Jeremiah 14:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.

Jeremiah 14:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 17:8
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Canaan Deafness Drought Famine Godlessness Heart Hunger

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-9)

The first verse is the title of the whole chapter: it does indeed all concern the dearth, but much of it consists of the prophet’s prayers concerning it; yet these are not unfitly said to be, The word of the Lord which came to him concerning it, for every acceptable prayer is that which God puts into our hearts; nothing is our word that comes to him but what is first his word that comes from him.…

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

(vv. 1)

Jr 14:1-22. Prophecies on the Occasion of a Drought Sent in Judgment on Judea. 1. Literally, “That which was the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah concerning the dearth” drought--literally, the “withholdings,” namely, of rain (De 11:17; 2Ch 7:13). This word should be used especially of the withholding of rain because rain is in those regions of all things the one chiefly needed (Jr 17:8, Margin).