a day (as the warm hours) · noun, common masculine plural absolute + verb, qal active participle, masculine plural absolute
come
בּוֹאbôwʼ
H935
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
saith
נְאֻםne.'um-
H5002
an oracle · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD
יְהוָ֑הYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
city
הָעִיר֙ha.'Ir
H5892
a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the wi… · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
built
וְנִבְנְתָ֤הve.niv.ne.Tah
H1129
to build (literally and figuratively) · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential perfect, 3rd person feminine singular
LORD
לַֽיהוָ֔הla.Yah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · preposition + proper noun, a title
tower
מִמִּגְדַּ֥לmi.mig.Dal
H4026
a tower (from its size or height) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Hananeel
חֲנַנְאֵ֖לcha.nan.'El
H2606
Chananel · proper noun, a man's name
gate
שַׁ֥עַרSha.'ar
H8179
an opening · noun, common masculine singular construct
corner
הַפִּנָּֽהha.pi.Nah
H6438
an angle · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Zechariah 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from…
2 Kings 14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and br…
Jeremiah 30:18 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be…
2 Chronicles 26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
Jeremiah 31:27 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of…
Nehemiah 2:17-3:1 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and…
Nehemiah 12:30-40 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
Isaiah 44:28 That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple,…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 31:35–end
Glorious things have been spoken in the foregoing verses 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 the perpetuity of the blessings contained in them. The great thing here secured to us is that while the world stands God will have a church in it, which, though sometimes it may be brought very low, shall yet be raised again, and its interests re-established; it is built upon a rock, and the gat…
tower of Hananeel--The city shall extend beyond its former bounds (Neh 3:1; Neh 12:39; Zac 14:10).
gate of . . . corner-- (Kg2 14:13; Ch2 26:9).
John Gill on Jeremiah 31:38
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,.... The word come is not in the text; it is read, but not written. The vowel points are in the text, but not the letters; which those, who are against the antiquity of the points, would do well to consider; since the Jews never suffered any additions to the Bible. Jarchi says this prophecy refers to future times in the latter redemption, and never was fulfilled in the second temple; and indeed, under the figure of rebuilding Jerusalem, seems to be intended the building of the Gospel church, which was to continue to the end of time; for both holiness and perpetuity are ascribed to it:
that the city shall be built to the Lord; the city of Jerusalem; whic…
Jeremiah 31:38-40
38. Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD, from the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
38. Ecce dies (addunt alii v'ym, veniunt) dicit Jehova, et edificabitur urbs Jehovae e turri Chananeel usque ad portam anguli:
39. And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
39. Et exibit adhuc funiculus mensurae coram ipso (vel, coram ipsa porta) et usque ad collem Gazeb, et circumdabit Goathath,
40. And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse-gate toward the east, shall be…
The Church Fathers
Then it continues, "to the corner gate." It is made a corner lest any true justice or any certain victory be thought demonstrable in this world. And the corner gate itself, though it may be "in the east," whence the light originates, is nevertheless called "horse gate," this to teach us that we need to ride and to fight, so that we may deserve to hear with the Lord, "You mounted your horses and the salvation of your chariot." The sanctification of the Lord is placed in the eastern gate, the gate of chariots, that we may be deemed perfect when we say to the Lord, "The chariot of God is tens of thousands of joyful people, for the Lord is among them." In this way, the building that is established on the foundation of Christ, about which the apostle also said, "as a wise architect, I laid a foundation," will never be destroyed but will remain forever.
