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Verse Jeremiah 7:9. _WILL YE STEAL, MURDER_] Will you continue to
commit such abominations, and pretend to worship _me_; and thus defile
the place that is called by my name; and so make my house a _de...
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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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STEAL, MURDER, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:7)....
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See introd. note on the section....
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_Will ye steal_ WHAT! STEAL, etc. The Hebrew verb is in a form used
when the object is to present the action itself in the strongest
light. Cp. Jeremiah 32:33; Isaiah 21:5. The wording shews that the...
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B. A Fallacious Assumption Jeremiah 7:8-11
TRANSLATION
(8) Behold, you are trusting in the words of the worthless lie. (9)
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, sware falsely, offer incense
to Baa...
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Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and
burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
"Will ye steal, etc., and then come and stand before me?"
GOD...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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WILL YE STEAL. — The English obscures the emphasis of the Hebrew
idiom which gives the verbs as a series of infinitives, _What! to
steal, to murder, to burn incense to Baal..._ _and then have ye come...
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הֲ גָנֹ֤ב ׀ רָצֹ֨חַ֙ וְֽ נָאֹ֗ף וְ
הִשָּׁבֵ֥ע
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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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_Not, which have done you no good, and deserve not to be styled gods.
(Calmet)_...
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From what is said in these verses of men talking as if delivered to do
evil, it should seem, that there were in the Prophet's days, as well
as in ours, persons who took occasion from the doctrine of f...
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The meaning seems to be suspended in the first verse, when he says,
_Whether to steal, to kill, and to commit adultery, _etc.; but there
is nothing ambiguous in the passage. For though there is someth...
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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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WILL YE STEAL, MURDER, AND COMMIT ADULTERY, AND SWEAR FALSELY,.... At
the same time they offered sacrifices, and trusted in them, they did
those things, which would not be grateful to the Lord, nor pr...
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_Behold, ye trust in lying words_ Uttered by your false prophets, who
promise you peace, and sooth you up in your impenitence. _Will ye
steal, murder_, &c. Jeremiah does not charge them with the
trans...
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Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and
burn incense unto Baal, the chief idol of the heathen nations round
about, AND WALK AFTER OTHER GODS WHOM YE KNOW NOT, who have never...
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THE WARNING EXAMPLE OF SHILOH...
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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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Here the prophet mentions divers of those sins in which they were
notorious, they were _thieves, murderers, adulterers_, perjured
_idolaters_, &c,:q.d. Can you think that this can be grateful unto me,...
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Jeremiah 7:9 steal H1589 (H8800) murder H7523 (H8800) adultery H5003
(H8800) swear H7650 (H8736) falsely...
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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 7:9
There is a deal of vague floating excuse in our minds, which
practically amounts to making what we call Fate a scapegoat for our
sins. There are two forms which such an attempt at excuse...
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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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_Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely. .. and
say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?_
FATE
“It is my fate,” is the excuse for many a career of shame and sin.
I d...
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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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1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Kings 18:21; 2 Timothy 3:2;...
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Will ye steal — Can you think that this can be grateful to me, or
advantageous to yourselves, to frequent my house, and yet retain these
odious sins. Whom — Such as they had set up new, and never had...