- Bible
- Jeremiah
- Chapter 13
- Verse 3
My Notes
Commentary
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And the word of the Lord,.... The Targum is,
"the word of prophecy from before the Lord:''
came unto me the second time, saying; what distance of time there was between this order and the former…
Here is, I. A sign, the marring of a girdle, which the prophet had worn for some time, by hiding it in a hole of a rock near the river Euphrates. It was usual with the prophets to teach by signs, that…
Jer 13:1-11. The acted symbol of the linen girdle
This ch. consists of five sections, quite independent of one another. The first two are in poetic prose, and the remaining in Ḳinah metre. Three…