Jeremiah 11:23

23 Only a few people will be left alive. I will judge the men of Anathoth. I will destroy them when the time to punish them comes."

Jeremiah 11:23 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 11:23

And there shall be no remnant of them
And thus the measure they meted out to the prophet was measured to them; they devised to destroy him root and branch, the tree with its fruit; and now none shall be left of them; such who escaped the sword and the famine should be carried captive, as they were; for though there were none left in Anathoth, there were some preserved alive, and were removed into Babylon; since, at the return from thence, the men of Anathoth were a hundred twenty and eight, ( Nehemiah 7:27 ) : for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their
visitation;
or, "in the year of their visitation" ^F19; that is, of the visitation of their sins, as the Targum; which was the year of the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem, and was in the nineteenth of Nebuchadnezzar, ( Jeremiah 52:12 ) and this was not a chance matter, but what was fixed and determined by the Lord.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (Mtdqp tnv) (en eniautw episkeqewv autwn) , Sept. "anno visitationis eorum", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Schmidt.

Jeremiah 11:23 In-Context

21 The LORD says, "Jeremiah, here is what I am telling you about the men of Anathoth. They want to kill you. They are saying, 'Don't prophesy in the LORD's name. If you do, we will kill you with our own hands.' "

22 So the LORD who rules over all says, "I will punish them. Their young men will be killed with swords. Their sons and daughters will die of hunger.

23 Only a few people will be left alive. I will judge the men of Anathoth. I will destroy them when the time to punish them comes."