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REPROBATE - See the margin; not really silver, but the dross.
THE LORD HATH REJECTED THEM - This then is the end. The smelter is
God’s prophet: the bellows the breath of inspiration: the flux his
earn...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)...
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THE PROPHET'S TASK. The record of earlier prophecies (Jeremiah 6:1)
fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the
trier (_mg._) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy mixed w...
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REPROBATE... REJECTED. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_
(App-6). Hebrew. _nim'as... ma'as:_ i.e. rejected (silver)... rejected
(them). Compare Isaiah 1:22.Ezekiel 22:18....
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The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
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In these _vv_. the Lord reassures Jeremiah of his divine commission,
and he appears under the figure of one testing metal. The result of
the testing process is that no precious metal is found. All is...
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_Refuse … rejected_ There is a play on the words in the Hebrew.
_Refuse refused_....
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I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER, &C.— The prophet in these verses
evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the
verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such trial,
m...
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6. _The hopeless task of the Prophet_ (Jeremiah 6:27-30)
TRANSLATION
(27) A tower have I made you among My people, a fortified city that
you may know, then test their way. (28) They are all rebelliou...
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Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected
them.
REPROBATE SILVER - silver so full of alloy as to be utterly worthless
(, "Thy silver is become dross"). The Jews were fit...
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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REPROBATE] RV 'refuse.'
JEREMIAH'S FOURTH PROPHECY (OR GROUP OF PROPHECIES). GOD'S JUDGMENT
UPON THE UNREPENTANT
When the check which Josiah's personal character and influence put
upon idolatry was...
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REPROBATE SILVER. — Better, as in the margin, _refuse silver;_ the
dross and not the metal; so worthless that even Jehovah, as the great
refiner, rejects it utterly, as yielding nothing. The adjective...
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כֶּ֣סֶף נִמְאָ֔ס קָרְא֖וּ לָהֶ֑ם
כִּֽי ־מָאַ֥ס...
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would under
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This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
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REFLECTIONS
Lord Jesus! look upon thy Church, thy vineyard, thy Benjamin, beloved:
and place her in times of danger, in the Beth-haccerem of safety in
thyself. Remember thou dear Lord, what thou hast...
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The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way
of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are
as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
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Jeremiah concludes his subject by saying, — that if the Jews had
been cast a hundred times into the furnace, they would not be
improved, as they would never become softened on account of their
hopeles...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto th...
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REPROBATE SILVER SHALL MEN CALL THEM,.... Or, "call ye them" i, as the
Targum; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; by whom
are meant the Jews, who thought themselves of some account...
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_Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath
rejected them._
Ver. 30. Reprobate _a_ silver shall men call them.] Dross and refuse,
rather than pure metal; "silver" they would seem t...
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Reprobate silver shall men call them, silver so thoroughly mixed with
the baser metals as to be worthless for all ordinary purposes, BECAUSE
THE LORD HATH REJECTED THEM. All those whom the Lord has tr...
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THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for
their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator;
but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
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REPROBATE SILVER; or, _Refuse silver_; such as will be rejected in
payments; they are not to be purged or reformed. SHALL MEN CALL THEM;
or, _be called_, i.e. they shall be esteemed such as will not p...
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Jeremiah 6:30 call H7121 (H8804) rejected H3988 (H8737) silver H3701
LORD H3068 rejected H3988 (H8804)...
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JEREMIAH LEARNS THAT YHWH HAS ESTABLISHED HIM AS AN ASSAYER OF HIS
PEOPLE, AS WELL AS THEIR FORTRESS, ALTHOUGH ALL THAT HE WILL DISCOVER
WILL BE THAT THEY ARE A MIXTURE OF BASE METAL AND DROSS (JEREMI...
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IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES
THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1).
Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had
given the reas...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
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Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
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_The bellows are burnt._
THE BELLOWS BURNT
Apply to--
I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people
were impressed. So also with Noah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus
Himself....
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REFUSE SILVER
Refuse silver. Jeremiah 6:30.
“Refuse silver!” What did the prophet Jeremiah mean by “refuse
silver”? And why did he tell the people of Judah that they were like
refuse silver.
As man...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
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EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
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Ezekiel 22:18; Ezekiel 22:19; Hosea 9:17; Isaiah 1:22; Isaiah 1:25;...
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Refuse — Such as will be rejected in payments....