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A Punishment Worse Than Death
Commentators agree that being left unburied for animals to consume was a horrific judgment, described as a fate "more severe than death itself." The detail that no one would frighten the beasts away underscores the total desolation and abandonment, fulfilling the covenant curses found in Deuteronomy 28:26.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 7:29–33
18th Century
Theologian
Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 7:33
19th Century
Bishop
None shall fray them away. —No picture could be more appalling in its horrors—streets and valleys filled with the bodies …
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 7:33
16th Century
Theologian
Jeremiah threatens them with something more severe than death itself — that God would impress the marks of His wrath even on their dead bodies. It …
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 7:33
17th Century
Pastor
And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls
of the heaven, and for the beasts of the ea…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 7:29–34
17th Century
Minister
As a token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded and separated from God, as she had been separated to him.
The heart is t…