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This last section of Jeremiah is similar to the end of Isaiah\u2019s book. The prophet now turns to the surrounding nations and foretells of their destruction for assisting in Israel and Judah\u2019s demise.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

First up is old foe Egypt. Egypt played a starring role in Judah\u2019s downfall at the start of Jeremiah\u2019s career with the death of Josiah. After that, the fading great empire played mostly a secondary role to the much stronger, ascendant Babylonians. The Egyptians did provide a nice respite for Jerusalem while briefly distracting the Babylonians. In his diatribe against Egypt, Jeremiah turns to well used metaphors that symbolize Egypt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Who is this that rises like the Nile, like streams whose waters surge? It is Egypt that rises like the Nile, like streams whose waters surge, that said, \u201cI will rise, I will cover the earth, I will wipe out towns and those who dwell in them\u201d (verses 7-8).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Egypt is best-known for the Nile. Egypt thinks it will rise up and cover the earth just like the Nile does when it is flooded. The problem is there is another river that is more powerful, the Euphrates: \u201cThe swift cannot get away, The warrior cannot escape.\u00a0 In the north, by the river Euphrates, They stagger and fall\u201d (verse 6).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This parallel of a strong Egyptian symbol being felled by a symbol of the North is used later as well. Instead of the Nile, it is the Egyptian cows bitten by a swarm of flies from the North: \u201cEgypt is a handsome heifer\u2014 A gadfly from the north is coming, coming!\u201d (verse 20). Jeremiah also references two Exodus symbols of Egyptian embarrassment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

She shall rustle away like a snake\u00a0 As they come marching in force; They shall come against her with axes, Like hewers of wood (verse 22).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The snake here may be a reference to Moses\u2019s staff that turned into a snake and devoured the snakes\/staffs of the Egyptian wizards. The invading armies of the north are also referred to as one of the plagues that befell Egypt:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They shall cut down her forest \u2014declares GOD \u2014 Though it cannot be measured; For they are more numerous than locusts, And cannot be counted (verse 23).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Nile, a cow, a snake, and locusts. Jeremiah opens up his Egypthesaurus to declare doom on the ancient enemy of Israel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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A wonderful array of battleground orders are recorded in Jeremiah 46:3,4, and 9, reminiscent of the Egyptian cavalry just prior to their attacking the Israelites at the Red Sea (Ex. 15:9). But the exclamations are once again in a losing cause, as the Egyptians, led by Pharaoh Neco II are militarily defeated by the Babylonians (46:13-26.)\u00a0 The prophet Jeremiah interprets this terrible defeat as God\u2019s vengeance on the Egyptians for having killed King Josiah several years previously: \u201cBut that day shall be for the Lord GOD of Hosts a day when He exacts retribution from His foes\u201d (verse 10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Josiah led the kingdom of Judah, and unlike his predecessors, as well as those who succeeded him, did everything according to divine instructions. The fact that he was only 8 when he assumed the throne (II Kings 22:1) may have made him that much more susceptible and open to the positive influences of his advisors than other Jewish kings, particularly when a scroll\u00a0 was discovered during his tenure, and he dutifully applied its dictates to the subjects of his realm.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Tanach, after recounting all of the virtuous things that Josiah achieved over the course of his rule, objectively offers high praise:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There was no king like him before who turned back to the LORD with all his heart and soul and might, in full accord with the Teaching of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him (ibid. 23:25).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One wonders if God, despite Josiah\u2019s sterling track record, had determined that in the 31<\/span>st<\/span> year of his reign, someone else should be king, and that this would provide Him with an excuse to eventually cause the Babylonians to move against Pharaoh Neco? According to another biblical text, the Egyptian king even warned Josiah not to impede his army\u2019s progress by opposing them, because the Egyptians were on \u201ca mission from God\u201d:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(Neco<\/span>) sent messengers to him, saying, \u201cWhat have I to do with you, king of Judah? I do not march against you this day but against the kingdom that wars with me, and it is God\u2019s will that I hurry. Refrain, then, from interfering with God, who is with me, that He not destroy you. But Josiah would not let him alone; instead, he donned (his armor)<\/span>-<\/span> to fight him, heedless of Neco\u2019s words from the mouth of God; and he came to fight in the plain of Megiddo (II Chron. 35:21-2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Is it possible that after his many achievements which were \u201c<\/span>leshem shamayim<\/span><\/em>\u201d (\u201cfor the sake of Heaven\u201d), Josiah simply couldn\u2019t imagine that a king of an enemy nation would be carrying out God\u2019s will? Or was he, like Og before him (Numbers 21:33-50,) simply not ready to trust any army passing so close to his border?