Jeremiah 8
Appearance
Jeremiah 8 | |
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Book | Book of Jeremiah |
Category | Nevi'im |
Christian Bible part | Old Testament |
Order in the Christian part | 24 |
Jeremiah 8 is the eighth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, and is a part of the Books of the Prophets.[1][2]
Text
- The original text is written in Hebrew language.
- This chapter is divided into 22 verses.
Textual versions
Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:
- Masoretic Text (10th century)
- Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)[3][4][5]
- 4QJera (4Q70): extant: verses 1‑3, 5‑12, 18‑19
- 4QJerc (4Q72): extant: verses 1‑3, 21‑22
Ancient translations in Koine Greek:
- Septuagint (3rd century BC)
- Theodotion version (~AD 180)
Structure
NKJV groups this chapter into:
- Jeremiah 8:1–3 = Judgment on Obscene Religion (continued from Jeremiah 7:28–34)
- Jeremiah 8:4–17 = The Peril of False Teaching
- Jeremiah 8:18–22 = The Prophet Mourns for the People
Verse 1
- “At that time,” says the Lord, “they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves.[6]
Cross reference: Ezekiel 6:5
- Josephus noted that Hyrcanus and Herod broke into the sepulchre of David to take the treasures.[7]
Verse 22
- Is there no balm in Gilead,
- Is there no physician there?
- Why then is there no recovery
- For the health of the daughter of my people? (NKJV)[8]
- "Balm in Gilead" : Storax balsam, medicinal resin produced in north Transjordan (Jeremiah 46:11).[9] Gilead region is known for this balsam ointment (Genesis 37:25).[10]
See also
- Related Bible parts: Isaiah 38, Jeremiah 7, Ezekiel 6
Notes and references
- ^ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
- ^ Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume: VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
- ^ Dead sea scrolls - Jeremiah
- ^ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 38 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ Ulrich 2010, p. 559-561.
- ^ Jeremiah 8:1
- ^ Josephus, Antiquitates. vii. 15. 3. "buried...a thousand and three hundred years afterward Hyrcanus the high priest, when he was besieged by Antiochus, that was called the Pious, the son of Demetrius, and was desirous of giving him money to get him to raise the siege and draw off his army, and having no other method of compassing the money, opened one room of David's sepulcher, and took out three thousand talents, and gave part of that sum to Antiochus; and by this means caused the siege to be raised, ..., after him, and that many years, Herod the king opened another room, and took away a great deal of money, and yet neither of them came at the coffins of the kings themselves, for their bodies were buried under the earth so artfully, that they did not appear to even those that entered into their monuments."
- ^ Jeremiah 8:22
- ^ 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. 1090-1092 Hebrew Bible. ISBN 978-0195288810
- ^ The Nelson Study Bible 1997, p. 1241.
Bibliography
- Ulrich, Eugene, ed. (2010). The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants. Brill.
- The Nelson Study Bible. Thomas Nelson, Inc. 1997. ISBN 9780840715999.