Jeremiah 16

Jeremiah 16 is the sixteenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. In the first part of this chapter (verses 1 to 9), Jeremiah is instructed to adopt a lifestyle which will serve as a "symbolic enactment of God's word",[1] comparable to the instructions given to other prophets: see Hosea 1:2–9, Isaiah 8:3–4 and Ezekiel 24:15–24.

Jeremiah 16
Book of Jeremiah in Hebrew Bible, MS. Sassoon 1053, images 283–315.
BookBook of Jeremiah
Hebrew Bible partNevi'im
Order in the Hebrew part6
CategoryLatter Prophets
Christian Bible partOld Testament
Order in the Christian part24

Text

The original text of this chapter is written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 21 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis (895), the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets (916), Aleppo Codex (10th century), Codex Leningradensis (1008).[2]

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus (B; B; 4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (S; BHK: S; 4th century), Codex Alexandrinus (A; A; 5th century) and Codex Marchalianus (Q; Q; 6th century).[3]

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex.[4] Jeremiah 16 is a part of the Sixth prophecy (Jeremiah 14-17) in the section of Prophecies of Destruction (Jeremiah 1-25). {P}: open parashah; {S}: closed parashah.

{S} 16:1–2 {S} 16:3–4 {S} 16:5–8 {P} 16:9–13 {P} 16:14-5 {P} 16:16–18 {P} 16:19–21 {S}

Verse 2
"You shall not take a wife, nor shall you have sons or daughters in this place."[5]

According to Reformation theologian John Calvin, "the prohibition to marry was full of meaning; it was to shew that the people were wholly given up to destruction".[6]

Verse 3
For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning their mothers who bore them and their fathers who begot them in this land:[7]

Verse 4
... they shall not be lamented nor shall they be buried.[8]

Repeated in verse 6:

They shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for them.[9]

Verse 5
"Do not enter the house of mourning, nor go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away My peace from this people", says the Lord.[10]

Similarly, the prophet Ezekiel is instructed not to mourn when his own wife dies.[11]

See also

References
  1. The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed. Michael D. Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol A. Newsom, Editors. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2007. p. 1103-1105 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
  2. Würthwein 1995, pp. 35–37.
  3. Würthwein 1995, pp. 73–74.
  4. As reflected in the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English.
  5. Jeremiah 16:2 NKJV
  6. Calvin, J., Commentary on Jeremiah 16, accessed 26 January 2019
  7. Jeremiah 16:3 NKJV
  8. Jeremiah 16:4 NKJV
  9. Jeremiah 16:6 NKJV
  10. Jeremiah 16:5 NKJV
  11. Ezekiel 24:16–18

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