This thing, or word, which is the rule by which all obedience is to be tried, viz. what commands, every thing else being but mere superstition. That it may be well unto you: he shows what would be the good effect of their obedience, Exodus 15:26 Deuteronomy 5:29,33, which implies that their sufferings are from their perverseness, as it is expressed in the next verse.
Verse Jeremiah 7:23. _THIS THING COMMANDED I THEM - OBEY MY VOICE_] It was not _sacrifices_ and _oblations_ which I required of your fathers in the wilderness, but _obedience_; it was to _walk in tha...
OBEY ... - These words are not found verbatim in the Pentateuch, but are a sum mary of its principles. Sacrifice is never the final cause of the covenant, but always obedience (Exodus 19:5; Leviticus...
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
OBEDIENCE NECESSARY, NOT SACRIFICE. Yahweh scornfully tells these formal worshippers to eat even the burnt-offering (wholly offered to God), as well as the peace-offering (which was eaten by the worsh...
THIS THING... OBEY, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:3). App-92....
See introd. note on the section....
The nature of the compact was protection on the one hand conditional upon obedience on the other. _Hearken unto my voice_ The nearest approach to these words, considered as a quotation, is Exodus 19:...
PUT YOUR BURNT-OFFERINGS, &C.— Houbigant renders this, _Put together your burnt-offerings with your peace-offerings; and eat their flesh._ The meaning is, "Eat your sacrifices yourselves, your burnt-o...
III. PRIORITIES IN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:21-28 As Jeremiah looks at the current religious observances he sees only perfunctory compliance with outward ritual (Jeremiah 7:21). He reminds his listeners tha...
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. BUT...
7:23 people; (a-23) Lit. 'I will be to you for God, and ye shall be to me for people.'...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
BUT THIS THING COMMANDED I THEM. — The words that follow are a composite quotation, partly from the lately re-found Deuteronomy (Deuteronomy 5:33), partly from the words that were strictly true of the...
כִּ֣י אִֽם ־אֶת ־הַ דָּבָ֣ר הַ֠ זֶּה
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
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...
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...
_I spoke not _then to _your fathers, nor commanded them in the day I brought them forth from the land of Egypt, etc. _The Prophet calls the attention of the Jews to the first condition of the Church;...
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...
BUT THIS THING COMMANDED I THEM, SAYING,.... This was the sum and substance of what was then commanded, even obedience to the moral law; this was the main and principal thing enjoined, and to which th...
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. Ver. 23...
_Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel_ And let Israel hear when their God speaks _Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh_ The burnt-offerings, after they were flayed,...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
but this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people, that being the fundamental principle upon which the entire relation between God and Israel wa...
21-28 God shows that obedience was required of them. That which God commanded was, Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God. The promise is very encouraging. Let God's will be your rule, an...
Jeremiah 7:23 this H1697 commanded H6680 (H8765) saying H559 (H8800) Obey H8085 (H8798) voice H6963 God...
YHWH EXPLAINS TO JEREMIAH WHY HE SEES HIS PEOPLE AS HAVING GONE BEYOND WHAT WAS ACCEPTABLE, AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MUST INEVITABLY BE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY REFUSED TO HEAR HIS VOICE (JEREMI...
Jeremiah 7:21. _Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I b...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:1 False Religion and an Idolatrous People. These chapters give evidence of the truth of God’s accusations in chs. Jeremiah 2:1. Judah takes com
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:22 Acceptable sacrifices are based on a right relationship created by faith in the God who delivers (Exodus 19:3). Only those who believe will obey
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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 10:5; Deuteronomy 11:27; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 30:2;...