Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 26:13

Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Ver. 13. Amend your ways.] Fall out with your faults, and not with your friends. See Jeremiah 7:3 .

And the Lord will repent him of the evil.] This he often inculcateth. Ideo minatur Deus ut non puniat. Therefore God will threaten so as not to punish. See Jeremiah 18:8 .

Continues after advertising

See also Jeremiah 26:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 26:13. _THEREFORE NOW AMEND YOUR WAYS_] If ye wish to escape the judgment which I have predicted, turn to God, and iniquity shall not be your ruin....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The answer of Jeremiah is simple and straightforward. Yahweh, he affirmed, had truly sent him, but the sole object of his prophesying had been to avert the evil by leading them to repentance. If they...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 26 Threatened with Death and His Deliverance _ 1. The temple like Shiloh, and Jerusalem to be a curse (Jeremiah 26:1) _ 2. Threatened with death (Jeremiah 26:8) 3. Jeremiah's defense ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 26. DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE FORETOLD: JEREMIAH'S PERIL (608 B.C.). Jeremiah is told to proclaim in the Temple (_cf._ Jeremiah 19:14; probably at some festival) a perilous message (keep not...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    OBEY. listen to. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to ch....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _your ways and your doings_ See on Jeremiah 7:3....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. THE ARREST AND TRIAL OF THE PROPHET Jeremiah 26:1-24 The faithful proclamation of the word of God is dangerous business. Amos, the prophet from Tekoa, was openly rebuked by Amaziah the high priest...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    B. The Trial Jeremiah 26:11-24 The proceedings at the New Gate were similar to those in any court of law. Formal charges were lodged against Jeremiah (Jeremiah 26:11) and then the prophet was allowed...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you. AMEND ... AND THE LORD WILL RE...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S FIFTEENTH PROPHECY (EARLY IN THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM) For Jeremiah 26:1 see intro. to Jeremiah 7-10. This chapter gives us a sketch of the difficulties and dangers under which Jeremiah had...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEREFORE NOW AMEND YOUR WAYS... — The prophet’s _apologia_ consists in repeating the substance of his message. He had not denounced an irreversible doom. He had held out the assurance of pardon on re...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּ֗ה הֵיטִ֤יבוּ דַרְכֵיכֶם֙ וּ מַ֣עַלְלֵיכֶ֔ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    UNGRATEFUL FORGETFULNESS Jeremiah 2:1-8; Jeremiah 26:1-24; Jeremiah 27:1-22; Jeremiah 28:1-17; Jeremiah 29:1-32; Jeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44 God regarded

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Once again Jeremiah repeated a previous message, one delivered yet earlier, "in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim." He had then been instructed to stand in the court of the Lord's house, and del...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Is there anything new or wonderful in this? What servant, what Prophet, what Apostle, eminent in their Lord's service, but hath been brought into the same situation. Nay, what was the Lord himself, wh...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    He not only confirms here what he had taught, but also reproves the hardness and obstinate wickedness of the priests and prophets; for though he addressed the princes and the people, he yet no doubt d...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 26 begins this series of details with a prophecy of the commencement of Jehoiakim's reign. The people are warned, as being already in sin, that if they repent, they shall escape. We have const...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE NOW AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS,.... Make them good; leave your evil ways, and walk in good ways; forsake your evil works, and do good works: AND OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD; an...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Amend your ways, and the Lord will repent_, &c. It appears here again that God's determination to give up Jerusalem to destruction was conditional: see note on Jeremiah 18:7. If the people had repent...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jeremiah's Defense and Deliverance...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore, now amend your ways and your doings, this appeal showing his disinterested motives, his desire to help his people in this emergency, AND OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD; AND THE LORD W...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-15 The priests and prophets charged Jeremiah as deserving death, and bore false witness against him. The elders of Israel came to inquire into this matter. Jeremiah declares that the Lord sent him...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    It is not I that have pronounced evil against you, but the Lord, who made both you and me: you rage against me, who am but God's instrument, by whom he lets you know his mind and will; it were more ad...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 26:13 amend H3190 (H8685) ways H1870 doings H4611 obey H8085 (H8798) voice H6963 LORD H3068 God...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    SECTION 2 SUBSECTION 1 COMMENCING WITH A SPEECH IN THE TEMPLE JEREMIAH WARNS OF WHAT IS COMING AND REPUDIATES THE PROMISES OF THE FALSE PROPHETS, AND WHILE OPPOSED BY THE HIERARCHY, HAS HIS OWN STATUS...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A). JEREMIAH DECLARES IN THE TEMPLE THAT IF JUDAH WILL NOT REPENT THEIR SANCTUARY WILL END UP LIKE THAT AT SHILOH, WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY THE PHILISTINES, AND THEIR CITY WILL BE SUBJECT TO YHWH'S CURS...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    REPENT (_ See Scofield) - (Zechariah 8:14). _...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message in the temple court. Spiteful treatment of Jeremiah and his brave stand. Martyrdom of Urijah. CHARACTERS: Jehoiakim, Jeremiah, Micah, Hezekiah, Urijah, Elnathan, Ahikam. CONCLUSION:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 26:1. _In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim._ See the note on Jeremiah 26:3. Jeremiah 26:2. _Stand in the court of the Lord's house._ See the note on...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah._ AFFLICTIONS, DISTRESSES, TUMULTS Jehoiakim was, perhaps, the most despicable of the kings of Judah. Josephus says that he was...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him, the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die._ THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A TRUE PROPHET I. The true prophet has a st...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. About three years earlier than the prophecy of preceding chapter. _Cf_. chapter 7 with this, and it is evident that they are synchronous. E...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    JEREMIAH'S TRIAL AND DELIVERANCE. EXPOSITION The prophecy in Jeremiah 26:2 is a summary of that contained in Jeremiah 7:1; the narrative, which stands in no connection either with...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Jer 26:1-24 through 30. In the twenty-second chapter of Jeremiah the Lord had ordered Jeremiah to go to the king's house, Zedekiah, and prophesy unto him. So these prophecies were those that Jeremiah...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 32:36; Exodus 32:14; Ezekiel 33:11; Hebrews 5:9; Hosea 1

Continues after advertising