jeremiah-13:10-11,-james-1:26-27-niv

Explanation of the symbol. Could there be a greater humiliation for Judah and Jerusalem than to be compared to a rotting linen apron? The hard things said of this evil people in Jeremiah 13:10 must of course be understood with the limitations indicated in the note on Jeremiah 9:15 , Jeremiah 9:16 . Imagination should (as usual) be stubbornness . The explanation in Jeremiah 9:11 is a strong argument for the rendering "apron" (see above, on Jeremiah 9:1 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 13:10

This verse limits the application of the symbol. Only the ungodly and the idolatrous part of the people decayed at Babylon. The religious portion was strengthened and invigorated by the exile Jeremiah 24:5-7. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 13:11

The reason why the girdle was chosen as the symbol. Similarly, Israel was the people chosen and set apart that in and by them the Holy Spirit might work for the salvation of mankind. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 13:11

Jeremiah 13:11. For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man Here God shows the prophet why he commanded him to put the girdle about his loins. So have I caused Rather, had I caused; to cleave unto me the house of Israel I had betrothed them to myself in righteousness, and entered into a marriage covenant with them, that they might cleave to me as a wife cleaveth to her husband. By the laws I gave them, the prophets I sent among them, and the favours which, in my providence, I... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 13:1-27

A nation useless and disgraced (13:1-27)In an effort to emphasize God’s warnings to Judah more forcefully, Jeremiah gave them an illustration that they could all see. He took a piece of clean new cloth, put it around his waist, then walked to a distant river where he buried the cloth in the river bank. Some time later he returned to the river and brought back the cloth for all to see. It was now rotten and useless (13:1-7). The meaning is that Judah, the nation that was supposed to be morally... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 13:10

imagination = stubbornness. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 13:11

house of Israel. See note on Jeremiah 2:4 . house of Judah. See note on Jeremiah 3:18 . saith the LORD = [is] Jehovah's oracle. that they might be unto Me for a people. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 19:5 ). App-92 . read more

Thomas Coke