(0.30) | (Jer 48:21) | 1 sn See the study note on Jer 48:8 for reference to this tableland or high plain that lay between the Arnon and Heshbon. |
(0.30) | (Jer 48:11) | 1 sn The picture is that of undisturbed complacency (cf. Zeph 1:12). Because Moab had never known the discipline of exile, she had remained as she always was. |
(0.30) | (Jer 47:4) | 4 sn All the help that remains for Tyre and Sidon and that remnant that came from the island of Crete appear to be two qualifying phrases that refer to the Philistines, the last pertaining to their origin and the first to their vital alliance with Tyre and Sidon. “Crete” is literally “Caphtor,” which is generally identified with the island of Crete. The Philistines had come from there (Amos 9:7) in the wave of migration from the Aegean Islands during the twelfth and eleventh centuries. They had settled on the Philistine plain after having been repulsed from trying to enter Egypt. |
(0.30) | (Jer 46:13) | 1 tn Heb “The word that the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt.” |
(0.30) | (Jer 43:10) | 1 sn This is another of those symbolic prophecies of Jeremiah that involved an action and an explanation. Cf. Jer 19 and 27. |
(0.30) | (Jer 39:2) | 1 sn According to modern reckoning, that would have been July 18, 586 b.c. The siege thus lasted almost a full eighteen months. |
(0.30) | (Jer 38:24) | 2 tn Or “so that you will not die.” Or “or you will die.” See the similar construction in 37:20 and the translator’s note there. |
(0.30) | (Jer 38:22) | 1 tn Heb “And they will say.” The words “taunt you” are supplied in the translation to give the flavor of the words that follow. |
(0.30) | (Jer 38:14) | 1 tn The words “Some time later” are not in the text but are a way of translating the conjunction “And” or “Then” that introduces this narrative. |
(0.30) | (Jer 37:20) | 2 tn Heb “let my plea for mercy fall before you.” That is, let it come before you and be favorably received (= granted; by metonymical extension). |
(0.30) | (Jer 36:22) | 1 tn Heb “in the autumn house.” Commentators are agreed that this was not a separate building or palace but the winter quarters in the palace. |
(0.30) | (Jer 36:13) | 1 tn Heb “Micaiah reported to them all the words that he heard when Baruch read from the scroll in the ears of the people.” |
(0.30) | (Jer 35:1) | 2 tn Heb “The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying.” |
(0.30) | (Jer 34:12) | 1 sn This is the resumption of the introduction in v. 8 after the lengthy description of the situation that had precipitated the Lord’s message to Jeremiah. |
(0.30) | (Jer 33:17) | 2 sn It should be noted once again that the reference is to all Israel, not just to Judah (cf. Jer 23:5-6; 30:9). |
(0.30) | (Jer 33:10) | 1 sn The phrase here is parallel to that in v. 4 and introduces a further amplification of the “great and mysterious things” of v. 3. |
(0.30) | (Jer 32:30) | 1 tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.” For this idiom see BDB 744 s.v. עַיִן 3.c and compare usage in 18:10. |
(0.30) | (Jer 32:24) | 5 tn The word “Lord” is not in the text but is supplied in the translation as a reminder that it is he who is being addressed. |
(0.30) | (Jer 31:40) | 3 sn The Kidron Valley is the valley that joins the Hinnom Valley in the southeastern corner of the city and runs northward on the east side of the city. |
(0.30) | (Jer 31:27) | 3 sn The metaphor used here presupposes that drawn in Hos 2:23 (2:25 HT), which is in turn based on the wordplay with Jezreel (meaning “God sows”) in Hos 2:22. The figure is that of plant seed in the ground that produces a crop; here what are sown are the “seeds of people and animals.” For a similar picture of the repopulating of Israel and Judah, see Ezek 36:10-11. The promise here reverses the scene of devastation that Jeremiah had depicted apocalyptically and hyperbolically in Jer 4:23-29 as judgment for Judah’s sins. |