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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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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 1:14
18th Century
Theologian
Out of the north ...- The caldron represents the great military empires upon the Euphrates. In Hezekiah’s time, Nineveh was at thei…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 1:14
19th Century
Bishop
Out of the north an evil. —Literally, the evil, long foretold, as in Micah 3:12, and elsewhere, and long expected.
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 1:11–14
19th Century
Preacher
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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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 1:13–14
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 1:14
17th Century
Pastor
Then the Lord said to me
Explaining the above vision: out of the north an evil shall break forth upon al…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 1:11–19
17th Century
Minister
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…