Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 1:1

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 1:1 - 1:1

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 1:1 - 1:1

(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

1:1 - 1:1
1:2 - 1:2
1:4 - 1:4
1:5 - 1:5
1:6 - 1:6
1:7 - 1:7
1:8 - 1:8
1:9 - 1:9
1:10 - 1:10
1:11 - 1:11
1:12 - 1:12
1:13 - 1:13
1:14 - 1:14
1:15 - 1:15
1:16 - 1:16
1:17 - 1:17
1:18 - 1:18

Jer 1:1-19. The general title or introduction.

Jer 1:1-3, probably prefixed by Jeremiah, when he collected his prophecies and gave them to his countrymen to take with them to Babylon [Michaelis].

Anathoth - a town in Benjamin, twenty stadia, that is, two or three miles north of Jerusalem; now Anata (compare Isa 10:30, and the context, Isa 10:28-32). One of the four cities allotted to the Kohathites in Benjamin (Jos 21:18). Compare 1Ki 2:26, 1Ki 2:27; a stigma was cast thenceforth on the whole sacerdotal family resident there; this may be alluded to in the words here, “the priests ... in Anathoth.” God chooses “the weak, base, and despised things ... to confound the mighty.”