Those who accept the reign of the Messiah for one thousand years in the land of Judea—clearly the Jews and our Judaizers—strive to claim and to demonstrate that the sanctuary of the Lord, that is, the temple, must be maintained forever in one location, specifically that of the tower of Hananel and the corner gate and the hill Gareb and Goah and the entire valley of corpses and ashes and the river Kidron and the corner of the eastern Gate of Horses. Because they are unable to show that it was completed after their captivity in the times of Zerubbabel and Ezra, they pass to the times of the Messiah, whom they say is coming at the consummation of the world, so that a golden and bejeweled Jerusalem can descend, according to the Apocalypse of John, and be built within this space of land, that is, beginning at one place and ending at another. And they receive this whiff of a suspicion that the foundation of the city is to be laid from the tower at Anathoth, which today is called Jeremiah's and is separated from Jerusalem by three thousand [sic], to the river Kidron, where there is a garden in which Judas the traitor betrayed the Savior, as written in the Gospel."We are about to read in what follows," they say, "that Hanamel the son of Shallum was Jeremiah's uncle and that Jeremiah bought Hanamel's field and that this is the tower of Hanamel." Yet, they did not know the truth of the Hebrew, for this is what is written: "from the tower of Hananel," with an n clearly as the fifth letter, whereas the name in the other phrase has an m as the fifth letter: "Behold, Hanamel, son of Shallum, your uncle, will come to you."
Dictionary and topics
Fenced cities — There were in Palestine (1) cities, (2) unwalled villages, and (3) villages with castles or towers (1 Chr. 27:25). Cities, so called, had walls, and were thus fenced. The fortifications consisted of…
Hananeel — God has graciously given, a tower in the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 3:1; 12:39). It is mentioned also in Jer. 31:38; Zech. 14:10.
Jerusalem — Called also Salem, Ariel, Jebus, the “city of God,” the “holy city;” by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning “the holy;” once “the city of Judah” (2 Chr. 25:28). This name is in the original in the…
Hananeel · Name of a tower forming part of the wall of — Name of a tower forming part of the wall of
Tower · Of Hananeel — Of Hananeel
Towers · Mentioned in scripture: Hananeel — Mentioned in scripture: Hananeel
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
The new covenant. - Jer 31:31. "Behold, days are coming, saith Jahveh, when I will make with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; Jer 31:32. Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I laid hold of their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of mine they broke, though I had married them to myself, saith Jahveh; Jer 31:33. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jahveh: I will put my law within them, and on their heart will I write it; and I will become to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. Jer 31:34. And they shall no more teach every man his neighbour an…
The Lord revealed his plan for Jerusalem to be rebuilt. The Tower of Hananel stood at the northeast corner of the old city, while the Corner Gate had been at the northwest corner (2 Kgs 14:13; 2 Chr 26:9).
Rashi on Jeremiah 31:37
If the heavens... will be measured How much is their altitude.
I too will reject...Israel That is to say that just as they can neither be measured nor fathomed so will Israel not be rejected because of all that they sinned.
Invoking the Lord and Savior "who has the key of David, who opens and no one closes, who closes and no one opens," … let us approach the edifice of the city to which the prophetic words were directed: "Glorious things are said of you, O city of God," and "the river's flow delights the City of God." Thus, the church is built from the tower "of obedience" or "grace" or "the gifts of God"—for this is what Hananel means—to the corner gate. Even though the church may appear to have a sublime beginning, we are unable to possess the straight line of truth as long as we are in the flesh, but we stand on a corner with broken lines, where the measuring line goes out beyond the corner gate to the hill Gareb, which, in our language, is translated either "sojourn" or "itch," to teach us that we are foreigners and wanderers with ears itching to provide easy agreement to the worst of new doctrines.And "it will go around Goah," it says, which the Septuagint translates as "a circuit around chosen stones," who wish to be on the face of the earth and are bound together by the cornerstone, with the apostle Peter saying, "like living stones, be built into a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ." It continues, "And it goes around the entire valley of Phagarim," which means "ruins" and "ashes," so that even though we appear to be in the hills, we may always yet fear the ruins and consider the ashes and say penance with David: "I ate ashes like bread and mixed tears into my drink." Hence, to the sleeping it is said, "Is it not true that one who falls rises again, says the Lord?" It also says "the entire Sademoth," which we translate as the "region of death," from sade, which means "region," and moth, which means "death." But Aquila translates it "suburban," or "field" and "country." But the "region of death" is the region of sinners and "suburban" the region of pleasures, which continues all the way to the river Kidron, where the Lord was betrayed, which is translated "darkness." See how many places the church has and how the apostolic word that it is to be "without spot or wrinkle" is reserved for the future in heaven. You heard about the corner, you heard about the itchy ears, you heard about the ruins and the ashes and the region of death and the darkness, and still you glory in your virtue and your…
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
