Jeremiah 46:27

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹²The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together." ¹³This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt: ¹⁴"Announce it in Egypt, and proclaim it in Migdol; proclaim it in Memphis and Tahpanhes: 'Take your positions and prepare yourself, for the sword devours those around you.' ¹⁵Why have your warriors been laid low? They cannot stand, for the LORD has thrust them down. ¹⁶They continue to stumble. Indeed, they have fallen over one another. They say, 'Get up! Let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the sword of the oppressor.' ¹⁷There they will proclaim, 'Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.' ¹⁸As surely as I live, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts, will come one like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea. ¹⁹Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited. ²⁰Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north is coming against her. ²¹Even the mercenaries among her are like fattened calves. They too will turn back; together they will flee; they will not stand their ground, for the day of their calamity is coming upon them-the time of their punishment.

Bible Verse Review
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fear: Jeremiah 30:10, Jeremiah 30:11, Isaiah 41:13, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 43:1, Isaiah 43:5, Isaiah 44:2

I will save: Jeremiah 23:3, Jeremiah 23:4, Jeremiah 29:14, Jeremiah 31:8-11, Jeremiah 32:37, Isaiah 11:11-16, Ezekiel 34:10-14, Ezekiel 36:24, Ezekiel 37:21, Ezekiel 37:22, Ezekiel 39:25, Amos 9:14, Micah 7:11-16

and be: Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 33:16, Jeremiah 50:19, Ezekiel 34:25, Ezekiel 34:26

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:1 - Fear not Isaiah 14:3 - General Isaiah 44:1 - O Jacob Jeremiah 30:18 - Behold Jeremiah 31:17 - General Jeremiah 43:10 - my servant Jeremiah 49:12 - they whose Lamentations 4:22 - The punishment of thine iniquity Ezekiel 34:28 - neither Zephaniah 3:16 - be said

Cross-References

Exodus 1:5
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

Exodus 24:1
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD-you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders-and you are to worship at a distance.

Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Acts 7:14
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But fear thou not, O my servant Jacob; and be not dismayed, O Israel,.... The same things are said in Jeremiah 30:10;

Jeremiah 30:10- :;

for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land their captivity; Grotius thinks the Jews carried into Egypt by Pharaohnecho, along with Jehoahaz, are meant; but it does not appear that any were carried captive along with him, 2 Kings 23:33. Jarchi supposes these to be the righteous in Egypt, who were carried thither by Johanan against their will; but though they may be included, even that small remnant that should escape, Jeremiah 44:28; yet the Jews in Babylon, and other provinces, are chiefly designed; and the words are intended to comfort them in their captivity, with a promise of their return, lest they should be discouraged, in hearing that the Egyptians should inhabit their own land again, and they not theirs:

and Jacob shall return, and be in rest, and at ease, and none shall make [him] afraid: this will have its full accomplishment hereafter in the latter day; when the Jews will be converted, and return to their own land, and never be disturbed more, as they have been, ever since their return from the Babylonish captivity. So Kimchi says this passage respects time to come.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

These two verses are a repetition of Jeremiah 30:10-11, with those slight variations which Jeremiah always makes when quoting himself. Egypt’s fall and restoration have been foretold; but the prophet closes with a word of exhortation to the many erring Jews who dwelt there. Why should they flee from their country, and trust in a pagan power, instead of endeavoring to live in a manner worthy of the noble destiny which was their true glory and ground of confidence?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 46:27. Fear not - my servant Jacob — In the midst of wrath God remembers mercy. Though Judah shall be destroyed, Jerusalem taken, the temple burnt to the ground, and the people carried into captivity, yet the nation shall not be destroyed. A seed shall be preserved, out of which the nation shall revive.