Jeremiah 13:14 — meaning, Hebrew and Greek word study, commentary
Jeremiah 13:14
And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.
to dash to pieces · conjunction + verb, piel sequential perfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
one
אִ֨ישׁ'ish
H376
a man as an individual or a male person · noun, common masculine singular absolute
another
אָחִ֜יו'a.Chiv
H251
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relation… · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
fathers
וְהָאָב֧וֹתve.ha.'a.Vot
H1
father · conjunction + definite article + noun, common feminine plural absolute
sons
וְהַבָּנִ֛יםve.ha.ba.Nim
H1121
a son (as a builder of the family name) · conjunction + definite article + noun, common masculine plural absolute
together
יַחְדָּ֖וyach.Dav
H3162
properly · adverb
saith
נְאֻםne.'um-
H5002
an oracle · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD
יְהוָ֑הYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
pity
אֶחְמ֧וֹל'ech.Mol
H2550
to commiserate · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular
spare
אָח֛וּס'a.Chus
H2347
properly · verb, qal imperfect, 1st person common singular
mercy
אֲרַחֵ֖ם'a.ra.Chem
H7355
to fondle · verb, piel imperfect, 1st person common singular
destroy
מֵהַשְׁחִיתָֽםme.hash.chi.Tam
H7843
to decay · preposition + verb, hiphil infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
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Cross-references
Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are writt…
Psalms 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.
Isaiah 9:20-21 And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat eve…
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding…
Jeremiah 6:21 Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon…
Jeremiah 19:9-11 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend…
Jeremiah 21:7 And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city fr…
Judges 7:20-22 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right h…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 13:12-21
Here is, I. A judgment threatened against this people that would quite intoxicate them. This doom is pronounced against them in a figure, to make it the more taken notice of and the more affecting (Jer 13:12): Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, every bottle shall be filled with wine; that is, those that by their sins have made themselves vessels of wrath fitted to destruction shall be filled with the wrath of God as a bottle is with wine; and, as every vessel of mercy prepared for glory shall be filled with mercy and glory, so they shall be full of the fury of the Lord (Isa 51:20); and they shall be brittle as bottles; and, like old bottles into which new wine is put, they shall burst and be…
dash-- (Psa 2:9). As a potter's vessel (Rev 2:27).
John Gill on Jeremiah 13:14
And I will dash them one against another,.... As drunken men fall foul on one another, and quarrel and fight; or in allusion to bottles and earthen vessels they are before compared to; and may denote the internal broils and contentions among themselves, that instead of assisting each other in their distress, they would be destroying one another; which was notorious in the last siege of Jerusalem:
even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord; no relation, nor even age nor sex, being regarded:
I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them: the Lord's hand was in all this; everything was by his permission, and according to his will; he would not prevent the enemy's in…
Jeremiah 13:12-14
12 Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
12. Dices etiam illis (hoc est, annuntiabis) hunc sermonem, Sic dicit Jehova, Deus Israel, Omnis lagena (alii vertunt, utrem, sed hoc loco parum interest, omnis ergo lagena) implebitur vino: et dicent tibi, An non sciendo scimus (hoc est, An nesciendo non scimus) quod omnis lagena implebitur vino?
13. Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne,…
The Church Fathers
"And the priests," then, "and the prophets and Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem" God says he will fill "with drunkenness" and will scatter "them, a man and his brother, and their fathers and their sons." And let us understand these things also thus: the righteous God gathers together, but the sinners he scatters. For this reason, at the time when men did not move from the east, God did not scatter them; but when they moved "from the east" and "a man said to his neighbor: Come, and let us build for ourselves a city and a tower, whose top shall be up to heaven," God says concerning these: "Come, and going down let us confound their language there," and each one is confounded and is scattered to some place of the earth. And the people of Israel too, so long as they did not sin, were in Judea, but when they sinned they are scattered thereafter from the inhabited world and dispersed everywhere. Understand something of this sort for me concerning all of us as well. There is a certain church of the firstborn who are enrolled in the heavens, where is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. The blessed will be gathered together there, so that they may be together. But in this very thing the sinners are punished, in not being with one another. I know of some in this life who, for the sake of punishment, wish to hand over to some island, and for the sake of torment scatter the household of one who has offended the kingdom — the wife here, one son here, then the other elsewhere — so that not even in their misfortune may the mother enjoy the company of the son, or the brother of the brother. Understand something of this sort also in the case of the unjust. It is necessary that you, the sinner, taste something more bitter, being managed by God, so that being disciplined you may be saved. And just as you punish the household servant or son who is punished by you, not simply wishing to torture him, but that you may turn him back by the sufferings, so also God will discipline with the sufferings that come from afflictions those who do not turn back at the word, who have not been healed. He casts about, for the sake of discipline, the things he casts about, according to what is said: "Continually with suffering and scourge you shall be disciplined, Jerusalem." So then, in order that the disciplining suffering may increase, those who…
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Dictionary and topics
Winds — Blowing from the four quarters of heaven (Jer. 49:36; Ezek. 37:9; Dan. 8:8; Zech. 2:6). The east wind was parching (Ezek. 17:10; 19:12), and is sometimes mentioned as simply denoting a strong wind…
Bottles · Illustrative: Of sinners ripe for judgment — Illustrative: Of sinners ripe for judgment
Parables · Of the skins filled with wine — Of the skins filled with wine
Wine · Illustrative: Of the wrath and judgments of God — Illustrative: Of the wrath and judgments of God
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How the Lord will destroy His degenerate people, and how they may yet escape the impending ruin. - Jer 13:12. "And speak unto them this word: Thus hath Jahveh the God of Israel said, Every jar is filled with wine. And when they say to thee, Know we not that every jar is filled with wine? Jer 13:13. Then say to them: Thus hath Jahve said: Behold, I fill all inhabitants of this land - the kings that sit for David upon his throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem - with drunkenness, Jer 13:14. And dash them one against another, the fathers and the sons together, saith Jahve; I will not spare, nor pity, nor have mercy, not to destroy them. - Jer 13:15. Hear ye…
Of course! The people assumed that the Lord would continue to bless them as he had in the past (Ps 104:15; Prov 9:2-5). However, the wine was not a symbol of blessing; in this case, drunkenness symbolized God’s wrath (cp. Rev 14:10).
Rashi on Jeremiah 13:14
And I will dash them one against the other I will dash one against the other until they break into small pieces. Cf (Psalms 2:9) “Like a potter’s vessel shall you shatter them (תנפצם)” (ibid. 137: 9). “And dash ונפץ your babes”; and so is every expression of נפוץ in Scripture.
and the fathers and the sons I will dash one against the other.
