Jeremiah 13:7
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
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Gill's Exposition
Then I went to Euphrates,.... In a vision; this is the second journey, of which See Gill on Jer 13:5,
and digged; the hole, in process of time, being stopped up with soil or sand, that were thrown…
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…
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