Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Jeremiah 36:7
We had an expression like this Jeremiah 36:3; it teacheth us that the only means to turn away God's fierce anger ready to fall upon people is prayer and reformation.
We had an expression like this Jeremiah 36:3; it teacheth us that the only means to turn away God's fierce anger ready to fall upon people is prayer and reformation.
Verse Jeremiah 36:7. _PRESENT THEIR SUPPLICATION_] "Let their supplication fall," that they may fall down before God, and deplore their sins....
THEY WILL PRESENT THEIR SUPPLICATION - i. e., humbly. See the margin. The phrase also contained the idea of the prayer being accepted....
CHAPTER 36 The Indestructibility of the Word of God _ 1. The writing of the roll (Jeremiah 36:1) _ 2. The reading of the roll (Jeremiah 36:4) 3. The king cuts and burns the roll (Jeremiah 36
JEREMIAH 36. THE WRITING OF THE ROLL. This chapter narrates how the oral prophecies of Jeremiah were first put into writing (604 B.C.). The account is obviously important for the criticism of this boo...
_they will present their supplication_ mg. _their supplication will fall_. The attitude of the petitioners is transferred in thought to the petition. Cp. the phrase in several other places (Jeremiah 3...
B. The Word Read Jeremiah 36:5-19 The word of God was never intended to be written and then deposited in the public archives. God's word is meant to be read, studied, heeded, and obeyed. Therefore it...
It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. T...
36:7 supplication (a-8) Lit. 'their supplication will fall.' before (b-9) Lit. 'before the face of.'...
EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE COLLECTION OF JEREMIAH'S PROPHECIES INTO A VOLUME (4TH AND 5TH YEARS OF JEHOIAKIM) The prophecies concerning Israel and Judah are now ended, and we have here the record of t...
אוּלַ֞י תִּפֹּ֤ל תְּחִנָּתָם֙ לִ פְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה...
CHAPTER III THE ROLL Jeremiah 36:1 "Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee."- Jeremiah 36:2 THE incidents which form so large a proportion of the c...
A VAIN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY GOD'S WORD Jeremiah 36:1-32 These written words had been directly given from God, Jeremiah 36:18. The fast was instituted to seek divine help in the approaching conflict wit...
This chapter constitutes an interpolation in the chronological order of Jeremiah's prophesying. In detail it tells the story of the writing of the words of Jeremiah in a book to which he had incidenta...
It may be they will (f) present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people...
They. Literally, "their supplication may fall prostrate before," &c. (Haydock) --- It is personified. So Homer represents (Calmet) "supplications," as daughters of Jupiter, lame, and with eyes averted...
As Jeremiah from long preaching was become unpleasant to those refractory spirits, Baruch appeared to be more likely to conciliate. The word was the same by both, and could not be altered, in accommod...
_A DREAD UNCERTAINTY_ ‘It may be.’ Jeremiah 36:3; Jeremiah 36:7 The words tell of an awful uncertainty as to the future of the chosen people. Will they repent? ‘It may be——’ Let us recognise— I....
Jeremiah, after having dictated to the scribe Baruch what he had before preached to the people, repeats what the object was, which we have previously observed; for it was God’s will to make the trial,...
Chapter 36 furnishes us with another example of the obstinacy with which the kings of Judah despised the call and the testimony of God. Jeremiah was shut up; but God can never fail in means to address...
IT MAY BE THEY WILL PRESENT THEIR SUPPLICATION BEFORE THE LORD,.... Or, "perhaps their supplication will fall" o; they will present it in an humble manner before him; alluding to the prostration of th...
It may be they will present their supplication before the LORD, and will return every one from his evil way: for great [is] the anger and the fury that the LORD hath pronounced against this people. V...
_It may be they will present their supplications_ Hebrew, תפל תחנתם לפני יהוה, _peradventure they may prostrate themselves in supplication before Jehovah;_ or, more literally, _their supplication may...
THE PROPHECIES RECORDED AND READ...
It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord, literally, "Possibly will fall down their pleadings before the face of Jehovah," as though kneeling before Him in an attitude of begging...
THEY WILL PRESENT THEIR SUPPLICATION: _ Heb._ their supplication shall fall...
1-8 The writing of the Scriptures was by Divine appointment. The Divine wisdom directed to this as a proper means; if it failed, the house of Judah would be the more without excuse. The Lord declares...
Jeremiah 36:7 present H5307 (H8799) supplication H8467 before H6440 LORD H3068 everyone H376 turn H7725 (H8799) evi
JEREMIAH CALLS ON BARUCH TO ACT AS HIS AMANUENSIS AND HAVING DICTATED HIS PROPHECIES SENDS HIM TO THE TEMPLE TO READ THEM OUT TO THE CROWDS WHO ARE GATHERED THERE ON A SPECIAL FAST DAY (JEREMIAH 36:4)...
JEREMIAH WRITES OUT HIS PROPHECIES IN WRITTEN FORM AND COMMITS THEM TO BARUCH WHO READS THEM OUT IN THE TEMPLE. THE SCROLL EVENTUALLY REACHES JEHOIAKIM WHO DEMONSTRATES HIS CONTEMPT FOR THE PROPHET BY...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's writing in the days of Jehoiakim. Reading on the fast day. Burning of the roll and orders to persecute Jeremiah. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Josiah, Baruch, Gemariah, M...
Jeremiah 36:1. _The fourth year of Jehoiakim._ Though this chapter seems out of its place, yet it may not be so, but may be a reference to past events. Jeremiah 36:2. _Take thee a roll of a book._ Anc...
_I am shut up._ JEREMIAH IN PRISON 1. Jeremiah’s age was one of great political troubles. 2. It was also an age of signal religious privileges. 3. It was an age of great moral corruption. I. His i...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—“_Fourth of Jehoiakim._” See Note on chap. 25. 2. NATIONAL AFFAIRS.—Jehoiakim was at that time vassal of Pharoah-Necho; but Nebuchadnezzar...
CHAPTERS 36-38. NARRATIVE OF EVENTS PRECEDING THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. Jeremiah 36:1. THE ROLL OF PROPHECY DESTROYED BY JEHOIAK
This time shall we turn to Jeremiah chapter 36 as we continue our journey through the Word of God towards heaven. Now as we have pointed out, the prophecies of Jeremiah are not in chronological order...
1 Kings 8:33; 2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Chronicles 33:13; 2 Chronicles 34:21;...
THE WORD OF THE LORD Jeremiah 36:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We want to show you how it was that Jeremiah spoke not his own words, but the words of the Lord. In order to do this, we want to place before y...