Geneva Bible Notes: Jeremiah 6

Jeremiah 6:1 ^b Which was a citie in Judah six miles from Bethlehem, {2 Chro. 11, 6}.

Jeremiah 6:1 ^c Read {Nehe. 3, 14}

Jeremiah 6:1 ^a He speaketh to them chiefly because thei shuld take heade by the example of their brethren the other halfe of their tribe, which were now carried away prisoners.

Jeremiah 6:1 ^! The comming of the Assyrians and Caldeans.

Jeremiah 6:2 ^d I haue intreated her fentely & giuen her abundance of all things.

Jeremiah 6:3 ^e She shalbe so destroied, that the shepe may be fed in her.

Jeremiah 6:4 ^f He speaketh this in the persone of the Babylonians, which complaine that the time faileth them before thei haue broght their enterpreises to passe.

Jeremiah 6:7 ^g He sheweth the cause why it shulde by destroyed & how it cometh of them selues.

Jeremiah 6:8 ^h He warneth them to amend by his corrections, & to turne to him by repentance.

Jeremiah 6:9 ⁱ He exhorteth the Babylonians to be diligent to searche out all & to leaue none.

Jeremiah 6:10 ^k Thei delite to heare vayne things & to shut vp their cares to true doctrine.

Jeremiah 6:11 ^l As the Lord had giuen him his worde to be as a fyre of his indignation to burne the wicked, {Chap. 5, 14} so he dindeleth it now when he seeth that all remedies are past.

Jeremiah 6:11 ^m None shalbe spared.

Jeremiah 6:14 ⁿ When the people began to feare Gods judgements, the false Prophetes comforted them by flatterings, shewing that God wolde send peace and warre.

Jeremiah 6:15 ^/ Ebr. them that fall.

Jeremiah 6:16 ^! He exhorteth the Jewes to repentance.

Jeremiah 6:16 ^o Wherein the patrarkes and Prophets walked, directed by the worde of God: signifying that there is no true way, but that which God prescribeth.

Jeremiah 6:17 ^p Prophetes which shulde warne you of the dangers that were at hand.

Jeremiah 6:18 ^q God taketh all the worlde to witnes and the insensible creatures of the ingratitude of the Jewes.

Jeremiah 6:20 ^r Read {Isa. 1, 11} & {Amos. 5, 21}.

Jeremiah 6:22 ^s From Babylon by Dan, which was North from Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 6:24 ^t For feare of the enemie, he speaketh this in the persone of the Jewes.

Jeremiah 6:27 ^u Meaning Jeremiah, whom God had appointed to trie out the godlie from the wicked as a founder doeth the pure mettal from the drosse.

Jeremiah 6:29 ^x All the paine & labour that hathe bene taken with them, is lost.