Verse-by-Verse Bible CommentaryJeremiah 9:16
"I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them." Jump to: Gill's Exposition • Commentary Critical and Explanatory • Wesley's Notes • Calvin's Commentary • Trapp's Commentary • Poole's Annotations • Whedon's Commentary • Constable's Expository Notes • Haydock's Catholic Commentary • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes • Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged • Treasury of Knowledge Other Authors
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole BibleI will scatter them also among the Heathen,.... Besides the bitter judgments of famine and pestilence during the siege, what remained of them should be carried captive out of their own land into foreign countries, than which nothing could be more distressing: whom neither they or their fathers have known; a circumstance greatly aggravating their captivity: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them; or men that kill with the sword, as the Targum: it chiefly regards such of them as were scattered among the Moabites and Ammonites, and especially that went into Egypt; see Jeremiah 44:27. Copyright Statement Bibliography Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Biblenor their fathers have known — alluding to Jeremiah 9:14, “Their fathers taught them” idolatry; therefore the children shall be scattered to a land which neither their fathers nor they have known. send a sword after them — Not even in flight shall they be safe. Copyright Statement Bibliography Wesley's Explanatory NotesI will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. A sword — But I will follow them with the sword, 'till they be destroyed, such of them as were appointed for destruction; for otherwise, they were not all consumed, a full end was not to be made. Copyright Statement Bibliography Calvin's Commentary on the BibleAs he had said that the Jews were following what theyhad received from their fathers,so he says now that God would scatter them among nations, which had been unknown to them and to their fathers. He then alludes to their mischievous tradition; for the fathers had imbued their children with ungodly errors, and had withdrawn them from God, that their doctrine might become altogether familiar to them. There is then a contrast to be noticed between the knowledge with which the fathers had inebriated their children, and their ignorance of the language of the nations. And then as he had said, that they were walking after the hardness of their own heart and after Baalim, he says, I will send a sword after them We hence see that the Prophet in both clauses alludes to the defection of which he had spoken. And he adds, Until I shall have consumed them; and this is added, that they might not promise themselves a temporary or a moderate chastisement. Jeremiah then declares, that as they had abused God’s forbearance, destruction was nigh them, and that God would contimle to consume them, until he had wholly destroyed them. It follows — Copyright Statement Bibliography John Trapp Complete CommentaryJeremiah 9:16 I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. Ver. 16. And I will scatter them also among the heathen.] As had been forethreatened. [Deuteronomy 28:15-68 Leviticus 26:14-39] But men will not believe till they feel. They read the threats of God’s law, as they do the old stories of foreign wars, and as if they lived out of the reach of God’s rod. Copyright Statement Bibliography Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy BibleI will scatter them also among the heathen; either you shall wander up and down among strangers, like Cain’s curse; or rather, you shall have no friend abroad, but be sold as so many slaves from person to person. Whom neither they nor their fathers have known; part of the curse threatened Deuteronomy 28:64. And I will send a sword after them: neither shall this serve their turn, but I will follow them with the sword till they be destroyed; probably meant of those that might escape out of Jerusalem, and flee into Egypt, the Chaldeans should pursue them thither, and either take or slay them there, i.e. such of them as were appointed for destruction; for otherwise they were not all consumed, a full end was not to be made, as is promised, Jeremiah 5:10. Copyright Statement Bibliography Whedon's Commentary on the BibleTHE CARNIVAL OF DEATH, Jeremiah 9:16-21. 16. I will scatter them — God’s determination thus to do is rendered more appalling by the statement whom neither they nor their fathers have known. Till I have consumed them — Not utterly, as is repeatedly indicated in this book: God’s forbearance still continuing to the remnant who should be spared a feeble life in their own land. Copyright Statement Bibliography Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable
He would also scatter them among nations that would be unfamiliar to them and their forefathers. Violence would follow them until the Lord had annihilated them. This would be the fate of many ungodly Judahites, not the whole nation (cf. Jeremiah 4:27; Jeremiah 5:18; Jeremiah 30:11). Copyright Statement Bibliography George Haydock's Catholic Bible CommentaryConsumed. Chap. xliv. 27. No country shall afford them protection. (Calmet) --- The richer sort were made captives, and most of the people destroyed, but not all, chap. iv. 25. (Worthington) Copyright Statement Bibliography E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible NotesI will scatter. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:33. Deuteronomy 28:64). heathen = nations. Copyright Statement Bibliography Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - UnabridgedI will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them. Nor their fathers have known - alluding to Jeremiah 9:14, "Their fathers taught them" idolatry; therefore the children shall be scattered to a land which "neither their fathers nor they have known." Send a sword after them - not even in flight shall they be safe. Copyright Statement Bibliography Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeI will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
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