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<p id="Chapter16" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 16
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<p id="Jer16_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,'1-21');">Jer 16:1-21</a>. CONTINUATION OF THE PREVIOUS PROPHECY.
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<p id="Jer16_2"><b>2. in this place</b>—in Judea. The direction to remain single was (whether literally obeyed, or only in prophetic vision) to symbolize the coming calamities of the Jews (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',24,'15-27');">Eze 24:15-27</a>) as so severe that the single state would be then (contrary to the ordinary course of things) preferable to the married (compare <a onclick="return mV('1Cr',7,8,26,29);">1Cr 7:8, 26, 29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',24,19);">Mat 24:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',23,29);">Luk 23:29</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_4"><b>4. grievous deaths</b>—rather, "deadly diseases" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',15,2);">Jer 15:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>not...lamented</b>—so many shall be the slain (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,18);">Jer 22:18</a>).
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<br><br><b>dung</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',83,10);">Psa 83:10</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_5"><b>5.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',24,17,22,23);">Eze 24:17, 22-23</a>).
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<br><br><b>house of mourning</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Mar',5,38);">Mar 5:38</a>). <i>Margin,</i> "mourning-feast"; such feasts were usual at funerals. The <i>Hebrew</i> means, in <a onclick="return mV('Amo',6,7);">Amo 6:7</a>, the <i>cry of joy</i> at a banquet; here, and <a onclick="return mV('Lam',2,19);">Lam 2:19</a>, the <i>cry of sorrow.</i>
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<p id="Jer16_6"><b>6. cut themselves</b>—indicating extravagant grief (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',41,5);">Jer 41:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',47,5);">47:5</a>;), prohibited by the law (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',19,28);">Lev 19:28</a>).
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<br><br><b>bald</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,29);">Jer 7:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',22,12);">Isa 22:12</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_7"><b>7. tear themselves</b>—rather, "break bread," namely, that eaten at the funeral-feast (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',26,14);">Deu 26:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',42,11);">Job 42:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',24,17);">Eze 24:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',9,4);">Hsa 9:4</a>). "Bread" is to be supplied, as in <a onclick="return mV('Lam',4,4);">Lam 4:4</a>; compare "take" (food) (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',42,33);">Gen 42:33</a>).
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<br><br><b>give...cup of consolation...for ...father</b>—It was the Oriental custom for friends to send viands and wine (the "cup of consolation") to console relatives in mourning-feasts, for example, to children upon the death of a "father" or "mother."
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<p id="Jer16_8"><b>8. house of feasting</b>—joyous: as distinguished from mourning-feasts. Have no more to do with this people whether in mourning or joyous feasts.
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<p id="Jer16_9"><b>9.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,34);">Jer 7:34</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',25,10);">25:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',26,13);">Eze 26:13</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_10"><b>10.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',29,24);">Deu 29:24</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Ki',9,8,9);">1Ki 9:8-9</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_11"><b>11.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,19);">Jer 5:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',13,22);">13:22</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,8,9);">22:8-9</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_12"><b>12. ye</b>—emphatic: so far from avoiding your fathers' bad example, ye have done worse (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,26);">Jer 7:26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Ki',14,9);">1Ki 14:9</a>).
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<br><br><b>imagination</b>—rather, "stubborn perversity."
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<br><br><b>that they may not hearken</b>—rather, connected with "ye"; "ye have walked...so as not to hearken to Me."
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<p id="Jer16_13"><b>13. serve other gods</b>—That which was their sin in their own land was their punishment in exile. Retribution in kind. They <i>voluntarily</i> forsook God for idols at home; they were <i>not allowed</i> to serve God, if they wished it, in captivity (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',3,12);">Dan 3:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Dan',6,7);">6:7</a>).
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<br><br><b>day and night</b>—irony. You may there serve idols, which ye are so mad after, even to satiety, and without intermission.
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<p id="Jer16_14"><b>14. Therefore</b>—So severe shall be the Jews' bondage that their deliverance from it shall be a greater benefit than that out of Egypt. The consolation is incidental here; the prominent thought is the <i>severity</i> of their punishment, so great that their rescue from it will be greater than that from Egypt [CALVIN]; so the context, <a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,13,17,18);">Jer 16:13, 17-18</a>, proves (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',23,7,8);">Jer 23:7-8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',43,18);">Isa 43:18</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_15"><b>15. the north</b>—Chaldea. But while the return from Babylon is primarily meant, the return hereafter is the full and final accomplishment contemplated, as "from <i>all</i> the lands" proves. "<i>Israel</i>" was not, save in a very limited sense, "gathered from all the lands" at the return from Babylon (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer024.html#Jer24_6">Jer 24:6</a>; JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer030.html#Jer30_3">Jer 30:3</a>; JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer032.html#Jer32_15">Jer 32:15</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_16"><b>16. send for</b>—translate, "I will send many"; "I will give the commission to many" (<a onclick="return mV('2Ch',17,7);">2Ch 17:7</a>).
