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Sagradas Escrituras
Jeremías 17:1
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El pecado de Judá está escrito con cincel de hierro, con punta de diamante está grabado sobre la tabla de su corazón y en los cuernos de sus altares.
EL pecado de Jud� escrito est� con cincel de hierro, y con punta de diamante: esculpido est� en la tabla de su coraz�n, y en los lados de vuestros altares;
El pecado de Jud� escrito est� con cincel de hierro y con punta de diamante; esculpido est� en la tabla de su coraz�n, y en los lados de vuestros altares;
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
written: Job 19:23, Job 19:24
point: Heb. nail
graven: Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 7:3, 2 Corinthians 3:3
and upon: Leviticus 4:17, Leviticus 4:18, Leviticus 4:25, Hosea 12:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 18:21 - see Exodus 28:18 - diamond 1 Kings 16:33 - made a grove Jeremiah 2:22 - yet thine iniquity Ezekiel 14:3 - these men Amos 8:7 - I will Luke 1:63 - a
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron,.... Or an iron tool, such as engravers use in working on hard matter:
[and] with the point of a diamond; such as glaziers use in cutting their glass; though this is not the word used for a diamond in
Exodus 28:18, this word is elsewhere translated an adamant, Ezekiel 3:9. Bothart h takes it to be the smiris, which jewellers use in polishing their gems. Jarchi makes mention of a Midrash, or exposition, which explains the iron pen of Jeremiah, and the point of the adamant, or diamond, of Ezekiel, because of what is said of them, Jeremiah 1:18. Kimchi thinks the word "shamir", rendered "diamond", is expressive of the subject matter on which their sin is said to be written, and not of the instrument with which; and then it is to be read thus,
"the sin of Judah is written with an iron pen (with an iron claw, or nail, of which mention is made in some Jewish writings) upon "shamir", or an adamant stone;''
which is no other than their stony heart, as it follows:
it is graven upon the table of their heart; where it is so fixed that it cannot be rooted out, and will never be forgotten by them, but always remembered and desired; for which they have the strongest affections, having a place, and having made deep impressions there: or this may denote the evidence of it in their own consciences, which bore witness to it, and which they could not deny:
and upon the horns of your altars; on which the names of their idols were engraven or inscribed, Acts 17:23, so that their idolatry was notorious; their consciences within, and their altars without, were testimonies of it and besides, the blood of the sacrifices was poured upon the horns of the altar, Leviticus 4:7 and which, as it was done at the offering of sacrifices appointed of God, so very probably at the offering of sacrifices to idols, and which made their sin notorious; yea, even all the sacrifices of the ceremonial law were a standing testimony of their being sinners, and carried in them a confession of sin, and that they were deserving of death, and so were a handwriting against them; for there is no need to limit the sin of Judah here to idolatry, but it may include all their sins; and so the Targum expresses it in the plural number,
"the sins of Judah;''
though, if any particular sin is intended, it seems to be idolatry, by what follows.
h Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 6. c. 11, col. 842. of which stone, see Dioseorides, Hesychius, & Stephanus in ib.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This section Jeremiah 17:1-4 is inseparably connected with the preceding. Judah’s sin had been described Jeremiah 16:19 as one of which the very Gentiles will become ashamed. and for which she will shortly be punished by, an intervention of God’s hand more marked than anything in her previous history. Jeremiah now dwells upon the indelible nature of her sin.
A pen of iron - i. e., an iron chisel for cutting inscriptions upon tables of stone.
The point of a diamond - The ancients were well acquainted with the cutting powers of the diamond.
Altars - Not Yahweh’s one altar, but the many altars which the Jews had set up to Baalim Jeremiah 11:13. Though Josiah had purged the land of these, yet in the eleven years of Jehoiakim’s reign they had multiplied again, and were the external proofs of Judah’s idolatry, as the table of her heart was the internal witness.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XVII
This chapter begins with setting forth the very strong bias
which the people of Judah had to idolatry, with the fatal
consequences, 1-4.
The happiness of the man that trusted in Jehovah is then
beautifully contrasted with the opposite character, 5-8.
God alone knows the deceitfulness and wretchedness of the heart
of man, 9, 10.
The comparison of a bird's hatching the eggs of another of a
different species, which will soon forsake her, is highly
expressive of the vanity of ill-acquired riches, which often
disappoint the owner, 11.
The prophet continues the same subject in his own person,
appeals to God for his sincerity, and prays that the evil
intended him by his enemies may revert on their own heads,
12-18.
The remaining part of the chapter is a distinct prophecy
relating to the due observance of the Sabbath, enforced both by
promises and threatenings, 19-27.
NOTES ON CHAP. XVII
Verse Jeremiah 17:1. The sin of Judah — Idolatry.
Is written with a pen of iron — It is deeply and indelibly written in their heart, and shall be as indelibly written in their punishment. Writing with the point of a diamond must refer to glass, or some vitrified substance, as it is distinguished here from engraving with a steel burine, or graver. Their altars show what the deities are which they worship. There may be reference here to the different methods of recording events in those days: -
1. A pen or stile of iron, for engraving on lead or wood.
2. A point of a diamond, for writing on vitreous substances.
3. Writing on tables of brass or copper.
4. Writing on the horns of the altars the names of the deities worshipped there. This is probable.
In several parts of India, and all through Ceylon, an iron or steel pen is used universally; with these the natives form the letters by incisions on the outer rind of the palm leaf. Books written in this way are very durable. This pen is broad at the top, has a very fine sharp point, and is sharp at one side as a knife, to shave and prepare the palm leaf. A pen of this description now lies before me.
