive;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Branch;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Branch;   Olive;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Grafting;   Quotations;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gentiles, the Fulness of the;   Olive, Olive Tree;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Olive tree;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Olive olive-tree;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fire (kindle);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Branch and Bough;   Color;   Olive Tree;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Pohon zaitun yang rimbun, elok dipandang mata, pernah TUHAN menamai engkau. Tetapi dengan bunyi keributan yang hebat Ia menyalakan api pada daun-daunnya, sehingga ranting-rantingnya terbakar.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa Tuhan sudah menamai engkau pokok zait yang hijau dan permai oleh rupa buahnya, tetapi dengan bunyi guruh yang hebat apipun akan menyalakan daunnya dan segala cabangnyapun akan dipatahkan.

Contextual Overview

11 Therefore, thus saith the Lorde: beholde, I will send a plague vpon them, whiche they shall not be able to escape: and they shall crye vnto me, and I wyl not heare them. 12 Then shall the townes of Iuda, and the citizens of Hierusalem go and call vpon their gods vnto whom they made their oblations: but they shall not be able to helpe them in tyme of their trouble. 13 For as many cities as thou hast, O Iuda, so many gods hast thou had also: and loke howe many streetes there be in thee (O Hierusalem) so many shameful aulters haue ye set vp, aulters [I say] to offer vpon them vnto Baal. 14 Therfore pray not thou for this people, byd neither prayse nor prayer for them: for though they crye vnto me in their trouble, yet wil I not heare them. 15 What part hath my beloued in my house, seing he hath worked abhomination, seruing many gods? The holy fleshe offeringes in the temple are gone from thee [O Iuda] and thou when thou hast done euyll, makest thy boast of it. 16 The Lord called thee a greene oliue tree, a faire one, a fruitefull one, a goodlye one: but with great clamour hath the enemie set fire vpon it, & the braunches of it are destroyed. 17 For the Lorde of hoastes that planted thee, hath deuised a plague for thee (O thou house of Israel and Iuda) for the euyll that ye haue done to prouoke hym to wrath, in that ye dyd seruice to Baal.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A green: Psalms 52:8, Romans 11:17-24

with: Psalms 80:16, Isaiah 1:30, Isaiah 1:31, Isaiah 27:11, Ezekiel 15:4-7, Ezekiel 20:47, Ezekiel 20:48, Matthew 3:10, John 15:6

Reciprocal: Job 20:18 - and he shall Psalms 128:3 - olive plants Revelation 11:4 - two olive

Cross-References

Genesis 10:21
Unto Sem also the father of all the children of Heber, and elder brother of Iapheth, there were chyldren borne.
Genesis 10:25
Unto Heber also were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his dayes was the earth deuided, and his brothers name was Iactan.
Numbers 24:24
The shippes also shall come out of the coast of Chittim, and subdue Assur, and subdue Eber, and he hym selfe shall perishe at the last.
1 Chronicles 1:19
And vnto Eber were borne two sonnes: the name of the one was Peleg, because that in his dayes the land was deuided, and his brothers name was Ioktan.
Luke 3:35
Which was ye sonne of Saruch, which was the sonne of Ragau, whiche was the sonne of Phaleg, which was ye sonne of Heber, which was the sonne of Sala:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord called thy name a green olive tree,.... That is, compared the Jewish church and people to one, and made them as one, very prosperous and flourishing in the enjoyment of privileges, civil and religious, being highly favoured with the word and ordinances: fair, and of goodly fruit; which, for a while, brought forth the fruit of good works; and, while such, was amiable and goodly to look upon; was, as the Syriac version is, "fair with fruit, and beautiful in sight"; and whereas it might have been expected she would have so continued, and been still as a green olive tree in the house of God, as David says, Psalms 52:8, now it was otherwise, she was become barren, dry, and fruitless: and therefore it follows:

with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it: that is, by means of the Chaldean army, which came with a mighty rushing noise, as a numerous army does; the Lord hath destroyed it, and burnt it with fire; what the Chaldeans did is ascribed to God, because it was done according to his will, and by his direction and overruling providence:

and the branches of it are broken; the high and principal ones, the king, princes, and nobles, their palaces, and the house of God. The apostle seems to have respect to this passage in Romans 11:17. The Targum is,

"as an olive tree that is beautiful in form and comely of sight, whose branches overshadow the trees, so the Lord hath magnified thy name among the people; but now that thou hast transgressed the law, the armies of the people, who are strong as fire, shall come against thee, and helps shall be joined to them.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A parenthesis. As in Jeremiah 7:16, all intercession is forbidden, and for this reason. Prayer for others for the forgiveness of their sins avails only when they also pray. The cry of the people now was that of the guilty smarting under punishment, not of the penitent mourning over sin.

Jeremiah 11:15

This passage, like Isaiah 1:12, rebukes the inconsistency of Judah’s public worship of Yahweh with their private immorality and preference for idolatry. Translate it: “What hath My beloved in My house to practice guile there? The great men and the holy flesh (i. e., the sacrifices) shall pass away from thee.”

Jeremiah 11:16

The “goodly” or “shapely fruit,” signifies the righteousness and faith which ought to have been the result of Israel’s possession of extraordinary privileges. The tree did not bear this fruit, and God now destroys it by a thunderstorm.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 11:16. The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree — That is, he made thee like a green olive-fair, flourishing, and fruitful; but thou art degenerated, and God hath given the Chaldeans permission to burn thee up.


 
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