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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Jeremiah 46

Chapter 46

The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;

The word

This is a general title to the prophecies contained in this and the following chapters, concerning different nations which had less or more connexion with the Jews, either as enemies, neighbours, or allies. They were not delivered at the same time: to some the date is annexed; in others it is left uncertain.

against

1:10 4:7 25:15-29 Genesis 10:5 Numbers 23:9 Zechariah 2:8 Romans 3:29

Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

Against Egypt

14 25:9,19 Ezekiel 29:1-32

Pharaoh-necho

2 Kings 23:29

Pharaoh-nechoh

2 Chronicles 35:20,21

Necho

Carchemish

Isaiah 10:9

in the

25:1 36:1

Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

51:11,12 Isaiah 8:9,10 21:5 Joel 3:9 Nahum 2:1 3:14

Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

furbish

Ezekiel 21:9-11,28

brigandines

51:3

Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the LORD.

and their

Revelation 6:15

beaten down

Heb. broken in pieces. fled apace. Heb. fled a flight.

15 Genesis 19:17 2 Kings 7:6,7 Nahum 2:8

fear

6:25 20:3,4 *marg:; 10 49:29 Isaiah 19:16 Ezekiel 32:10 Revelation 6:15-17

Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

not

Judges 4:15-21 Psalms 33:16,17 147:10,11 Ecclesiastes 9:11 Isaiah 30:16,17 Amos 2:14,15 9:1-3

stumble

12 20:11 50:32 Psalms 27:2 Isaiah 8:15 Daniel 11:19,22

toward

10 1:14 4:6 6:1 25:9

Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

Who

Song of Solomon 3:6 8:5 Isaiah 63:1

as a flood

47:2 Isaiah 8:7,8 Daniel 9:26 11:22 Amos 8:8 Revelation 12:15

Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

riseth

Ezekiel 29:3 32:2

I will go

Exodus 15:9,10 Isaiah 10:13-16 37:24-26

Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men come forth; the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield; and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

rage

Nahum 2:3,4

Ethiopians

Heb. Cush and Put.

Genesis 10:6

Phut

1 Corinthians 1:8 Ezekiel 27:10

Phut

Nahum 3:9

Lubim

Acts 2:10

Lydians

Genesis 10:13 1 Chronicles 1:11

Ludim

Isaiah 66:19 Ezekiel 27:10

Lud

30:5

For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

the day

51:6 Isaiah 13:6 34:6,8 61:2 63:4 Joel 1:15 2:1 Zephaniah 1:14,15 Luke 21:22

the sword

Deuteronomy 32:42 Isaiah 34:5-8 Ezekiel 39:17-21 Zephaniah 1:7,8 Revelation 19:17-21

the north

2,6 2 Kings 24:7

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.

Gilead

8:22 51:8 Genesis 37:25 43:11 Ezekiel 27:17

O virgin

14:17 Isaiah 47:1

in vain

30:12-15 Ezekiel 30:21-25 Micah 1:9 Nahum 3:19 Matthew 5:26 Luke 8:43,44

thou shalt not be cured

Heb. no cure shall be unto thee.

The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

heard

Ezekiel 32:9-12 Nahum 3:8-10

thy cry

14:2 48:34 49:21 51:54 1 Samuel 5:12 Isaiah 15:5-8 Zephaniah 1:10

stumbled

6 Isaiah 10:4 19:2

The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

Cir A

&M. 3398. B.C. 606. Nebuchadrezzar.

43:10-13 44:30 Isaiah 19:1-25 29:1-32

Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

Migdol

43:9 44:1 Exodus 14:2 Ezekiel 30:16-18

Stand

3,4 6:1-5 Joel 3:9-12

the sword

10 2:30 12:12 2 Samuel 2:26 Isaiah 1:20 31:8 34:6 Nahum 2:13

Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.

thy

5,21 Judges 5:20,21 Isaiah 66:15,16

the Lord

Exodus 6:1 Deuteronomy 11:23 Psalms 18:14,39 44:2 68:2 114:2-7

He made many to fall, yea, one fell upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

made many to fall

Heb. multiplied the faller. one.

