Geneva Bible Notes: Jeremiah 13

Jeremiah 13:1 ^! The destruction of the Jewes is prefigured.

Jeremiah 13:4 ^a Because this riuer Periath or Euphrates was farre from Jerusalem, it is eiudent, that this was a vision, whereby was signified that the Jewes shulde passe ouer Euphrates to be captiues, in Babylon & therefor length of time shulde seme to be rotten: althogh they were joyned to the Lord before as a girdle about a man.

Jeremiah 13:11 ^! Why Israel was receiued to be the people of God, and why they were forsaken.

Jeremiah 13:12 ^b Euerie one of you shalbe filled with spiritual drunkenes, and be without all knowledge to seke how to helpe your selues.

Jeremiah 13:14 ^c It shalbe as easie for me to destroye the greatest and the strongest, as it is for a man to break earthen bottels.

Jeremiah 13:15 ^! He exhorteth them to repentance.

Jeremiah 13:16 ^d That is, affliction & miserie by the Babylonians, {Isa. 8, 22}

Jeremiah 13:16 ^e Meaning, for helpe and support of the Egyptians

Jeremiah 13:17 ^f You shal surely be led away captiue & I, acording to mine affection toward you, shal wepe, and lament for your stubbernes.

Jeremiah 13:18 ^g For Jehoiachin, & his mother rendred them selues by Jeremiahs counsel to the King of Babylon, {2 King. 24, 12}.

Jeremiah 13:19 ^h That is, of Judah which lieth Southward from Babylon.

Jeremiah 13:20 ⁱ He asketh the King, where his people is become.

Jeremiah 13:21 ^k By seking to strangers for helpe thou hast made them skilful to fight against thee.

Jeremiah 13:22 ^l Thy cloke of hypocrisie shal be pulled of and thy shame sene.

Jeremiah 13:26 ^m As thine iniquities haue bene manifest to all the worlde: so shal thy shame, & punishment.

Jeremiah 13:27 ⁿ He compareth idolaters to horses inflamed after mares.

Jeremiah 13:27 ^o There is no place so hie nor lo, where as the markes and signes of thine idolatrie appeare not.