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Verse Jeremiah 23:28. _WHAT_ IS _THE CHAFF TO THE WHEAT? SAITH THE
LORD._] Do not mingle these _equivocal matters_ with _positive
revelations_. Do not consider a _dream_, even from a prophet, as that...
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A DREAM ... FAITHFULLY - Rather, as “a dream”... as truth. The
dream is but a dream, and is to be told as such, but God’s word is
to be spoken as certain and absolute truth.
The dreams are the chaff,...
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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...
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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)...
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HE THAT HATH, &C. Compare Ezekiel 13:7.
CHAFF. crushed, or chopped straw. Hebrew. _teben._...
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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...
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See introd. summary to section....
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Mere dreams and the truth of God are to be kept asunder.
_What is the straw to the wheat?_ God's word contains nourishment and
life. Other words are but as straw....
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DISCOURSE: 1062
FIDELITY REQUIRED IN MINISTERS
Jeremiah 23:28, _He that hath my word, let him speak my word
faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my
word like as fire? sa...
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THE PROPHET THAT HATH A DREAM— "Let him propose his dream to those
who are truly inspired, that they may judge whether the dream is from
God, and that they may not give out simple dreams and vain
imag...
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3. _The methods of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:23-32)
TRANSLATION
(23) Am I a God near at hand (oracle of the LORD), and not a God far
off? (24) Can a man hide himself in secret places that I am...
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath
my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the
wheat? saith the LORD.
THE PROPHET THAT HATH A DREAM, LET H...
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1-4. A remnant shall return....
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The contrast between true and false prophecy. God's word contains
nourishment and life. Other words are but as chaff, or, rather, straw....
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LET HIM TELL A DREAM. — The point of the words lies in the contrast
between the real and the counterfeit revelation. Let the dreamer tell
his dream as such, let the prophet speak the word of Jehovah t...
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הַ נָּבִ֞יא אֲשֶׁר ־אִתֹּ֤ו חֲלֹום֙
יְסַפֵּ֣ר...
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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...
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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...
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him (x) tell a dream; and he that
hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. (y) What [is] the
chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
(x) Let the false prophet de...
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_Dream, to those who are really sent by God, (Calmet) and recognized,
1 Corinthians xiv. 29. (Haydock)_...
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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...
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We ought also to read this verse attentively, for doubtless it
contains a doctrine especially useful. I have already said, that the
faith of many might have failed at seeing a conflict in the Temple o...
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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...
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THE PROPHET THAT HATH A DREAM, LET HIM TELL A DREAM,.... These words
are directed not to a true prophet of the Lord, that has a dream from
him, or something communicated to him in a dream by the Lord,...
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath
my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the
wheat? saith the LORD.
Ver. 28. _The prophet that hath a dr...
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_The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream_ Or, as some
render it, _let him tell it as a dream._ Let him lay no more stress
upon it than men do upon their dreams, nor expect any more regard t...
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AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream, frankly relating
it as such, without indulging in extravagant assertions; AND HE THAT
HATH MY WORD, being entrusted with its proclamation, LET HIM...
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23-32 Men cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never
see what judgments they prepare for themselves? Let them consider what
a vast difference there is between these prophecies and th...
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A DREAM; not a Divine dream; a revelation which I have made to him in
his sleep (as appeareth by the following opposition, betwixt a _dream_
and the _word of the Lord_); but if any man hath dreamed an...
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Jeremiah 23:28 prophet H5030 dream H2472 tell H5608 (H8762) dream
H2472 word H1697 speak H1696 (H8762) word...
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YHWH REJECTS THE TESTIMONY OF THE FALSE JERUSALEM PROPHETS AND REVEALS
HIMSELF AS THE ALL-KNOWING ONE), CONDEMNING THE TEMPLE PROPHETS AS
FALSE DREAMERS WHO CAUSE THE PEOPLE TO ERR. THEY ARE IN DIRECT...
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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...
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Jeremiah 23:28
I. The human dream is empty, but the Divine word is substantial. Chaff
is a mere husk, but wheat is all grain. So the antagonists of the
Bible deal in vague speculations or empty negat...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath
My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully._
THE WORD AND THE DREAM
The prophet here exhibits in contrast Divine teaching and the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 3:12; 1 Corinthians 3:13; 1 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Timothy
1:12;...
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What is the wheat — There is as much difference between my will and
their dreams, as there is betwixt the chaff and the wheat....