-
Verse Jeremiah 27:9. _THEREFORE HEARKEN NOT YE TO YOUR PROPHETS_] Who
pretend to have a revelation from heaven.
_NOR TO YOUR DIVINERS_] קסמיכם _kosemeychem_, from קסם
_kasam,_ to _presage_ or _progno...
-
DREAMERS - literally, as in the margin. People dream dreams for
themselves, and go to diviners to ask the explanation of them....
-
CHAPTER 27
The Optimism of the False Prophets Contradicted
_ 1. The call of Nebuchadnezzar to be the servant of God (Jeremiah
27:1) _
2. The call to submit and to serve the king of Babylon (Jeremia...
-
JEREMIAH 27-29. Certain linguistic peculiarities (_e.g._ the incorrect
spelling, Nebuchadnezzar) suggest that these three Chapter s may have
circulated as a separate pamphlet, _e.g._ in Babylon. They...
-
DIVINERS, &C. These were their heathen guides.
ENCHANTERS. observers of the clouds.
SORCERERS. These were mediums and necromancers....
-
Speedy deliverance from Babylon is not to be hoped for
These three Chapter s belong to the time of Zedekiah. The power of
Babylon had already been demonstrated as to Judah. Some of the people
had bee...
-
Certain kings having sent to invite Zedekiah to join them in an
attempt to overthrow the power of Babylon, Jeremiah warns them to
desist as the attempt would be futile. Du. points out that Zedekiah's...
-
_dreams_ those which the diviners, etc. professed to have had. Cp.
Jeremiah 23:25; Jeremiah 29:8. We should have expected rather
_dreamers_(so LXX Syr. Targ.), and MT. may have been introduced here
fr...
-
THEREFORE, HEARKEN NOT, &C.— He speaks to Zedekiah and to the
messengers of the other princes spoken of in Jeremiah 27:3. _The
diviners, dreamers,_ &c. belonged to the idolatrous nations; as the
_prop...
-
B. Instructions for the Foreign Ambassadors Jeremiah 27:4-11
TRANSLATION
(4) Command them to say to their lords: Thus says the LORD of hosts,
the God of Israel: Thus say unto your lords: I have made...
-
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor
to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which
speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Baby...
-
27:9 soothsayers, (b-19) Or, 'those that use auguries,' as Leviticus
19:26 ....
-
1-29. Judah is warned to submit to Babylon....
-
THEREFORE HEARKEN YE NOT TO YOUR PROPHETS. — The almost exhaustive
list of the names given to the men who claimed the power of prevision,
may have had its ground in the fact that each of the five name...
-
וְ֠ אַתֶּם אַל ־תִּשְׁמְע֨וּ אֶל
־נְבִיאֵיכֶ֜ם...
-
CHAPTER IX
HANANIAH
Jeremiah 27:1, Jeremiah 28:1
"Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, but thou makest this
people to trust in a lie."- Jeremiah 28:15
THE most conspicuous point at issu
-
Having thus repeated the vision and prophecies of the earlier times,
Jeremiah again addressed himself directly to Zedekiah. There can be no
doubt that the marginal reading of 27:l must be adopted, and...
-
_Prophets, who deluded the Jews, as diviners did the Gentiles._...
-
I only detain the Reader on these verses to remark, how in all ages,
the Church of God hath been infested by false prophets. With what
caution ought men to hear!...
-
As Jeremiah had declared to the king, as well as to the citizens, that
they could not escape the punishment that was at hand, he now shakes
off from them that vain confidence, which was as an obstacle...
-
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 AND 28.
Chapter s 27 and 28 go together. Their chief subject is the submission
to the head of the Gentiles, which God requires of the Jews. But
before dwel...
-
THEREFORE HEARKEN NOT YE TO YOUR PROPHETS,.... False prophets, as the
Targum. These words are not directed to the Jews, but are a
continuation of what the messengers of the nations should say to their...
-
_Hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners_ These nations,
it must be observed, had their prophets as well as the Jews, or rather
persons that pretended to foretel future events by consult...
-
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, the self-appointed leaders
of this class, NOR TO YOUR DIVINERS, those who insisted that they
could uncover the future, NOR TO YOUR DREAMERS, literally, "your...
-
THE MESSAGE OF THE YOKES...
-
DREAMERS:
_ Heb._ dreams...
-
1-11 Jeremiah is to prepare a sign that all the neighbouring
countries would be made subject to the king of Babylon. God asserts
his right to dispose of kingdoms as he pleases. Whatever any have of
t...
-
It is uncertain whether these words were part of the message which
Jeremiah by command from God sent to the kings above mentioned, or the
prophet's words to the Jews; for as those pagan nations had DI...
-
Jeremiah 27:9 listen H8085 (H8799) prophets H5030 diviners H7080
(H8802) dreamers H2472 soothsayers H6049 (H8781)
-
JEREMIAH WAS LATER COMMANDED TO SEND PARALLEL YOKES TO THE PLOTTERS OF
REBELLION WHOSE AMBASSADORS WERE CONGREGATED IN JERUSALEM (JEREMIAH
27:3).
The sending of the yokes to related nations, which wo...
-
WEARING THE YOKE OF SUBJECTION AND DEPENDENCE (JEREMIAH 27:1).
At YHWH's command Jeremiah had to wear a yoke demonstrating bondage.
Per the MT text this commenced at the beginning of Jehoiakim's reign...
-
CONTENTS: Sign of the yokes, to surrounding Gentile kings. Warning of
great calamity.
CHARACTERS: God, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah, Jeconiah.
CONCLUSION: Those who refuse to serve the God wh...
-
Jeremiah 27:1. _In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim._ In the
twelfth verse it is added, “I spake also to Zedekiah king of
Judah.” These occurrences induce some critics to believe that
Jehoiakim...
-
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE
CHAPTER.—“Beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim.” There is
authority for reading “_Zedekiah_” instead of “Jehoiakim.”
Henderson substitutes “Zedekiah,...
-
EXPOSITION
This and the two following chapters are closely connected. They all
relate to the early part of the reign of Zedekiah, and con-rain
warnings arising out of the deepening gloom of the politi...
-
Now Jeremiah goes on to declare that,
In the beginning (Jeremiah 27:1)
He's speaking this to the king Zedekiah.
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of
Judah came this w...
-
Acts 8:11; Deuteronomy 18:10; Deuteronomy 18:14; Exodus 7:11;...