Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 23:18
For who — Which of those prophets, that prophesy such terrible things against this city is a privy — counsellor to God? The words seem to be the words of the false prophets.
For who — Which of those prophets, that prophesy such terrible things against this city is a privy — counsellor to God? The words seem to be the words of the false prophets.
Verse Jeremiah 23:18. _WHO HATH STOOD IN THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD_] Who of _them_ has ever received a word of prophecy from me? _My word_ is not _in_ _them_....
The prophet now applies this test to the circumstances of the times. A whirlwind has already gone forth Jeremiah 23:19. Had these false prophets stood in God’s secret “Council” (so in Jeremiah 23:22),...
CHAPTER 23:9-40 Condemnation of the False Prophets _ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah 23:9) _ 2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15) 3. Forgotten and...
THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest (Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Implying that none hath. COUNSEL. secret council. Compare Psalms 25:14. HIS. Hebrew text, with Revised Version, reads "My"; but margin of Hebrew text, the Babyl...
Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also grievously misled t...
See introd. summary to section....
_who hath stood, etc_.] not meaning that Jeremiah himself had not been admitted to the council of Jehovah, but, as the context sufficiently shews, that this had been denied to the false prophets. Cp....
_JEREMIAH 23:18_.— _For who hath stood in,_ &c.] _But who hath been present,_ &c. These are the words of Jeremiah to the false prophets, "Who of you, O false prophets, can boast of having really enter...
2. _The message of the fake prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:16-22) TRANSLATION (16) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not hearken to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are causing you to...
For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? FOR WHO HATH STOOD IN THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD? A reason is given why th...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
FOR WHO HATH STOOD, etc.] meaning that at any rate these false prophets had not done so....
THE COUNSEL. — Better, perhaps, _the council,_ the “assembly” of chosen friends with whom a man shares his secret plans. So in Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 15:17; Psalms 89:7, “assembly.” Could any of the...
כִּ֣י מִ֤י עָמַד֙ בְּ סֹ֣וד יְהוָ֔ה וְ
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1 "Of what avail is straw instead...
Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and p...
For (p) who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]? (p) Thus they derided Jeremiah as though the word of God was not re...
_Counsel. Hebrew, "secret." Which of you is acquainted with his designs? I will inform you, that your perdition is at hand, ver. 20. (Calmet)_...
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them, and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
The verse which follows is usually thus explained, Jeremiah condemns the false teachers for their carelessness, because they attended not to the word of God, and regarded as nothing what the Law conta...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
FOR WHO HATH STOOD IN THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD,.... These are either the words of the Prophet Jeremiah; signifying that none of the false prophets were of God's privy council, or were acquainted with h...
For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]? Ver. 18. _For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord?_] _Quis praete...
_For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord?_ These are either the words of God expressing that none of these pretended prophets knew any thing of his designs, as he had not revealed them unto them...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, when He made His plans concerning the punishment of the wicked, AND HATH PERCEIVED AND HEARD HIS WORD? The answer implied is an emphatic no, so far as th...
COUNSEL: Or, secret...
9-22 The false prophets of Samaria had deluded the Israelites into idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem as guilty of more horrible wickedness, by which the people were...
Who besides us hath known THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD? arrogating to themselves a fellowship and acquaintance with the mind and will of God. Or, (which I should rather judge the sense,) Which of those pro...
Jeremiah 23:18 stood H5975 (H8804) counsel H5475 LORD H3068 perceived H7200 (H8799) heard H8085 (H8799) word...
2). YHWH CALUMNIATES THE FALSE PROPHETS AND QUESTIONS WHAT THEY TEACH, EXPLAINING WHAT THE RESULTS OF THEIR PROPHESYING WILL BE, AND EMPHASISING THAT THEY WERE NOT SENT OR ENLIGHTENED BY HIM (JEREMIAH...
JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9). Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those who had been distorting that visio...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD._ What a dreadful woe this is upon all false shepherds, those who profess to be sent of God to...
CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against the faithless shepherds. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and preten...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28, because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah, our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the LORD (Jeremiah 23:1). God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
1 Corinthians 2:16; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Chronicles 18:23; Amos 3:7;...