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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 22:6 - 22:6
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Though thou art as beautiful as Gilead, and as majestic in Mine eyes (before Me) as the summit of Lebanon, yet surely (the Hebrew is a formula of swearing to express certainly: “If I do not make thee ... believe Me not ever hereafter”: so “as truly as I live,” Num 14:28; “surely,” Num 14:35). The mention of Gilead may allude not only to its past beauty, but covertly also to its desolation by the judgment on Israel; a warning now to Judah and the house of David. “Lebanon” is appropriately mentioned, as the king’s house was built of its noble cedars.
cities - not other cities, but the different parts of the city of Jerusalem (2Sa 12:27; 2Ki 10:25) [Maurer].