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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 7:22

For — God doth not condemn these offerings, save only comparatively in respect of obedience, not so much these, as obeying his commands.

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See also Jeremiah 7:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    OBEDIENCE NECESSARY, NOT SACRIFICE. Yahweh scornfully tells these formal worshippers to eat even the burnt-offering (wholly offered to God), as well as the peace-offering (which was eaten by the worsh...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I SPAKE NOT... CONCERNING... SACRIFICES. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 15:26; Exodus 19:5), which was _before any law was given._ This vindicates the passage from modern criticism. Compare Leviticus...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note on the section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The passage is of the highest importance in its bearing on the epochs at which the different parts of the Pentateuch were severally composed. It is now held to be made up from elements of very diverse...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    PUT YOUR BURNT-OFFERINGS, &C.— Houbigant renders this, _Put together your burnt-offerings with your peace-offerings; and eat their flesh._ The meaning is, "Eat your sacrifices yourselves, your burnt-o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. PRIORITIES IN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:21-28 As Jeremiah looks at the current religious observances he sees only perfunctory compliance with outward ritual (Jeremiah 7:21). He reminds his listeners tha...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: FOR I SPAKE NOT UNTO YOUR FATHERS, NOR COMMA...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I SPAKE NOT... CONCERNING BURNT OFFERINGS OR SACRIFICES. — “Concerning” is, literally, _for,_ or _with a view to, the matter of sacrifices._ The words seem at first hard to reconcile with the multipli...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֠י לֹֽא ־דִבַּ֤רְתִּי אֶת ־אֲבֹֽותֵיכֶם֙ וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For (k) I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: (k) Showing that it was not his chief purpos...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    I commanded them not: viz., such sacrifices as the Jews at this time offered without obedience; which was the thing principally commanded: so that in comparison with it, the offering of the holocausts...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pause, not to interrupt the Reader in the progress of these verses, they are all to the same amount as the former. How pathetically the Prophet mourns the obstinacy of his people! Surely ministers o...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet therefore adds, _I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them, in the day I brought them forth from the land of Egypt, concerning sacrifices or burnt _—_offerings: but this only I comma...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR I SPAKE NOT UNTO YOUR FATHERS,.... Meaning not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Moses, Aaron, and others, who were living at the time of the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt, as appea...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Ver. 22. _For I spake not unto your fathers._]...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel_ And let Israel hear when their God speaks _Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh_ The burnt-offerings, after they were flayed,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For I spake not unto your fathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices, it was not His object to establish a mere externa...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    CONCERNING: _ Heb._ concerning the matter of...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    21-28 God shows that obedience was required of them. That which God commanded was, Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God. The promise is very encouraging. Let God's will be your rule, an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Some would argue from hence that sacrifices were at first an invention of men, as papists and Socinians; and because they should not be used to idols, God gave way for the introducing them into his wo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 7:22 speak H1696 (H8765) fathers H1 command H6680 (H8765) day H3117 out H3318 (H8687) land...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH EXPLAINS TO JEREMIAH WHY HE SEES HIS PEOPLE AS HAVING GONE BEYOND WHAT WAS ACCEPTABLE, AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MUST INEVITABLY BE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY REFUSED TO HEAR HIS VOICE (JEREMI...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    NOR COMMANDED (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 20:4), note 2, _ the threefold giving of the law. The command concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices was not given to the people till they had broken the...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 7:21. _Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I b...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:22 Acceptable sacrifices are based on a right relationship created by faith in the God who delivers (Exodus 19:3). Only those who believe will obey

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 15:22; Hosea 6:6; Mark 12:33; Matthew 9:13; Psalms 40:6;...

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