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Verse Jeremiah 7:29. _CUT OFF THINE HAIR_] גזי נזרך _gozzi
nizrech, shear thy_ _nazarite_. The Nazarite was one who took upon him
a particular vow, and separated himself from all worldly connexions
f...
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Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences
of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they
offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before t...
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THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9)
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _
2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16)
3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
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JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let
Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by
her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for t...
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CUT OFF THINE HAIR.. symbol of mourning.
JERUSALEM: or, supply "daughter of My People". Compare Jeremiah 8:11;
Jeremiah 8:19; Jeremiah 8:21;...
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_hair_ lit. (as mg.) _crown_, Heb. _nezer_, and used of the long hair
worn in fulfilment of the _Nazirite's_vow (Numbers 6:7). Jerusalem
must now shew by outward sign her faithlessness to her vows of...
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CUT OFF THINE HAIR, O JERUSALEM— See Job 1:20. Isaiah 15:2 and
Ezekiel 27:31. Jerusalem is here addressed as a woman under extreme
misery, and exhorted to take upon her the habit and disposition of a...
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IV. POLLUTED WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3
Again Jeremiah takes up the subject of paganized worship. He speaks of
the present defilement of the population of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 7:29),
of the...
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Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a
lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken
the generation of his wrath.
CUT OFF THINE HAIR. Jeremiah addres...
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7:29 heights; (c-16) Or 'bare hills.' see ch. 3.2....
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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CUT OFF THINE HAIR] in token of mourning, or as a Nazirite shaved his
head after immediate contact with a dead body (Numbers 6:9) to mark
defilement. The hair was the mark of consecration of the High...
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CUT OFF THINE HAIR. — Literally, as in 2 Samuel 1:10; 2 Kings 11:12,
_thy crown_ or _diadem;_ but the verb determines the meaning. The word
_Netzer_ (“consecration” in the Authorised version) is appli...
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גָּזִּ֤י נִזְרֵךְ֙ וְֽ הַשְׁלִ֔יכִי
וּ שְׂאִ֥י...
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Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1
In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is
plainly a fin
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With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet
commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first
denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
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Cut off thy (o) hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a
lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken
the generation of his (p) wrath.
(o) In sign of mourning, as...
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CHAPTER VII.
_ High. People lamented in such places, chap. ix. 13., and Judges xi.
35. (Calmet) --- Wrath, which he treats with the utmost severity.
(Haydock)_...
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I pause, not to interrupt the Reader in the progress of these verses,
they are all to the same amount as the former. How pathetically the
Prophet mourns the obstinacy of his people! Surely ministers o...
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Here again Jeremiah exhorts his own people to lament; and he uses the
feminine gender, as though he called the people, the daughter of Sion,
or the daughter of Jerusalem. He then, according to a commo...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9.
Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple,
which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without
conscience, wo...
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CUT OFF THINE HAIR, O JERUSALEM, AND CAST IT AWAY,.... This supplement
is made, because the word is feminine; and therefore cannot be
directed to the prophet, but to Jerusalem, and its inhabitants;
sh...
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Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a
lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken
the generation of his wrath.
Ver. 29. _Cut off thine hair, O J...
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_Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem_ This was commonly practised in the
time of great sorrow and mourning. And Jerusalem is here addressed as
a woman in extreme misery, and exhorted to take upon her the ha...
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29-34 In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be
degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him.
The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but...
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CUT OFF THINE HAIR; it was a usual token of sorrow among the Jews to
cut off the hair, JOB 1:20 ISAIAH 15:2 MICAH 1:16. But here he
speaketh either,
1. To Jeremiah; for O JERUSALEM is not in the text...
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Jeremiah 7:29 off H1494 (H8798) hair H5145 away H7993 (H8685) up H5375
(H8798) lamentation H7015 heights...
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CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming
desolations because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast
themselves...
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Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the
people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force
of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:29 THE GENERATION OF HIS WRATH. The
generation that experienced loss of the Promised Land.
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_
regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s
reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
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EXPOSITION
Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements
of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this
discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
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So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of
Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the
temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in
r...
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2 Kings 17:20; Acts 2:40; Deuteronomy 32:5; Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 28:
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Cut off thine hair — This was an usual token of sorrow among the
Jews. On high places — Upon the high places where thou wentest a
whoring from me. The generation — A generation destined to the wrath
o...