Leviticus 26:36,37

they said

21 51:9

They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

Pharaoh

Exodus 15:9 1 Kings 20:10,18 Isaiah 19:11-16 31:3 37:27-29 Ezekiel 29:3 Ezekiel 31:18

As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

saith

10:10 44:26 48:15 51:17 Isaiah 47:4 48:2 Malachi 1:14 Matthew 5:35 1 Timothy 1:17

Tabor

Joshua 19:22 Judges 4:6 Psalms 89:12

Carmel

1 Kings 18:42,43

O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

thou

48:18

furnish thyself to go into captivity

Heb. make thee instruments of captivity.

Isaiah 20:4 Ezekiel 12:3 *marg:; Ezekiel 12:4-12

Noph

Noph, or Moph, is the celebrated city of Memphis, as the Chaldee and LXX. render; long the residence of the ancient Egyptian kings, and situated fifteen miles above where the Delta begins, on the western side of the Nile. It was in the neighbourhood of Memphis that the famous pyramids were erected, whose grandeur and beauty still astonish the modern traveller: they are about twenty in number; the largest of which is 481 feet perpendicular height, and the area of its basis is on 480,249 square feet, or something more than eleven acres, being exactly the size of Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. The immense ruins between the northern and southern pyramids, and about fourteen miles from Cairo, still called Memf, Menf, or Menouf, seem to mark the site of this city.

44:1 Ezekiel 30:13

waste

26:9 34:22 51:29,30 Zephaniah 2:5

Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

a very

50:11 Hosea 10:11

it cometh

6,10 1:14 25:9 47:2

Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

her hired

9,16 2 Samuel 10:6 2 Kings 7:6 Ezekiel 27:10,11 30:4-6

like

50:11,27 Isaiah 34:7

fatted bullocks

Heb. bullocks of the stall.

Proverbs 15:17 Amos 6:4

they did

5,15,16

the day

18:17 Deuteronomy 32:15 Psalms 37:13 Isaiah 10:3 Ezekiel 35:5 Hosea 9:7 Obadiah 1:13 Micah 7:4

The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

voice

Isaiah 29:4 Micah 1:8 7:16

and come

51:20-23 Isaiah 10:15,33,34 14:8 37:24 Zechariah 11:2

They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

cut

Isaiah 10:18 Ezekiel 20:46

because

Judges 6:5 7:12 Joel 2:25 Revelation 9:2-10

The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

daughter

11,19 Psalms 137:8

she shall

20 1:15 Ezekiel 29:1-32

The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saith; Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him:

multitude

or, nourisher. Heb. Amon. No.

Ezekiel 30:14 Nahum 3:8

with their

43:12,13 Exodus 12:12 Isaiah 19:1 Ezekiel 30:13 Zephaniah 2:11

and their

Ezekiel 32:9-12 Nahum 3:9

and all

17:5,6 42:14-16 Isaiah 20:5,6 30:2,3 31:1-3 Ezekiel 39:6,7

And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.

I will

44:30 Ezekiel 32:11

and afterward

48:47 49:39 Ezekiel 29:8-14

But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

fear

30:10,11 Isaiah 41:13,14 43:1,5 44:2

I will save

23:3,4 29:14 31:8-11 32:37 Isaiah 11:11-16 Ezekiel 34:10-14 36:24 Ezekiel 37:21,22 39:25 Amos 9:14 Micah 7:11-16

and be

23:6 33:16 50:19 Ezekiel 34:25,26

Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

for I am

1:19 15:20 30:11 Joshua 1:5,9 Psalms 46:7,11 Isaiah 8:9,10 41:10 43:2 Matthew 1:23 28:20 Acts 18:10 2 Timothy 4:17

make

25:9 Isaiah 45:23 Daniel 2:35

but I will not

4:27 5:10,18 30:11 32:42-44 33:24-26 Amos 9:8,9 Romans 11:15-17

correct

10:24 Habakkuk 3:2 1 Corinthians 11:32

will I

Isaiah 27:7,9 Hebrews 12:5-10 Revelation 3:19

not leave thee wholly unpunished

or, not utterly cut thee off.