Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Jeremiah 13

Jeremiah 13:7
Then I went to the Euphrates and dug, and I took the waistband from the place where I had hidden it; and lo, the waistband was ruined, it was totally worthless.
Why was he to go to the Euphrates?  If he's still near Jerusalem, that's a journey of hundreds of miles, which he may have had to make twice.  Has his location changed for some reason?  Or did God just send him on a really long vacation?

Why use a waistband?  What was the point of using that piece of clothing/equipment?  The purpose of a waistband is to hold your cloak to the body.  If the waistband was missing, it'd be like a bathrobe's belt had gone.  At the least, the clothes would be more unwieldy when moving around.  At worst, you might expose yourself.

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