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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...
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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
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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...
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THEN WILL. CAUSE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:40).
FOR EVER AND EVER. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the
Whole), for an age-abiding duration....
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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...
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Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave
to your fathers, for ever and ever.
THEN WILL I CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS PLACE - the apodosis to the
"if ... if" (Jeremiah 7...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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FOR EVER AND EVER. — Literally, _from eternity to eternity,_ or,
perhaps, _from age to age._ The English punctuation connects these
words with “I will cause you to dwell,” but the accentuation of
the...
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וְ שִׁכַּנְתִּ֤י אֶתְכֶם֙ בַּ †
מָּקֹ֣ום הַ...
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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
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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...
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Then (b) will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I
gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
(b) God shows on what condition he made his promise to this temple
that they would be a h...
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_Dwell. Hebrew and Septuagint as [in] ver. 3. (Haydock)_...
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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,...
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Then follows the latter part, _Then I will make you to dwell_, (192)
etc. God sets this clause in opposition to the false confidence of the
people, as though he had said, “Ye wish me to be propitious...
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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...
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THEN WILL I CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS PLACE,.... In the land of
Judea, and not suffer them to be carried captive, which they had been
threatened with, and had reason to expect, should they continue i...
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_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...
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GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE...
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then will I cause you to dwell in this place, permitting them to
continue as inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah, IN THE LAND THAT I
GAVE YOUR FATHERS, FOREVER AND EVER, for a long period of
uninterrup...
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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...
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THEN, i.e. upon this condition, that you will return unto me, then
either I will establish and fix you in the land; or, as anciently
read, _sachanti_ in _kal_, I will dwell, viz. amongst you in this
p...
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Jeremiah 7:7 dwell H7931 (H8765) place H4725 land H776 gave H5414
(H8804) fathers H1 forever H5704...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 33:8; Deuteronomy 4:40; Jeremiah 17:20; Jeremiah 18:7;...