Jeremiah 31:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

Jeremiah 31:39 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zechariah 2:1-2
I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. …
Ezekiel 40:8
He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

Topics

Armory Gareb Goath Jebus Jerusalem Salem Walls, of the Cities Zion

Commentary

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

(vv. 35-40)

Glorious things have been spoken in the Jer. 31:1-34 concerning the gospel church, which that epocha of the Jewish church that was to commence at the return from captivity would at length terminate in, and which all those promises were to have their full accomplishment in. But may we depend upon these promises? Yes, we have here a ratification of them, and the utmost assurance imaginable given of…

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

(vv. 39)

39. measuring-line--(Eze 40:8; Zec 2:1). Gareb--from a Hebrew root, “to scrape”; Syriac, “leprosy”; the locality outside of the city, to which lepers were removed. Goath--from a root, “to toil,” referring to the toilsome ascent there: outside of the city of David, towards the southwest, as Gareb was northwest [Junius].