Jeremiah 13:2

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ Thus Yahweh said to me: "Go and buy for yourself a loincloth of linen and put it on your loins, but you must not place it in water." ² So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put it on my loins. ³ Now the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying, ⁴ "Take the loincloth that you bought, that is on your loins, and stand up, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock." ⁵ So I went and hid it by the Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me. ⁶ And then, after a long time, then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go to the Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there." ⁷ Then I went to the Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything. ⁸ And then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, ⁹ "Thus says Yahweh: ‘So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. ¹⁰ This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go in the stubbornness of their hearts, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything.

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according: Proverbs 3:5, Isaiah 20:2, Ezekiel 2:8, Hosea 1:2, Hosea 1:3, John 13:6, John 13:7, John 15:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 30:6 - Dan Jeremiah 13:6 - Arise

Cross-References

Genesis 13:1
Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that was with him. And Lot went with him to the Negev.

Genesis 13:3
And he went according to his journey from the Negev, then to Bethel, to the place where his tent was at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you want what is on the left, then I will go right; if you want what is on the right, I will go left."

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered land—this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar.

Genesis 13:12
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled in the cities of the plain. And he pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were extremely wicked sinners against Yahweh.

Genesis 24:35
Now Yahweh has blessed my master exceedingly, and he has become great. He has given to him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

Deuteronomy 8:18
But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he is the one giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors as it is today.

1 Samuel 2:7
Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts.

Job 1:3
Then his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I got a girdle,.... Or, bought n a linen one, as directed:

according to the word of the Lord; his express order and command; the prophet was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:

and I put it on my loins; without washing it before or after, and wore it publicly for some time.

n ואקנה Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.