Jeremiah 1:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

Jeremiah 1:13 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 11:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
Ezekiel 11:3
Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.
2 Corinthians 13:1-2
This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. …
Zechariah 4:2
And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
Ezekiel 24:3-14
And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it: …

Topics

Israel, Prophecies Concerning Symbols and Similitudes

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-19)

Here, I. God gives Jeremiah, in vision, a view of the principal errand he was to go upon, which was to foretel the destruction of Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, for their sins, especially their idolatry. This was at first represented to him in away proper to make an impression upon him, that he might have it upon his heart in all his dealings with this people. 1. He intimates to him that th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Another vision, signifying what is the “word” about to be “performed,” and by what instrumentality. seething--literally, “blown under”; so boiling by reason of the flame under it kept brisk by blowing. An Oriental symbol of a raging war. toward--rather, “from the north.” Literally, “from the face of the region situated towards the north” (compare Jr 1:14, 15) [Maurer]. The pot in the north res…