Jeremiah 32:29

29 "The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and ¹set this city on fire and burn it, with the ²houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

Jeremiah 32:29 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 32:29

And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come,
&c.] Or rather "shall enter", as Aquila renders it; for they were come to it already, and were fighting against it, battering the walls, and throwing in their arrows, and putting to the sword such as came out, or were within their reach: and set fire on this city;
as they did, ( Jeremiah 39:8 ) ; and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered
incense unto Baal;
or "especially the houses" ^F7, or "even the houses"; the houses particularly mentioned in the history of the destruction as burnt; and which, very probably, are here intended; besides the Lord's house, and all the houses in Jerusalem, were the king's house, and the houses of the great men or princes; and which, Kimchi thinks, were higher than others; on which therefore they burnt incense to Baal; wherefore it was a just retaliation, upon them that they should be burnt with fire: and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to
anger;
to other gods besides the true God; to strange gods, and to other gods besides Baal; which was done as if they really designed to provoke the Lord; as if they had it in view to affront him; and, if they had, they could not have taken a more effectual method; though this is to be understood, not intentionally, but eventually; not what was their design, though it looked like it, but what was the effect of their idolatry.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (Mytbh taw) "imprimis domos", Schmidt; "nempe domos", Piscator.

Jeremiah 32:29 In-Context

27 "Behold, I am the LORD , the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for Me?"

28 Therefore thus says the LORD , "Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

29 "The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

30 "Indeed the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been doing only evil in My sight from their youth; for the sons of Israel have been only provoking Me to anger by the work of their hands," declares the LORD .

31 "Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face,

Cross References

• 1. 2 Chronicles 36:19; Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 37:8, 10; Jeremiah 39:8
• 2. Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 44:17-19, 25; Jeremiah 52:13