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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 13:4 - 13:4
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Euphrates - In order to support the view that Jeremiah’s act was outward, Henderson considers that the Hebrew Phrath here is Ephratha, the original name of Beth-lehem, six miles south of Jerusalem, a journey easy to be made by Jeremiah. The non-addition of the word “river,” which usually precedes Phrath, when meaning Euphrates, favors this view. But I prefer English Version. The Euphrates is specified as being near Babylon, the Jews future place of exile.
hole - typical of the prisons in which the Jews were to be confined.
the rock - some well-known rock. A sterile region, such as was that to which the Jews were led away (compare Isa 7:19) [Grotius].