The Strand Study Bible

JEREMIAH 15:11

JEREMIAH 16:11

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The promise to spare Jeremiah and a remnant (Fulfilled - Jere 39:11,12,14 & 40:1-5 -586 BC) 11 The LORD said, 1 Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction. P 12 2 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel? P 13 1 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders. P 14 1 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you. P 15 O LORD, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy long- suffering: know that for thy sake I have suf- fered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found, 3 and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God OF HOSTS . 17 I 4 sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation. 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me 5 as a liar, and as waters that fail? 19 Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them. 20 And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: 6 and they shall fight against thee, 7 but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the LORD. P 21 7 And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible. P Jeremiah 16 The sign of the unmarried prophet (A symbol of family dismembering) Date Written - c. 603 BC/AM 3397 1 The word of the LORD came also unto me, saying, 2 8 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither

shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; 4 2 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as 9 dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. P 5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into thehouseofmourning, neither go to lament nor 10 bemoan them: 2 for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies. P 6 2 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them: P 7 2 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them 11 the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother. P 8 2 Thou shalt not also go into 11 the house of feasting, to sit with them to eat and to drink. P 9 For thus saith the LORD OF HOSTS , the God of Israel; 2 Behold, I will cause to 12 cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. P God is accused of audaciousness 10 2 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, 12 Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God? P 11 Then shalt thou say unto them, 13 Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

1. Fulfilled - Jere 39:11-12,14 & 40:1-5 (Remnant Spared) 2. Fulfilled - II Ki 25 (Fall of Judah) 3. Ezk 3:1-3 4. Psa 1:1 5. or, “as an unreliable stream” 6. Jere 20 & 38 7. Fulfilled - Jeremiah did not die by the hands of those who hated him. As far as we know, he died in Egypt (Jere 43,44) 8. Note - Jeremiah, no doubt tired (he’d been preaching for 25 years at this point) and lonely (he was already 45 years old), must have been considering settling down and getting married when God warned him not to take a wife ( Thou shalt not take thee a wife )… for the generation he had entered was doomed to destruction. God’s refusal to permit the prophet to settle down and raise a family was not an insensitive decree, but a kind gift. Because of the immense suffering and horror that was promised to come (vs 3-9), God wanted to spare Jeremiah the anguish of losing loved ones. Truly, there are times when it would be better not to have children (Mt 24:15, 19). 9. Zeph 1:17 10. Ezk 24:17,23 11. that is, “the customary meal after a funeral” 12. Ezk 26:13 13. Deut 29:24

16:10 The people of God thought to themselves: “Who does God think He is to pronounce this judgment against us ? What audaciousness. How dare He!” Sadly, whenever God’s people begin to question God’s authority (His Word), twisting it into whatever they want it to say, that is when God steps in and stops the nonsense (vs 11-13 and Rom 9:20). Question yourself before you question God or you may end up questioning yourself as to why you questioned God (Lk 16:19-31). Question your word, not His.