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Verse Jeremiah 1:7. _WHATSOEVER I COMMAND THEE_] It is my words and
message, not thine own, that thou shalt deliver. I shall teach thee;
therefore thy youth and inexperience can be no hinderance....
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Jeremiah suggested two difficulties, the first inexperience, the
second timidity. God now removes the first of these. Inexperience is
no obstacle where the duty is simple obedience His timidity is rem...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE
JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED
CHAPTER 1
The Call of the Prophet
_ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _
2. The divin...
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THE PROPHET'S CALL. The account of this should be compared with
similar accounts of the calls of other prophets (see Isaiah 6, Ezekiel
1:1 to Ezekiel 3:3; Amos 7:12 ff.) and the characteristic differe...
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WHATSOEVER. COMMAND, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 22:20).
App-92....
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The Prophet's call and its nature...
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Here again there is brought out the contrast between Moses and
Jeremiah. The former had offered one objection after another (Exodus
3:11; Exodus 3:13; Exodus 4:1; Exodus 4:10
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Jeremiah's call
The passage will fall into four sections.
(i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah
1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful
to p...
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C. The Divine Assurance Jeremiah 1:7-10
When called of God Moses brought forth excuse after excuse; but
Jeremiah only needed encouragement and reassurance. The Lord took
steps to give that timid and...
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II. THE CALL EXTENDED Jeremiah 1:4-10
TRANSLATION
(4) Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying, (5) Before I formed
you in the belly I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart;
a proph...
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But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go
to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou
shalt speak.
TO ALL THAT - to all to whom (Rosenmuller). Rather...
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1:7 whomsoever (b-17) Or 'for everything for which.'...
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THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY
1-3. See Introduction....
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THE LORD SAID UNTO ME. — The misgiving, which was not reluctance, is
met by words of encouragement. God gave the work; He would also give
the power....
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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י אַל
־תֹּאמַ֖ר נַ֣ע
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CHAPTER I
THE CALL AND CONSECRATION
IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the
life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more
detailed study of his writin...
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COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER
Jeremiah 1:1-19
God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to
discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...
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The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and
giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry.
The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...
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Reader! do not fail to remark, how humbling grace is in the soul.
Before the Prophet was conscious of the work wrought in him, the
blessed effects were made to appear, in a lowliness suited to the
mer...
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Now follows the answer given to him, _Say not, I am a child; for thou
shalt go, etc_. God not only predicts here what the Prophet was to do,
but declares also what he designed him to do, and what he r...
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In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had
been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry
His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...
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BUT THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, SAY NOT, I AM A CHILD,.... This excuse will
not be admitted:
FOR THOU SHALL GO TO ALL THAT I SHALL SEND THEE; either to "every
place", as the Targum paraphrases; or "to all...
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But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou shalt go
to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou
shalt speak.
Ver. 7. _Say not, I am a child._] Plead no excuses...
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_But the Lord said unto me_, &c. God refuses to accept of his excuse,
and renews his commission to him to execute the prophetic office. Thus
God refused to accept the excuse of Moses, made on a like o...
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THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...
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But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child, in an effort to make
his youth and inexperience an excuse for refusing to follow the Lord's
call; FOR THOU SHALL GO TO ALL THAT I SHALL SEND THEE, AND...
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1-10 Jeremiah's early call to the work and office of a prophet is
stated. He was to be a prophet, not to the Jews only, but to the
neighbouring nations. He is still a prophet to the whole world, and...
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SAY NOT, I AM A CHILD; do not plead excuses. THOU SHALT GO: this is
God's answer to Jeremiah, in respect of his sense of his own
inability. This may be by way of command, and then it is a check to
his...
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Jeremiah 1:7 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) say H559 (H8799) youth H5288
go H3212 (H8799) send...
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JEREMIAH SEEKS TO EXCUSE HIMSELF FROM HIS GOD-APPOINTED TASK ONLY TO
BE SET RIGHT BY YHWH (JEREMIAH 1:7).
Jeremiah diffidently sought to excuse himself from the task to which
God was calling him, seei...
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JEREMIAH'S INITIAL CALL (JEREMIAH 1:4).
YHWH's initial call assures Jeremiah that he had been chosen even
before he was born, that he need not be afraid that he was still young
and immature (around t...
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Jeremiah 1:6
It is not improbable that Jeremiah was almost a child when he spoke
these words. Considering the time to which he lived, he must have been
young in the thirteenth year of Josiah, young en...
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Jeremiah 1:1
I. (Jeremiah 1:4). The two great blessings of _election_and
_mediation_are here distinctly taught. God did not speak to the
nations directly, but mediationally. He created a minister who...
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Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests
that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the
LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod
and seething pot.
CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim.
CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...
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Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the
creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature,
whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...
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_Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._
Seven points in Jeremiah’s life and call:--
1. God knowing him. “I knew thee.”
2. God sanctifying him. “I sanctified thee.”
3. God ordaining him. “...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce
the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s
call and message (vv....
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—
1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4,
_sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would
make the date of the “thirteen...
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EXPOSITION
AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC
OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...
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At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah.
About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I
feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...
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JEREMIAH, THE WAILING PROPHET
Jeremiah 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The ten tribes of Israel had passed into captivity before God called
Jeremiah. Judah was following hard in the path of her sister natio...
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Thou shalt speak — Fear not, I will make thee eloquent and
courageous....