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cThe hills are alive\u201d, sang Julie Andrews in the classic <\/span>Sounds of Music<\/span><\/i>, and it turns out, they are, and so think our sages on several occasions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Jeremiah in earlier chapters speaks to the mountains, we might understand that to mean the dwellers of that area, but then Ezekiel (coming up on 929) is clearly told, \u201c<\/span>O mortal, turn your face toward the mountains of Israel and prophesy to them and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord\u201d\u2026 (6:2-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We remember the story about the mountains who \u201cfought\u201d about which one will the Torah be given on. In Tractate Megilla (29a) we\u2019re told that when God wanted to give the Torah, Mount Tabor came and asked that the Torah be given on him. That request showed that he is not as humble as needed to be the Torah\u2019s mountain, and he was therefore rejected. The same sentiment was expressed towards the other mountains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, this desire to have the Torah did not go completely unanswered. Based on a verse from this chapter, <\/span>\u201c...As surely as Tabor is among the mountains And Carmel is by the sea, So shall this come to pass\u201d (46:18), it is taught that \u201cIn the future, the synagogues and the study halls in Babylonia will be transported and reestablished in Eretz Yisrael.\u201d There is a tradition that because these mountains, Tabor and Carmel, came to Sinai at the giving of the Torah and demanded that the Torah should be given upon them, even though that showed a lack of humility, it showed desire for Torah. Further, the Gemara continues: \u201cJust as Tabor and Carmel, which came only momentarily to study Torah, were relocated and established in Eretz Yisrael in reward for their actions, all the more so should the synagogues and study halls in Babylonia, in which the Torah is read and disseminated, be relocated to Eretz Yisrael.''<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Carmel\u2019s name comes from its vineyards (<\/span>kerem-el<\/span><\/i>, God\u2019s vineyard). Nowadays it\u2019s known as <\/span>hahar hayarok tamid<\/span><\/i>, the \u201calways green mountain\u201d. It is unique among the mountains and hills of Israel that it kisses the sea. In Tractate Shabbat 35:a we\u2019re told that if one wants to see Miriam\u2019s well, they should go to the top of Mount Carmel. The Maharal explains that Miriam\u2019s role was to awaken the natural holiness which flows from the earth upward, just like the well\u2019s water, springing from within the depth of the earth. Elijah too, called the Ba\u2019al prophets to the Carmel and there, demonstrated God\u2019s greatness to all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On Shabbat morning, between early sunlight and rain cloud, there is a beautiful rainbow over the Carmel Mountains. The dark green background is dotted with every possible color, as the spring flowers continue to bloom in red, orange, yellow, pink, purple, yellow, blue and even white.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, the \u201chills are alive\u201d, hopefully reminding us that better days are yet to come, when <\/span>this too, shall come to pass.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Jeremiah 46 marks the beginning of a series of prophecies about the downfall of the nations that had a hand in Israel\u2019s destruction. Who are these prophecies for? Are they directed to the doomed nations themselves, or to Israel? Rabbi Menachem Leibtag proposes, as do many of our sages, that it is the latter. The intent of these prophecies, says Rabbi Leibtag, is to impact the Jewish people\u2019s relationship with God by informing how we see His hand in history.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the beginning of these prophecies Jeremiah says, \u201cThat day will be a day of revenge for my Lord, a day of vengeance to avenge Himself of His enemies (46:10).\u201d Revenge. Vengeance. Avenge. These are difficult terms to reconcile with a God who commanded us \u201cDon\u2019t take vengeance (Leviticus 19:18).\u201d We\u2019re supposed to fashion ourselves in the image of God, but isn\u2019t the essence of vengeance simply reflecting back the image of our enemies? It all seems very contradictory.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The modern notion of vengeance is about giving as good as we get and getting even. But in the context of considering God as vengeful, what if we define vengeance not as the common human trait of needing to settle a score, but rather through a lens of divine justice. In that case we are compelled to consider that God, the ultimate source of true justice, has a higher intent than score-settling.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Aron Moss explains that if we truly understand God as the ultimate judge, and his \u201cvengeance\u201d as divine justice, then God has effectively liberated us from our own need to seek revenge. \u201c<\/span>It is precisely G\u2011d's vengefulness that enables humans to let go of the desire for revenge. We know there is a true Judge, and He will do justice. So, we humans can leave the vengeance to Him, and get on with living.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is not to say that we should stand idly by and be trampled. In Deuteronomy 22:26 we are commanded, \"If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first.