For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Ver. 5. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways.] If ye thoroughly execute judgment; if ye be serious in the one, and sedulous in the other. See Jeremiah 7:2 .
Verse Jeremiah 7:5. _IF YE THROUGHLY AMEND YOUR WAYS_] Literally, _If in_ _making good ye fully make good your ways_. God will no longer admit of _half-hearted_ work. _Semblances_ of piety cannot dece...
A summary of the conditions indispensable on man’s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor. Jeremiah 7:6 IN THIS PLACE - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent b...
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
THE TEMPLE SERMON. The prophet is sent to the gate of the Temple, to rebuke the false confidence of Yahweh's worshippers in the possession of this block of buildings (these, Jeremiah 7:4). Yahweh desi...
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14....
I. PRESUMPTUOUS WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:3-15 The men of Judah, like the majority of all ages, took worship for granted. They were content simply to show up at the Temple and participate in the prescribed r...
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; FOR - But (Maurer). EXECUTE JUDGMENT - justice ()....
7:5 justice (d-15) Elsewhere 'judgment.'...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
A MAN AND HIS NEIGHBOUR. — The Jewish idiom for the English “one man and another.”...
כִּ֤י אִם ־הֵיטֵיב֙ תֵּיטִ֔יבוּ אֶת ־דַּרְכֵיכֶ֖ם...
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...
It appears by the subject of the Prophet's sermon, that the men of Judah, while destitute of vital godliness, were much taken up with the form of it: and though without the love of God in their heart,...
Interpreters do not agree as to the meaning of this passage. Some render כי אם, _ki am_, “But rather, “or, “But.” I indeed allow that it is so taken in many places; but they are mistaken who read כי א...
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...
FOR IF YE THOROUGHLY AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS,.... Or, "if ye make your ways good, and do your works well", which is what is exhorted to Jeremiah 7:3, and respects the duties of the moral law;...
_For if ye thoroughly amend your ways_, &c. In these verses the prophet tells them particularly what the amendment was which was necessary that they might escape destruction. It must be a thorough ame...
GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE...
For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings, making a decided stand for a behavior in complete accordance with the holy will of God; IF YE THROUGHLY EXECUTE JUDGMENT BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS NEIG...
1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the prac...
He tells them, it is not their vain confidence in their privileges, and boasting of the temple, but only their serious and thorough repentance in turning to God, both in point of piety and equity, tha...
Jeremiah 7:5 thoroughly H3190 (H8687) amend H3190 (H8686) ways H1870 doings H4611 thoroughly H6213 (H8800) execute...
JUDAH MUST NOT TRUST IN THE PRESENCE OF THE TEMPLE FOR SECURITY BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THEIR EVIL WAYS YHWH INTENDS TO DO TO THE TEMPLE WHAT HE DID TO HIS HOUSE AT SHILOH, DESTROY IT (JEREMIAH 7:1). A...
Jeremiah 7:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that ente...
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...
_Stand in the gate. .. and proclaim._ BOLDNESS IN PREACHING Some preachers are traders from port to port, following the customary and approved course; others adventure over the whole ocean of human c...
_If ye thoroughly amend._ THOROUGH AMENDMENT 1. Religion has to do with character and conduct. Religion is that which “binds,” and it has a tremendous grip. It has to do not only with creeds, and fo...
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
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...
1 Kings 6:12; 1 Kings 6:13; Ezekiel 18:17; Ezekiel 18:8; Isaiah 1:19;...