Jeremiah 11:23

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Moreover, Yahweh let it be made known to me, and I knew. Then you showed me their deeds. ¹⁹ And I was like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered." ²⁰ But O Yahweh of hosts, who judges in righteousness, who tests the inmost being, and the mind, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case. ²¹ Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the people of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, "You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh or you will die by our hand." ²² Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by the famine. ²³ And a remnant will not be left for them, for I will bring disaster to the people of Anathoth, the year of their punishment."

Bible Verse Review
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no: Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 44:27, Isaiah 14:20-22

the year: Jeremiah 5:9, Jeremiah 5:29, Jeremiah 8:12, Jeremiah 23:12, Jeremiah 46:21, Jeremiah 48:44, Jeremiah 50:27, Hosea 9:7, Micah 7:4, Luke 19:44

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 6:60 - Anathoth Jeremiah 18:23 - in the

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there shall be no remnant of them,.... And thus the measure they meted out to the prophet was measured to them; they devised to destroy him root and branch, the tree with its fruit; and now none shall be left of them; such who escaped the sword and the famine should be carried captive, as they were; for though there were none left in Anathoth, there were some preserved alive, and were removed into Babylon; since, at the return from thence, the men of Anathoth were a hundred twenty and eight, Nehemiah 7:27:

for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation; or, "in the year of their visitation" s; that is, of the visitation of their sins, as the Targum; which was the year of the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem, and was in the nineteenth of Nebuchadnezzar, Jeremiah 52:12 and this was not a chance matter, but what was fixed and determined by the Lord.

s שנת פקדתם εν ενιαυτω επισκεψεως αυτων, Sept. "anno visitationis eorum", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No remnant - 128 men of Anathoth returned from exile Ezra 2:23; Nehemiah 7:27. Jeremiah’s denunciation was limited to those who had sought his life. The year of their visitation would be the year of the siege of Jerusalem, when Anathoth being in its immediate vicinity would have its share of the horrors of war.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 11:23. The year of their visitation. — This punishment shall come in that year in which I shall visit their iniquities upon them.