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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 6:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 6:17 |
King James |
Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken. |
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] |
| watchmen--prophets, whose duty it was to announce impending calamities, so as to lead the people to repentance (Isa 21:11; Isa 58:1; Eze 3:17; Hab 2:1). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Watchmen - The prophets Isa 52:8.
The second of the trumpet - This was the signal for flight Jer 6:1; Amo 3:6. Similarly the prophet's warning was to move men to escape from God's judgments. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Trumpet - The voice of his prophet, intimating his loud crying upon the account of eminent danger. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| I set watchmen - I have sent prophets to warn you. |
1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
11 The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.