The gate — The east gate, which was the publick place of going out and coming in, and where the people were then wont to assemble. Proclaim — Proclaiming signifies both the authority by which he spake, and the divulging of what he spake plainly and boldly; possibly, it might be at some publick time, when all the males were to meet.
Verse Jeremiah 7:2. _STAND IN THE GATE OF THE LORD'S HOUSE_] There was a show of public worship kept up. The temple was considered God's residence; the usual ceremonies of religion restored by Josiah...
In Jer. 7–10 he addresses the people as they flocked into Jerusalem from the country, to attend the solemn services in the temple upon a fastday. Jehoiakim Jeremiah 26 had just ascended the throne, an...
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...
IN THE GATE: i.e. in the fore-court. The proclamation has the Temple and its frequenters for its subject. ALL YE OF JUDAH. all Judah....
Absence from the LXX of all but "Hear … ye of Judah" suggests the probability that the rest has been supplied by an editor from ch. 26....
_the gate_ In Jeremiah 26:2 "the court" (perhaps the "new gate" of Jeremiah 36:10), probably between the inner and outer court, in the latter of which the crowd from city and country would assemble on...
THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH— We have here a new discourse, which reaches to the 13th chapter, wherein the prophet declaims against the vices of Judah and Jerusalem, particularly their hypocrisy and...
CHAPTER SEVEN SERMONS ON WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:1 to Jeremiah 8:3 The dating of the materials in this section is a vexing problem. Laetsch assigns this section to the days of king Josiah early in the mi...
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 enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. STAND IN THE GATE - i:e....
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
THE GATE OF THE LORD’S HOUSE. — As a priest, Jeremiah would have access to all parts of the Temple. On some day when the courts were thronged with worshippers (Jeremiah 7:10), probably a fast-day spec...
עֲמֹ֗ד בְּ שַׁ֨עַר֙ בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה וְ קָרָ֣את
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...
_Gate, before all the people. This discourse ends [in] chap. xiii. (Calmet)_...
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,...
Here the Prophet gives a short account of the sermon, in which he severely reproved the people, because his labor had been useless, though he had sharply and severely reproved them. He says then, that...
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...
STAND IN THE GATE OF THE LORD'S HOUSE,.... That is, of the temple, and the court of it. This gate, as Kimchi says, was the eastern gate, which was the principal gate of all; see Jeremiah 26:2: AND PR...
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 enter in at these gates to worship the LORD. Ver. 2. Stand in the gate...
_Stand in the gates of the Lord's house_ Namely, the east gate of the temple, which led directly to it, where he delivered this discourse, before all the people who entered there. _And proclaim there...
GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE...
Stand in the gate of the Lord's house, very likely that which led from the outer court to the Court of Israel, AND PROCLAIM THERE THIS WORD, where the worshiping multitudes from the entire country mig...
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...
STAND IN THE GATE, viz. the east gate, which was chiefly frequented; this being the public place of going out and coming in, and where the people were then wont to assemble, JEREMIAH 26:2,10; and he i...
Jeremiah 7:2 Stand H5975 (H8798) gate H8179 LORDS H3068 house H1004 proclaim H7121 (H8804) word H1697 say...
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...
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 22:19; Acts 5:20; Acts 5:42; Amos 7:16; Ezekiel 2:4;...