Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Cut themselves ... make themselves bald - Both these practices were strictly forbidden in the Law (marginal references) probably as being pagan customs, but they seem to have remained in common use. By "making bald" is meant shaving a bare patch on the front of the head.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 16:6:
Job 27:15
Jeremiah 41:5
Jeremiah 47:5
Jeremiah 48:37
Amos 8:10
Zechariah 7:5
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