Jeremiah 11:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Jeremiah 11:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 11:17-24
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; …
Isaiah 27:11
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Psalms 52:8
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Psalms 80:16
It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Psalms 83:2
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 11-17)

This paragraph, which contains so much of God’s wrath, might very well be expected to follow upon that which goes next before, which contained so much of his people’s sin. When God found so much evil among them we cannot think it strange if it follows, Therefore I will bring evil upon them (Jer. 11:11), the evil of punishment for the evil of sin; and there is no remedy, no relief: the decree has g…

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

(vv. 16)

16. called thy name--made thee. olive--(Psa 52:8; Ro 11:17). The “olive” is chosen to represent the adoption of Judah by the free grace of God, as its oil is the image of richness (compare Psa 23:5; 104:15). with ... noise of ... tumult--or, “at the noise,” &c., namely, at the tumult of the invading army (Is 13:4) [Maurer]. Or, rather, “with the sound of a mighty voice,” namely, that of God, that…