Jeremiah 12:14

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: "Look, I am about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them. ¹⁵ And then after my driving them out, I will once again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land. ¹⁶ And then, if they diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘as Yahweh lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will live in the midst of my people. ¹⁷ But if they do not listen, then I will completely uproot and destroy that nation." declares Yahweh.

Bible Verse Review
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against: Jeremiah 48:26, Jeremiah 48:27, Jeremiah 50:9-17, Jeremiah 51:33-35, Ezekiel 25:3-15, Amos 1:2-15, Zephaniah 2:8-10

that: Jeremiah 2:3, Jeremiah 49:1, Jeremiah 49:7, Psalms 105:15, Obadiah 1:10-16, Zechariah 1:15, Zechariah 2:8, Zechariah 12:2-4

I will: Jeremiah 48:1 - Jeremiah 51:64, Ezekiel 25:1 - Ezekiel 32:32, Ezekiel 35:1-15

and pluck: Jeremiah 3:18, Jeremiah 32:37, Deuteronomy 30:3, Psalms 106:47, Isaiah 11:11-16, Ezekiel 28:25, Ezekiel 34:12, Ezekiel 34:13, Ezekiel 36:24, Ezekiel 37:21, Ezekiel 39:27, Ezekiel 39:28, Hosea 1:11, Amos 9:14, Amos 9:15, Zephaniah 3:19, Zephaniah 3:20, Zechariah 10:6-12

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:63 - plucked from Jeremiah 12:17 - pluck Jeremiah 18:7 - to pluck Jeremiah 30:16 - General Ezekiel 28:24 - a pricking Joel 3:2 - and parted

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate.

Genesis 6:2
Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose.

Genesis 39:7
And it happened that after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."

Matthew 5:28
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord against all mine evil neighbours,.... Or, "concerning" h them; the Egyptians, Philistines, Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Tyre, and Sidon; whom the Lord calls his "neighbours", because they were near the land of Canaan, where his people dwelt, to whom he vouchsafed his presence, and where the temple was in which he took up his residence; and his "evil" neighbours, because they often distressed and afflicted his people.

That touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; meaning not only that they bordered on the land of Canaan, and so might be said to touch it, but that they did hurt unto it; in which sense the word touch is used, Psalms 105:15, the land of Canaan was an inheritance which was distributed by lot to the children of Israel, who were a people dear unto the Lord, as this shows; and therefore they that touched them, or their inheritance, as to do them any harm, touched the apple of his eye, and which he resented greatly, Zechariah 2:8.

Behold, I will pluck them out of their land; cause them to be carried captive into other lands, or be destroyed in their own; see Jeremiah chapters forty six through forty nine: and pluck out the house of Judah from among them; such of the Jews they had formerly carried captive, or who had fled to them upon the Chaldean invasion; these the Lord would cause to come forth from among them, and return them to their own land.

h על כל "de omnibus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet addresses the spoilers.

Evil neighbors - The Syrians, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, and Philistines, who at all times took advantage of Judah’s weakness. The special mercy to Judah was the prelude to mercy to the whole Gentile world.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 12:14. Against all mine evil neighbours — All the neighbouring nations who have united in desolating Judea shall be desolated in their turn: they also are wicked, and they shall be punished. If I make them executors of my justice, it is to them no proof of my approbation. God often uses one wicked nation to scourge another; and afterwards scourges the scourger by some other scourge. In some places a felon who was condemned to be hanged is made the common hangman for the county; he himself being still under the sentence of death, -

Till soon some trusty brother of the trade

Shall do for him what he has done for others.