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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 46:20 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 46:20 |
Strong Concordance |
Egypt [04714] is like a very fair [03304] heifer [05697], but destruction [07171] cometh [0935]; it cometh out [0935] of the north [06828]. |
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King James |
Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north. |
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] |
heifer--wanton, like a fat, untamed heifer (Hos 10:11). Appropriate to Egypt, where Apis was worshipped under the form of a fair bull marked with spots.
destruction--that is, a destroyer: Nebuchadnezzar. Vulgate translates, "a goader," answering to the metaphor, "one who will goad the heifer" and tame her. The Arabic idiom favors this [ROSENMULLER].
cometh . . . cometh--The repetition implies, it cometh surely and quickly (Psa 96:13).
out of the north--(See on Jer 1:14; Jer 47:2). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Is like - Or, is. Her god was the steer Apis Jer 46:15, and she is the spouse.
But destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north - More probably, "a gadfly from the north has come upon her." This is a sort of insect which stings the oxen and drives them to madness. Compare Isa 7:18. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| A serpent - Egypt is now like an heifer that makes a great bellowing, but the time shall come when she shall make a lesser noise like the hissing of a serpent. With axes - For the Chaldeans shall come with an army, armed with battle - axes, as if they came to fell wood in a forest. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Egypt is like a very fair heifer - Fruitful and useful; but destruction cometh out of the north, from Chaldea. It may be that there is an allusion here to Isis, worshipped in Egypt under the form of a beautiful cow. |
2 Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068]; Behold, waters [04325] rise up [05927] out of the north [06828], and shall be an overflowing [07857] flood [05158], and shall overflow [07857] the land [0776], and all that is therein [04393]; the city [05892], and them that dwell [03427] therein: then the men [0120] shall cry [02199], and all the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776] shall howl [03213].
14 Then the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto me, Out of the north [06828] an evil [07451] shall break forth [06605] upon all the inhabitants [03427] of the land [0776].
13 Before [06440] the LORD [03068]: for he cometh [0935], for he cometh [0935] to judge [08199] the earth [0776]: he shall judge [08199] the world [08398] with righteousness [06664], and the people [05971] with his truth [0530].
11 And Ephraim [0669] is as an heifer [05697] that is taught [03925], and loveth [0157] to tread out [01758] the corn; but I passed over [05674] upon her fair [02898] neck [06677]: I will make Ephraim [0669] to ride [07392]; Judah [03063] shall plow [02790], and Jacob [03290] shall break his clods [07702].
18 And it shall come to pass in that day [03117], that the LORD [03068] shall hiss [08319] for the fly [02070] that is in the uttermost part [07097] of the rivers [02975] of Egypt [04714], and for the bee [01682] that is in the land [0776] of Assyria [0804].
15 Why are thy valiant [047] men swept away [05502]? they stood [05975] not, because the LORD [03068] did drive [01920] them.