Verse Jeremiah 23:21. _I HAVE NOT SENT THESE PROPHETS, YET THEY RAN_] Not to save souls, but to profit themselves. _I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THEM, YET THEY PROPHESIED._] They never received the word at...
RAN - i. e., hurried to take upon them the responsibilites of the prophetic office....
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)...
I HAVE NOT, &C. Compare Jeremiah 23:32; Jeremiah 14:14....
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. Here we again take up the thought of Jeremiah 23:18....
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...
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. I HAVE NOT SENT THESE PROPHETS, YET THEY RAN; I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THEM, YET THEY PROPHESIED - "sent...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
YET THEY RAN] as if appointed....
YET THEY RAN. — The image is that of messengers who rush eagerly, as from the king’s council-chamber, on their self-appointed mission, without waiting for the command of the Master in whose name they...
לֹא ־שָׁלַ֥חְתִּי אֶת ־הַ נְּבִאִ֖ים וְ הֵ֣ם
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...
_Not send. The want of mission proves a prophet or preacher to be false. (Worthington)_...
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 Prophet again warns the Jews not to be perverted by the flatteries of false teachers, and not to disregard the threatenings of God. We have already said that the minds of the people were then lull...
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...
I HAVE NOT SENT THESE PROPHETS, YET THEY RAN,.... They might be sent of men, and be encouraged by them; but they were not sent of God: it is not only necessary that men employed in religious affairs s...
I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. Ver. 21. _I have not sent these prophets._] Who I have duped you into the mouth of destruction, as that o...
_I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran_ They were always ready to bring you pleasing tidings as from me, though I had given them no commission so to do, or revealed any thing to them. _But if t...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
I have not sent these prophets, they had not been commissioned as His messengers, YET THEY RAN, unnaturally eager to carry out their self-imposed task; I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THEM, YET THEY PROPHESIED,...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Jeremiah 23:21 sent H7971 (H8804) prophets H5030 ran H7323 (H8804) spoken H1696 (H8765) prophesied H5012 ...
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...
_I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken them, yet they prophesied._ A DIVINE CALL INDISPENSABLE TO THE SUCCESS OF A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL I. A Divine call is necessary to wa...
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...
Acts 13:4; Isaiah 6:8; Jeremiah 14:14; Jeremiah 23:32; Jeremiah 27:15