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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 20:1-18

Subsection 6). Lessons From The Potter and The Subsequent Persecution Of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 18:1 to Jeremiah 20:18 ). This subsection commences with the usual kind of formula, ‘The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH --’ (Jeremiah 18:1). Chapters 18-19 then contain two oracles from God illustrated in terms of the Potter and his handiwork, which bring out on the one hand God’s willingness to offer mercy, and on the other the judgment that is about to come on Judah because of their... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 20:7-13

Jeremiah Is So Distraught That He Berates YHWH And Points Out How Tough He Is Finding Things, And Yet He Admits That He Has To Speak Out Whether He Likes It Or Not Because YHWH’s Word Is Like A Burning Fire Within Him, And He Finishes On A Note Of Praise Because He Is Aware That YHWH Is His Support (Jeremiah 20:7-13 ). While up to this point Jeremiah had been sneered at and jeered at he had never had to suffer physical violence, having been seen as sacrosanct as a prophet of YHWH. This... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 20:7-18

Jeremiah 20:7-Job : . The Prophet’ s Troubles, Hopes, and Dark Despair.— In passionate protest against his lot (possibly occasioned by the incident just related) Jeremiah complains that Yahweh has beguiled him into the work of a prophet, only that he may incur bitter shame, and suffer violence. Yet the inner compulsion of the prophetic word will not allow him to restrain it ( i.e. “ forbear” , Jeremiah 20:9), though it subjects him to the charge of treasonable utterance ( Jeremiah 26:11).... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 20:8

For since I spake, I cried out: if the particle be translated since, as we translate it, the meaning is, Since I first began to be a prophet, I have faithfully discharged my prophetical office, and that with some warmth and zeal. I cried violence and spoil: some understand it of the violence which he himself experienced: others understand it of those acts of injustice and violence which were found amongst the people; he cried out against them: others understand it as a denunciation of judgment;... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 20:1-18

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. Chronology of the Chapter. With chap. 20 the first section of this book closes. Probably this was Jeremiah’s last public prophecy in Jehoiakim’s reign, and formed the concluding entry in the “roll” which was read in part before Jehoiakim, and which Jehoiakim “cut with his penknife and cast into the fire” (chap. Jeremiah 36:23). To that “roll,” which seems to have concluded with this emphatic prophecy as to the Babylonian Captivity (cf. Jeremiah 20:4 with... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 20:1-18

Chapter 20Now Pashur ( Jeremiah 20:1 ).And the name means "prosperity all around."Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah had prophesied these things. Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD ( Jeremiah 20:1-2 ).So Jeremiah is now shut up in the stocks by this fellow whose name means "prosperity all over the place," you... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 20:1-18

Jeremiah 20:3 . The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, which signifies security or increase; but Magormissabib, a terror on every side, or terrors of a captivity. Pashur believed the prophet, yet put him in the stocks for preaching! His new name is compound, and very expressive. Gor in Hebrew designates migration to another country. Some men obtain new names for illustrious virtues, and some new names for deplorable crimes. Jeremiah 20:9 . Then I said, I will not make mention of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 20:8

Jer 20:8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. Ver. 8. For since I spake, I cried out, ] i.e., Ever since I took upon me the office of a prophet, I executed it vigorously, I cried with full mouth. Jeremiah 4:5 Isa 58:1 I cried violence and spoil, ] sc., Will surely befall you by the Chaldees. Or, I cried out of my misusages. Because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 20:8

I cried: Jeremiah 4:19-Song of Solomon :, Jeremiah 5:1, Jeremiah 5:6, Jeremiah 5:15-Esther :, Jeremiah 6:6, Jeremiah 6:7, Jeremiah 7:9, Jeremiah 13:13, Jeremiah 13:14, Jeremiah 15:1-Numbers :, Jeremiah 15:13, Jeremiah 15:14, Jeremiah 17:27, Jeremiah 18:16, Jeremiah 18:17, Jeremiah 19:7-1 Kings :, Jeremiah 28:8 the word: Jeremiah 20:7, Jeremiah 6:10, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Lamentations 3:61-2 John :, Luke 11:45, Hebrews 11:26, Hebrews 13:13, 1 Peter 4:14 Reciprocal: Nehemiah 2:19 - they Job 19:7... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Jeremiah 20:8

For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.Since — Since I first began to be a prophet, I have faithfully discharged my office, and that with warmth and zeal.Spoil — I have prophesied that violence and spoil was coming.Because — Because of that scorn and derision with which they treated him. read more