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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 46:23 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 46:23 |
King James |
They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
her forest-- (Isa 10:34).
though it cannot be searched--They cut down her forest, dense and unsearchable (Job 5:9; Job 9:10; Job 36:26) as it may seem: referring to the thickly set cities of Egypt, which were at that time a thousand and twenty. The Hebrew particle is properly, "for," "because."
because--the reason why the Chaldeans shall be able to cut down so dense a forest of cities as Egypt: they themselves are countless in numbers.
grasshoppers--locusts (Jdg 6:5). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Or, "They have cut down her forest, saith Yahweh, for it is impenetrable," i. e., just as a pathless forest must be cleared to assist agriculture and the passage to and fro of men, so must the false worship and the material prosperity of Egypt be overthrown.
Grasshoppers - The invading host advances as multitudinous as the locusts which consume the whole vegetation of the land on which they alight. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Tho' - Tho' it seem impenetrable. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| They shall cut down her forest - Supposed to mean her cities, of which Egypt had no fewer than one thousand and twenty. |
5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.
26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
10 Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.