\" There are conditions under which we must take action, but revenge is not one of them. Our belief that the world is ultimately in God\u2019s hands extends to our national experience, at the hands of our neighbors and nations of the world, from biblical times through today. There is a plan, God\u2019s on it, and vengeance is His providence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter begins a series of Jeremiah\u2019s oracles against foreign nations (46-49 are particularly aimed at the nations surrounding Judah). Our chapter is entirely devoted to an oracle against Egypt. Jeremiah begins by directing his prophecy in a very specific way: \u201cConcerning Egypt, about the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was at the river Euphrates near Carchemish, and which was defeated by King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, in the fourth year of King Jehoiakim son of Josiah of Judah\u201d (46:2). Jeremiah goes on to describe the Battle of Carchemish in dramatic poetry (verses 3-12). This seminal military event, which can be dated to about 605 BCE, is also described in a cuneiform tablet housed in the British Museum (BM 21946), part of what is known as the \u201cNebuchadnezzar Chronicle.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This text complements Jeremiah\u2019s description of the battle by claiming that Nebuchadnezzar (Nebuchadrezzar here and elsewhere) \"crossed the river to go against the Egyptian army which lay in Carchemish. They fought with each other and the Egyptian army withdrew before him. He accomplished their defeat and beat them to non-existence\u2026\u201d. Jeremiah goes on to prophecy Nebuchadrezzar\u2019s unsuccessful attempts to invade and conquer Egypt (apparently in 601 BCE and again in 568 BCE, see also Jeremiah 43:8-13, Ezekiel 29:19-20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Extra-biblical sources add to what we know of Pharaoh Neco, who ruled Egypt from 610-595 BCE in the 26<\/span>th<\/span> dynasty whose capital was the city of Sais, in the Western Nile Delta. The 5<\/span>th<\/span> century BCE Greek historian, Herodotus (in his <\/span>Histories <\/span><\/i>II 158) relates that Neco began the construction of a forerunner to the modern Suez Canal. But this project was suspended when Neco began preparations for war. However, he is credited by Herodotus (<\/span>Histories <\/span><\/i>IV 42) with sending an expedition that set out from the Red Sea and successfully rounded the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, returning to Egypt by way of the \u201cPillars of Hercules\u201d (the Strait of Gibraltar). Josephus (Antiquities X 5.1) relates that on his way to do battle at the Euphrates, Neco fought and killed the Judean king Josiah, who was blocking Neco\u2019s advance at Megiddo (see II Kings 23:29, compare II Chronicles 35:20-25). On his way back to Egypt, in Jerusalem, Neco deposed the young newly crowned king of Judah, Jehoahaz, and fined the Land a hundred talents of silver and a talent (about 75 lbs.) of gold. Neco replaced Jehoahaz with his brother, Eliakim, whom he renamed Jehoiakim (see II Chronicles 36:1-4).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jewish tradition (see Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews, \u201cThe Throne of Solomon\u201d) relates that Pharaoh Neco was one of those rulers who tried unsuccessfully to ascend and sit in the marvelous throne of King Solomon. When Neco tried to do so he was injured by one of the throne\u2019s mechanical lions resulting in his being referred to in Hebrew as <\/span>Neco <\/span><\/i>\u2013 i.e. \u201cthe Lame.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The backdrop for this prophecy was the battle in 605 BCE at Carchemish (on the Euphrates, near today\u2019s Turkish-Syrian border) that pitted the failing Assyrian Empire\u2014allied with Pharaoh Necho of Egypt\u2014against the up and coming Babylonians\u2014allied with Persia and Medea. If this sounds at all familiar, 2 Kings 23:29, and, in somewhat greater detail, 2 Chronicles 35: 20 ff., report that Josiah intercepted Pharaoh Necho at Megiddo and was slain there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Egyptian loss was the subject of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy, which was focused on their military preparations (2 ff.) and their subsequent flight from the field of battle (5 ff.). The upshot was that the Jews who had sought refuge in Egypt were now exposed to the danger of a Babylonian counterattack (13 ff.), just as Jeremiah had prophesied earlier (see Chapters 42, 44). In fear of this assault, they regretted their escape to Egypt and voiced an anxiety-ridden desire to \u201creturn to our people, to the land of our birth, because of the <\/span>cherev hayonah<\/span><\/em>\u201d (16). Just what is meant by those last two words is subject to debate.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rashi, citing the Aramaic Targum, associated <\/span>yonah<\/span><\/em> with <\/span>yayin<\/span><\/em>, wine, and his student, Yosef Kara, elaborated on this interpretation, writing, \u201cbecause of the sword of Nebuchadnezzar that was as satiated with the blood of his enemies as a drunkard is intoxicated by wine.\u201d Radak, however, preferred a more philologically sound interpretation, taking <\/span>yonah<\/span><\/em> from a verbal root (either A-N-H or Y-N-H) meaning to oppress. It should be noted that three of the four appearances of <\/span>yonah<\/span><\/em> in Tanakh\u2014other than to signify a dove\u2014occur in Jeremiah, and the fourth is in his contemporary, Zephaniah, suggesting that it was a term whose particular usage was current at that time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shadal* agreed with Radak\u2019s interpretation, but first cited another interpretation that he rejected: \u201cR. Azariah [de Rossi; Italy 16<\/span>th<\/span> century] said it refers to the Babylonian and Assyrian empires that had a dove [Hebrew: <\/span>yonah<\/span><\/em>] on their flags.