Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 17:21
Take heed to yourselves; the Hebrew is, Take heed to your souls, intimating to us that the sanctification of the sabbath is a great thing, wherein the welfare of our souls is concerned.
Take heed to yourselves; the Hebrew is, Take heed to your souls, intimating to us that the sanctification of the sabbath is a great thing, wherein the welfare of our souls is concerned.
Verse Jeremiah 17:21. _TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES AND BEAR NO BURDEN_] From this and the following verses we find the ruin of the Jews attributed to the breach of the Sabbath; as this led to a neglect o...
This prophecy on the observance of the Sabbath, is the first of a series of short predictions. arranged probably in chronological order among themselves, but in other respects independent of one anoth...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _ 2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5) 3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12) 4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
THE SABBATH DAY. The general tone and emphasis of this paragraph, which makes a particular ceremonial ordinance the condition of permanent survival, relate it rather to the period of Nehemiah 13:15 th...
YOURSELVES. your souls. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. BEAR NO BURDEN. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:8; Exodus 23:12; Exodus 31:13). Compare...
Jeremiah 17:19-27. An exhortation on the observance of the Sabbath This section is unconnected with the preceding, and, as it considers that the doom pronounced on Judah may be averted on condition o...
_to yourselves_ rather as mg. _for your life's sake_, Heb. _in your souls_; we should say, _As you value your lives_....
VI. PROPHETIC PROCLAMATION Jeremiah 17:19-27 Chapter 17 ends with a prose discourse urging the keeping of the Sabbath. Like Amos (Amos 8:4-6) and Isaiah (Isaiah 56, 58) before him, Jeremiah regarded v...
Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem; Delivered in...
כֹּ֚ה אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה הִשָּׁמְר֖וּ בְּ נַפְשֹֽׁותֵיכֶ֑ם...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
CHAPTER X THE SABBATH - A WARNING Jeremiah 17:19 "THUS said Iahvah unto me: Go and stand in the gate of Benjamin, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and whereby they go out; and in all the gates o...
Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the (t) sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem; (t) By naming the Sabbath day, he comprehends the thing that is si...
CHAPTER XVII. _ Souls. Those who broke the sabbath were to die, Exodus xxx. 15., and Numbers xv. 32. --- Burdens, or servile work. (Calmet) --- The Jews trifle in deciding what is a burden. (Origen,...
No sooner had the Prophet finished his prayer, than he begins again his Sermon. It is a delightful transition from preaching to prayer, and from prayer to preaching. Both form a part in the minister's...
He bids them to _attend_, or to beware _in their souls_. Some render the words, “As your souls are precious to you.” But I take souls, not for their lives, but for the affections of their hearts; as t...
The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and sho...
THUS SAITH THE LORD, TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES,.... That ye sin not against the Lord, by breaking the sabbath, and so bring wrath and ruin upon yourselves: or "to your souls" a; to the inward frame of t...
Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring [it] in by the gates of Jerusalem; Ver. 21. _Take heed to yourselves._] Break not the Sabbath, that ye f...
_Thus saith the Lord, Go_, &c. Here we evidently have a distinct prophecy, which the prophet was commanded to deliver most probably soon, if not immediately, after the foregoing. _Stand in the gate of...
THE HALLOWING OF THE SABBATH...
Thus saith the Lord, Take heed to yourselves, literally, "preserve your souls," guard over your souls, namely, on account of the danger which otherwise threatened their lives, AND BEAR NO BURDEN ON TH...
19-27 The prophet was to lay before the rulers and the people of Judah, the command to keep holy the sabbath day. Let them strictly observe the fourth command. If they obeyed this word, their prosper...
Jeremiah 17:21 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 heed H8104 (H8734) yourselves H5315 bear H5375 (H8799) burden...
THE CALL GOES OUT FOR THE TRUE OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH DAY (JEREMIAH 17:19). In Jeremiah 17:5 YHWH had promised cursing and blessing on individuals depending on whether they were obedient to His cov...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the gates concerning the Sabbath. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and dece...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_ se...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1): Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in...
Acts 20:28; Deuteronomy 11:16; Deuteronomy 4:15; Deuteronomy 4:23;...