Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
defenced city, etc.—that is, I will give thee strength which no power of thine enemies shall overcome (Jeremiah 6:27; Jeremiah 15:20; Isaiah 50:7; Isaiah 54:17; Luke 21:15; Acts 6:10).
walls—plural, to express the abundant strength to be given him. DE ROSSI'S'S manuscripts read singular, "wall."
people of the land—the general masses, as distinguished from the princes and priests.
Probably in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah (Jeremiah 1:2; compare Jeremiah 3:6, "also . . . in . . . days of Josiah"). The warning not to rely as they did on Egypt (Jeremiah 2:18), was in accordance with Josiah's policy, who took part with Assyria and Babylon against Egypt (II Kings 23:29). Jeremiah, doubtless, supported the reformation begun by Josiah, in the previous year (the twelfth of his reign), and fully carried out in the eighteenth.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 1:18:
Jeremiah 1:7
Jeremiah 6:27
Jeremiah 15:18
Jeremiah 15:20-21
Zechariah 6:1
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