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Take the belt that you have bought, which is on your loins, and arise, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
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A Prophetic Picture of Exile
Commentators agree this act is a powerful symbol. The linen girdle represents Judah, chosen to be close to God and bring Him glory. Hiding it by the Euphrates—the river of Babylon—vividly pictures the coming exile. There, in a foreign land, the nation's pride and honor would be marred and corrupted, just like the buried, rotting girdle.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In a hole of the rock - “In a cleft of the rock.” As there are no fissured rocks in Babylonia, the place where Jeremiah hi…
19th Century
Anglican
Go to Euphrates. The Hebrew word Phrath is the same as that which, everywhere else in the Old Testament, is translated as…
16th Century
Protestant
I have said that there is here a new prophecy, for the Prophet is said to buy for himself a girdle or a belt, or, according to some, a truss or bre…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Take the girdle which you have got, which is upon your loins , and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of…
It was common for the prophets to teach by signs. And we have the explanation in Jeremiah 13:9-11.
The people of Israel had been to God as t…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, the prophet shows the dignity of the people based on their connection to God.
The passage is divided into two parts. The first is an a…
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