Jeremiah 13:5

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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as: Exodus 39:42, Exodus 39:43, Exodus 40:16, Matthew 22:2-6, John 2:5-8, Acts 26:19, Acts 26:20, 2 Timothy 2:3, Hebrews 11:8, Hebrews 11:17-19

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 37:7 - I prophesied as Micah 5:2 - that is

Cross-References

Genesis 4:20
And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and those who have livestock.

Genesis 25:27
And the boys grew up. And Esau was a skilled hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents.

Jeremiah 49:29
They will take their tents, and their flocks, their tent curtains, and all their equipment, and their camels they will carry away for themselves, and they will call to them, ‘Terror is from all around.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I went and hid it by Euphrates,.... Or, "in" o it; in a hole of the rock, upon the banks of it:

as the Lord commanded me: all this seems to be done not really, but visionally; it can hardly be thought that Jeremy should be sent on two such long journeys, on such an account, which would take up a considerable time to perform it in; but rather that he went and came in like manner as Ezekiel did, in the visions of God, from Chaldea to Jerusalem, and from thence to Chaldea again, Ezekiel 8:3, and so Maimonaides p was of opinion, as Kimchi on the place observes, that all this was done in a vision of prophecy.

o בפרת "in Euphrate", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin. p Moreh Nevochim, par. 2. c. 46. p. 323.