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Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break forth on all the inhabitants of the land.
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The Northern Threat Identified
Commentators unanimously identify the 'north' as the direction from which the Babylonian (or Chaldean) empire would invade. This was not a vague, general threat but a specific prophecy pointing to a known geopolitical power. God was making it clear to Jeremiah and Judah exactly where the instrument of His judgment would originate.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Out of the north ...- The caldron represents the great military empires upon the Euphrates. In Hezekiah’s time, Nineveh was at thei…
19th Century
Anglican
Out of the north an evil. —Literally, the evil, long foretold, as in Micah 3:12, and elsewhere, and long expected.
Baptist
The Chaldeans and the Babylonians were like a great cauldron, boiling and seething, sending forth smoke and steam over the nations, and ready to sc…
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16th Century
Protestant
Jeremiah now begins to address the people to whom he was sent as a Prophet. He has until now spoken of his calling, so that the authority of his do…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then the Lord said to me Explaining the above vision: out of the north an evil shall break forth upon al…
God gave Jeremiah a view of the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans. The almond tree, which blooms earlier in the spring than any o…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, the author describes the destruction of Jerusalem itself.
He speaks of the incitement to see, what do you see?, as menti…
