Num 15:30-31, Deu 29:19-21, Jer 3:3, 8:12, 36:23, 42:15-18, 43:4-7 | TSK | STEP | doeth ought. presumptuously. Heb. with an high hand.That is, bold, daring, deliberate acts of transgression against the fullest evidence, and in despite of the Divine authority. Such conduct "reproacheth the Lord," as if his commands were needless, unreasonable, and inimical to the happiness of man; his favour were not desirable, or his wrath not to be feared: in short, as if it were more advantageous to rebel against him than to serve him. Such acts admitted of no atonement: the person was condemned to bear his own iniquity, and to be cut off. reproacheth.

Numbers 15:30-31

doeth ought.

9:13; 14:44; Ge 17:14; Ex 21:14; Le 20:3,6,10; De 1:43; 17:12

De 29:19,20; Ps 19:13; Mt 12:32; Heb 10:26,29; 2Pe 2:10

presumptuously. Heb. with an high hand.That is, bold, daring, deliberate acts of transgression against the fullest evidence, and in despite of the Divine authority. Such conduct "reproacheth the Lord," as if his commands were needless, unreasonable, and inimical to the happiness of man; his favour were not desirable, or his wrath not to be feared: in short, as if it were more advantageous to rebel against him than to serve him. Such acts admitted of no atonement: the person was condemned to bear his own iniquity, and to be cut off.

reproacheth.

Ps 69:9; 74:18,22; 79:12; 89:51; Pr 14:31; Isa 37:23,24

despised.

Le 26:15,43; 2Sa 12:9; Ps 119:126; Pr 13:13; Isa 30:12; 1Th 4:8

Heb 10:28,29

his iniquity.

Le 5:1; Ps 38:4; Isa 53:6; Eze 18:20; 1Pe 2:24; 2Pe 2:21

Deuteronomy 29:19-21

this curse.

12; Ge 2:17

that he bless.

17:2; Nu 15:30,39; Ps 10:4-6,11; 49:18; 94:6,7; Pr 29:1

Jer 5:12,13; 7:3-11; 28:15-17; 44:16,17,27; Eze 13:16,22; Eph 5:6

though I walk.

Nu 15:30; Ec 11:9; Ro 1:21; 2Co 10:5; Eph 4:17

imagination. or, stubborness.

Jer 3:17; 7:24; *margins

to add.A very forcible metaphor, denoting the natural progress and increasing avidity of sinful passions and depraved inclinations; which lead men to drink down iniquity as the drunkard does his liquor, without regard to the consequences. Some render, "to add thirst to drunkenness;" and then it implies the insatiableness of men's sinful passions, which hanker for more and more indulgence after the greatest excesses.

drunkenness to thirst. Heb. the drunken to the thirsty.

will not spare.

Ps 78:50; Pr 6:34; Isa 27:11; Jer 13:14; Eze 5:11; 7:4,9; 8:18; 9:10

Eze 14:7,8; 24:14; Ro 8:32; 11:21; 2Pe 2:4,5

the anger.

Ps 74:1

his jealousy.

Ex 20:5; 34:14; Ps 78:58; 79:5; So 8:6; Eze 8:3,5; 23:25; 36:5

Na 1:2; Zep 1:18; 1Co 10:22

smoke.

Ps 18:8; 74:1; Heb 12:29

all the curses.

27:15-26; 28:15-68

blot out.

9:14; 25:19; Ex 32:32,33; Ps 69:28; Eze 14:7,8; Re 3:5

separate.

Jos 7:1-26; Eze 13:9; Mal 3:18; Mt 24:51; 25:32,41,46

are written. Heb. is written.

Jeremiah 3:3

the showers.

9:12; 14:4,22; Le 26:19; De 28:23; Isa 5:6; Joe 1:16-20; Am 4:7

Hag 1:11

latter rain.

5:24

a whore's.

5:3; 6:15; 8:12; 44:16,17; Eze 3:7; 16:30-34; Zep 3:5

thou refusedst.

5:3; Ne 9:17; Zec 7:11,12; Heb 12:25

Jeremiah 8:12

ashamed when.

3:3; 6:15; Ps 52:1,7; Isa 3:9; Zep 3:5; Php 3:19

therefore.

Isa 9:13-17; 24:2; Eze 22:25-31; Ho 4:5,6

in the.

De 32:35; Ho 5:9

Jeremiah 36:23

he cut.

29-31; De 29:19-21; 1Ki 22:8,27; Ps 50:17; Pr 1:30; 5:12; 13:13

Pr 19:21; 21:30; 29:1; Isa 5:18,19; 28:14,15,17-22; Re 22:19

Jeremiah 42:15-18

If.If ye are determined to go into Egypt, the evils which ye dreaded by staying in your own land shall overtake and destroy you there; "and there shall ye die." God turned the policy of the wicked to their own destruction; for while they thought themselves safe in Egypt, there Nebuchadnezzar destroyed both them and the Egyptians.

17; 44:12-14; Ge 31:21; De 17:16; Da 11:17; Lu 9:51

that the sword.

13; 44:13,27; De 28:15,22,45; Pr 13:21; Eze 11:8; Am 9:1-4

Zec 1:6; Joh 11:48

follow close. Heb. cleave. there ye.

44:11,12,27

it be with all the men. Heb. all the men be. they shall.

22; 24:10; 44:14

none.

44:28

As mine.The people had witnessed the tremendous effects of the wrath of God, in the siege and destruction of Jerusalem; and had they not been past feeling, this denunciation must have made their ears tingle, and appalled their very souls.

6:11; 7:20; 39:1-9; 52:4-11; 2Ki 25:4-7; 2Ch 34:25; 36:16-19

La 2:4; 4:11; Eze 22:22; Da 9:11,27; Na 1:6; Re 14:10; 16:2-21

ye shall be.

18:16; 24:9; 25:9; 26:6; 29:18,22; 44:12; De 29:21,22; 1Ki 9:7-9

Isa 65:15; Zec 8:13

and ye shall see.

22:10-12,27