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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 6:21 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 6:21 |
King James |
Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish. |
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] |
stumbling-blocks--instruments of the Jews' ruin (compare Mat 21:44; Isa 8:14; Pe1 2:8). God Himself ("I") lays them before the reprobate (Psa 69:22; Rom 1:28; Rom 11:9).
fathers . . . sons . . . neighbour . . . friend--indiscriminate ruin. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
"Behold," I give unto "this people" causes of stumbling,
And they shall stumble against them:
Fathers and sons together,
"The neighbor and his friend shall perish."
This is the natural consequence of their conduct. Their service of Yahweh was a systematic hypocrisy: how then could they walk uprightly with their fellow-men? When God lays stumblingblocks in men's way, it is by the general action of His moral law Jam 1:13-14, by which willful sin in one point reacts upon the whole moral nature Jam 2:10. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| I will say - I will suffer such things to be laid in their way, as shall be the occasion of their destruction. The neighbour - Men of all sorts and conditions. |
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.