Teks -- Jeremiah 10:22 (NET)

10:22 Listen! News is coming even now. The rumble of a great army is heard approaching from a land in the north. It is coming to turn the towns of Judah into rubble, places where only jackals live.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jer 10:22 - Noise

Rumour, report.

JFB: Jer 10:22 - bruit

Rumor of invasion. The antithesis is between the voice of God in His prophets to whom they turned a deaf ear, and the cry of the enemy, a new teacher, whom they must hear [CALVIN].

JFB: Jer 10:22 - north country

Babylon (Jer 1:15).

Clarke: Jer 10:22 - The noise of the bruit is come

The noise of the bruit is come - How this silly French word bruit, which signifies noise, got in here, I cannot imagine. The simple translation is this: "The voice of the report! behold, it is come; yea, great commotion from the land of the north; (Chaldea); to make the cities of Judea a desolation, a habitation of wild beasts."That is, the report we had heard of the projected invasion of Judea by Nebuchadnezzar is confirmed. He has entered the land; the Chaldeans are at the doors, and the total desolation of Judea is their sole object.

Calvin: Jer 10:22 - The voice of rumor,

Jeremiah shews in this verse that prophetic doctrine was useless to an obstinate people; for there is a contrast, no doubt, to be understood betweenthe voice of God, which had constantly resounded in Judea, and the tumultuous clamours of enemies; for the prophets, one after another, had reproved the people, but without effect. Now, then, as they were deaf to God’s voice, the Prophet declares that new teachers were now come who would address them in another way, and in an unusual manner. The voice then of rumor is heard; “ye would not hear me and other servants of God; but a voice of rumor comes from the north: the Chaldeans shall be your teachers; I send you to their school, since I have spent my labor for many years in vain, as all those have done who before me diligently sought to lead you to the right way, whom God employed, and who faithfully endeavored to secure your safety; but they were no more attended to than I am, and therefore they ceased to teach you. I now turn you over to the Chaldeans; they shall teach you.” This is the simple meaning.

The voice of rumor, he says, or literally, of hearing, שמועה , shimuoe, comes; that is, the voice which shall be heard, for they had closed their ears to the prophetic warnings; and a great tumult or commotion from the land of the north We now then see that the Chaldeans are set in opposition to the prophets, who had labored in vain among the Jews; as though Jeremiah had said that the Jews would, willing or unwilling, be made to attend to this tumultuous noise; and he says that it would be for the purpose of turning the cities of Judah to desolation and an habitation of dragons ²¹ It follows —

TSK: Jer 10:22 - the noise // a den

the noise : Jer 1:15, Jer 4:6, Jer 5:15, Jer 6:1, Jer 6:22; Hab 1:6-9

a den : Jer 9:11; Mal 1:3

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jer 10:22 - The north country // A den of dragons

The prophet had divers times sounded this alarm in their ears, but to very little purpose; his words seemed but as idle tales, they believed him not: he speaks of it partly as one conceiving what dreadful commotions and concussions would be upon the land by the clattering of arms, prancings and neighings of horses, sounding of trumpets, and rattling of chariots, making as it were the earth to shake under them, when that vast army of the Chaldeans should furiously break in upon them. Partly, insinuating an antithesis, opposing the voice of God’ s prophets, that had so often spoken of this, but they would not hear, against this dreadful noise, which they should not but hear, and see, and feel too. So that they that would not learn of God’ s prophets shall be sent to harder masters, that shall teach them in a manner as Gideon did the men of Succoth, Jud 8:16 .

The north country: see Jer 1:14 5:15 .

A den of dragons See Poole "Jer 9:11"

Haydock: Jer 10:22 - North // Dragons. Tannim

North. He has announced this conqueror eight times. ---

Dragons. Tannim means "huge reptiles," whether of sea or land. (Calmet)

Gill: Jer 10:22 - Behold the noise of the bruit is come // to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons

Behold the noise of the bruit is come,.... Or, "the voice of hearing" ^c; that is, the voice heard; the report that was made that the king of Babylon had invaded the land, and was coming up to besiege Jerusalem: "and a great commotion out of the north country"; a large army from Babylon, which lay north of Judea, which came with great noise, and caused a great trembling and shaking among the inhabitants of the land whither they were coming:

to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons; this shows that the whole paragraph is to be understood of the Jewish nation, and of their destruction. See Gill on Jer 9:11.