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A Crisis for All Classes
Most commentators clarify that "their little ones" likely refers to servants or common people, not children. The nobles, the elite of society, are sending their subordinates on a desperate and futile search for water. This detail highlights a society-wide crisis where the drought has leveled social distinctions, leaving everyone, from the powerful to the poor, helpless.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 14:3
18th Century
Theologian
Little ones – mean ones, the common people. The word is unique to Jeremiah (Jeremiah 48:4).
The pits – that is, ta…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 14:3
19th Century
Bishop
Their little ones. —Not their children, but their menial servants. The word is peculiar to Jeremiah, and occurs only here and in J…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 14:2–6
19th Century
Preacher
The distress in the land was so great that the city gates, where, in more prosperous times, business transactions took place, and meetings of the p…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 14:2–3
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet suggests in these words that the scarcity would be so great as to appear to be a manifest and remarkable evidence of God’s vengeance. F…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 14:3
17th Century
Pastor
And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters ,
&c.] To places where water used to be; to the pools, th…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 14:1–9
17th Century
Minister
The people were in tears. But it was the cry of their trouble and their sin, rather than of their prayer. Let us be thankful for the mercy of water…