John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 16:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Both the great and the small shall die in this land, etc.] The nobles as well as the common people, high and low, rich and poor; none shall be exempted from the grievous deaths by the sword, famine, and pestilence. They shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them; as before, (<241604>Jeremiah 16:4), this shall be the common case of them all; the great and the rich shall have no more care and notice taken of them than the poor: nor cut themselves; their flesh, with their nails, or with knives, to show their grief for the dead, and to alleviate the sorrow of surviving friends, by bearing a part with them: nor make themselves bald for them; by plucking off the hair of their heads, or by shaving them, and between their eyes; which though forbidden the Jews by the law of God, as being Heathenish customs, yet obtained in the times of Jeremiah, and were usually done; (see <051401>Deuteronomy 14:1).

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