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<br><br><b>fishers...hunters</b>—successive invaders of Judea (<a onclick="return mV('Amo',4,2);">Amo 4:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hab',1,14,15);">Hab 1:14-15</a>). So "net" (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',12,13);">Eze 12:13</a>). As to "hunters," see <a onclick="return mV('Gen',10,9);">Gen 10:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mic',7,2);">Mic 7:2</a>. The Chaldees were famous in hunting, as the Egyptians, the other enemy of Judea, were in fishing. "Fishers" expresses the <i>ease</i> of their victory over the Jews as that of the angler over fishes; "hunters," the keenness of their pursuit of them into every cave and nook. It is remarkable, the same image is used in a good sense of the Jews' restoration, implying that just as their enemies were employed by God to take them in hand for destruction, so the same shall be employed for their restoration (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',47,9,10);">Eze 47:9-10</a>). So spiritually, those once enemies by nature (<i>fishermen</i> many of them literally) were employed by God to be heralds of salvation, "catching men" for life (<a onclick="return mV('Mat',4,19);">Mat 4:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Luk',5,10);">Luk 5:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',2,41);">Act 2:41</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',4,4);">4:4</a>); compare here <a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,19);">Jer 16:19</a>, "the Gentiles shall come unto thee" (<a onclick="return mV('2Cr',12,16);">2Cr 12:16</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_17"><b>17.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',32,19);">Jer 32:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,21);">Pro 5:21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',5,21);">15:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>their iniquity</b>—the cause of God's judgments on them.
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<p id="Jer16_18"><b>18. first...double</b>—HORSLEY translates, "I will recompense...<i>once and again</i>"; literally, "the first time repeated": alluding to the two captivities—the Babylonian and the Roman. MAURER, "I will recompense their <i>former</i> iniquities (those <i>long ago</i> committed by their fathers) and their (own) <i>repeated</i> sins" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,11,12);">Jer 16:11-12</a>). <i>English Version</i> gives a good sense, "<i>First</i> (before 'I bring them again into their land'), I will doubly (that is, <i>fully and amply,</i> <a onclick="return mV('Jer',17,18);">Jer 17:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',40,2);">Isa 40:2</a>) recompense."
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<br><br><b>carcasses</b>—not sweet-smelling <i>sacrifices</i> acceptable to God, but "carcasses" offered to idols, an offensive odor to God: human victims (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,5);">Jer 19:5</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',16,20);">Eze 16:20</a>), and unclean animals (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',65,4);">Isa 65:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',65,4);">66:17</a>). MAURER explains it, "the carcasses" <i>of the idols:</i> their images void of sense and life, Compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,19,20);">Jer 16:19-20</a>. <a onclick="return mV('Lev',26,30);">Lev 26:30</a> favors this.
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<p id="Jer16_19"><b>19, 20.</b> The result of God's judgments on the Jews will be that both the Jews when restored, and the Gentiles who have witnessed those judgments, shall renounce idolatry for the worship of Jehovah. Fulfilled partly at the return from Babylon, after which the Jews entirely renounced idols, and many proselytes were gathered in from the Gentiles, but not to be realized in its fulness till the final restoration of Israel (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',2,'1-17');">Isa 2:1-17</a>).
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<p id="Jer16_20"><b>20.</b> indignant protest of Jeremiah against idols.
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<br><br><b>and they (are) no gods</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',2,11);">Jer 2:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',37,19);">Isa 37:19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Gal',4,8);">Gal 4:8</a>). "They" refers to the idols. A <i>man</i> (a creature himself) making <i>God</i> is a contradiction in terms. <i>Vulgate</i> takes "they" thus: "Shall man make gods, though <i>men</i> themselves are not gods?"
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<p id="Jer16_21"><b>21. Therefore</b>—In order that all may be turned from idols to Jehovah, He will now give awful proof of His divine power in the judgments He will inflict.
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<br><br><b>this once</b>—If the punishments I have heretofore inflicted <i>have</i> not been severe enough to teach them.
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<br><br><b>my name...Lord</b>—<i>Jehovah</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',83,18);">Psa 83:18</a>): God's incommunicable name, to apply which to idols would be blasphemy. Keeping His threats and promises (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',6,3);">Exd 6:3</a>).
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