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction<\/span><\/a> in Jeremiah chapter 1.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":72465,"alt":"","title":"jer46-sword-dove","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","width":440,"height":310,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove-300x211.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":211,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","medium_large-width":440,"medium_large-height":310,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","large-width":440,"large-height":310,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","1536x1536-width":440,"1536x1536-height":310,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","2048x2048-width":440,"2048x2048-height":310,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","post_full_size-width":440,"post_full_size-height":310,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","home_baner-width":440,"home_baner-height":310}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The Sword of the Dove?","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"No, it\u2019s a different sword entirely","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":72465,"alt":"","title":"jer46-sword-dove","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","width":440,"height":310,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove-300x211.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":211,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","medium_large-width":440,"medium_large-height":310,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","large-width":440,"large-height":310,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","1536x1536-width":440,"1536x1536-height":310,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","2048x2048-width":440,"2048x2048-height":310,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","post_full_size-width":440,"post_full_size-height":310,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/jer46-sword-dove.jpg","home_baner-width":440,"home_baner-height":310}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"46","chapter_main_number":"446","date":"20270516","wall_id":"446"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":9,"id":"72458","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Even You Heroes Have Been Swept Away ","post_title":"Even Your Heroes Have Been Swept Away","slug":"even-you-heroes-have-been-swept-away","old_id":"72458","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. 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46:15 \u201cWhy are your heroes swept away? They do not stand, for the LORD thrust them down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew <\/span>\u2018abirim<\/span><\/i> can mean \u201cbulls,\u201d \u201csteeds\u201d (its sense in the Song of Deborah, Judges 5, and here in 47:3), or, because of the association of both animals with physical strength, something like \u201cpowerful warriors.\u201d This last sense seems the most likely here especially because of the reference to not standing and being pushed down in the next line. Lundbom thinks the term refers to Apis, the Egyptian bull god, which is ingenious but not persuasive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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\u201cFear\u201d<\/a> by Steven Dansky: Jewish sources that discuss being scared.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u201cEgypt and Sea Monsters\u201d<\/a> by Tali Adler: Could Egypt have more terrors than those we\u2019re\u00a0familiar with?\u00a0<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Jeremiah 46","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"46","chapter_main_number":"446","date":"20270516","wall_id":"446"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":12,"id":"72460","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Jeremiah 46 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Jeremiah 46","slug":"points-to-ponder-jeremiah-46","old_id":"72460","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"446","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. Prophecies to the nations<\/em>. Jeremiah is not alone. Isaiah, Ezekiel, Amos, Zephaniah and Zechariah have sections that are prophecies to the other nations.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Both Egyptian and Israelite backgrounds.<\/em> In the chapter, you\u2019ll come across names and places from Egypt: Migdol, Noph and Tahpanhes, Amon from No, the Nile. But also references to the land of Israel: \u201cAs surely as Tabor is among the mountains And Carmel is by the sea\u201d (v. 18). Jeremiah is familiar with both worlds.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Such a handsome heifer!<\/em> (verse 20). The winner of the beauty contest is surely Egypt. Anyone familiar with the remnants of the Pharaonic culture can understand why she is the beauty queen. But why a heifer? Perhaps because of the calm or serenity that characterized them, before the prophecy would be fulfilled that would destroy it.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Jeremiah 46","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Jeremiah","chapter":"46","chapter_main_number":"446","date":"20270516","wall_id":"446"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"link_teaser":"","listen_link":"","other_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/72448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}