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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 1:7

Jeremiah suggested two difficulties, the first inexperience, the second timidity. God now removes the first of these. Inexperience is no obstacle where the duty is simple obedience His timidity is removed by the promise given him in the next verse.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 1:7. _WHATSOEVER I COMMAND THEE_] It is my words and message, not thine own, that thou shalt deliver. I shall teach thee; therefore thy youth and inexperience can be no hinderance....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE CALL TO REPENTANCE, THE IMPENITENCE OF THE PEOPLE, AND THE JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED CHAPTER 1 The Call of the Prophet _ 1. The introduction (Jeremiah 1:1) _ 2. The divin...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PROPHET'S CALL. The account of this should be compared with similar accounts of the calls of other prophets (see Isaiah 6, Ezekiel 1:1 to Ezekiel 3:3; Amos 7:12 ff.) and the characteristic differe...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHATSOEVER. COMMAND, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 22:20). App-92....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Prophet's call and its nature...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jeremiah's call The passage will fall into four sections. (i) Jeremiah 1:4. The prophet's call and its nature. (ii) Jeremiah 1:11. The symbol of the almond tree, shewing that Jehovah is wakeful to p...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Here again there is brought out the contrast between Moses and Jeremiah. The former had offered one objection after another (Exodus 3:11; Exodus 3:13; Exodus 4:1; Exodus 4:10

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. The Divine Assurance Jeremiah 1:7-10 When called of God Moses brought forth excuse after excuse; but Jeremiah only needed encouragement and reassurance. The Lord took steps to give that timid and...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    II. THE CALL EXTENDED Jeremiah 1:4-10 TRANSLATION (4) Then the word of the LORD came unto me saying, (5) Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart; a proph...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. TO ALL THAT - to all to whom (Rosenmuller). Rather...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:7 whomsoever (b-17) Or 'for everything for which.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CALL OF JEREMIAH (13TH YEAR OF JOSIAH). FIRST PROPHECY 1-3. See Introduction....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE LORD SAID UNTO ME. — The misgiving, which was not reluctance, is met by words of encouragement. God gave the work; He would also give the power....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י אַל ־תֹּאמַ֖ר נַ֣ע

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER I THE CALL AND CONSECRATION IN the foregoing pages we have considered the principal events in the life of the prophet Jeremiah, by way of introduction to the more detailed study of his writin...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    COURAGE PROMISED TO A FEARFUL MESSENGER Jeremiah 1:1-19 God has a distinct purpose for each life, and our one aim should be to discover and work out His plan. See Psalms 139:16; Galatians 1:15. The...

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

    The first three verses constitute a title page naming the author and giving the dates of the period during which he exercised his ministry. The Book opens with the account of Jeremiah's call, and at o...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! do not fail to remark, how humbling grace is in the soul. Before the Prophet was conscious of the work wrought in him, the blessed effects were made to appear, in a lowliness suited to the mer...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Now follows the answer given to him, _Say not, I am a child; for thou shalt go, etc_. God not only predicts here what the Prophet was to do, but declares also what he designed him to do, and what he r...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 1 the prophet is established in his office, to which he had been appointed by Jehovah, even before his birth, that he should carry His word unto the nations. But Jeremiah's fears are immedi...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, SAY NOT, I AM A CHILD,.... This excuse will not be admitted: FOR THOU SHALL GO TO ALL THAT I SHALL SEND THEE; either to "every place", as the Targum paraphrases; or "to all...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I [am] a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. Ver. 7. _Say not, I am a child._] Plead no excuses...

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

    _But the Lord said unto me_, &c. God refuses to accept of his excuse, and renews his commission to him to execute the prophetic office. Thus God refused to accept the excuse of Moses, made on a like o...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child, in an effort to make his youth and inexperience an excuse for refusing to follow the Lord's call; FOR THOU SHALL GO TO ALL THAT I SHALL SEND THEE, AND...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CALL AND COMMISSION OF THE PROPHET...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Jeremiah's early call to the work and office of a prophet is stated. He was to be a prophet, not to the Jews only, but to the neighbouring nations. He is still a prophet to the whole world, and...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SAY NOT, I AM A CHILD; do not plead excuses. THOU SHALT GO: this is God's answer to Jeremiah, in respect of his sense of his own inability. This may be by way of command, and then it is a check to his...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 1:7 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) say H559 (H8799) youth H5288 go H3212 (H8799) send...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S INITIAL CALL (JEREMIAH 1:4). YHWH's initial call assures Jeremiah that he had been chosen even before he was born, that he need not be afraid that he was still young and immature (around t...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH SEEKS TO EXCUSE HIMSELF FROM HIS GOD-APPOINTED TASK ONLY TO BE SET RIGHT BY YHWH (JEREMIAH 1:7). Jeremiah diffidently sought to excuse himself from the task to which God was calling him, seei...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 1:6 It is not improbable that Jeremiah was almost a child when he spoke these words. Considering the time to which he lived, he must have been young in the thirteenth year of Josiah, young en...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 1:1 I. (Jeremiah 1:4). The two great blessings of _election_and _mediation_are here distinctly taught. God did not speak to the nations directly, but mediationally. He created a minister who...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 1:1. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Ju...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jeremiah's call and enduement. The sign of the almond rod and seething pot. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Jeremiah, Josiah, Jehoiakim. CONCLUSION: God, by His special counsel and foreknowle...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 1:5. _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ In the creation God knew the nature and designations of every creature, whether of plants, or of living beings. He assigned laws and abod...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee._ Seven points in Jeremiah’s life and call:-- 1. God knowing him. “I knew thee.” 2. God sanctifying him. “I sanctified thee.” 3. God ordaining him. “...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 1:1 Introduction. These verses introduce the book’s historical background (vv. Jeremiah 1:1), Jeremiah’s call and message (vv....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. CHRONOLOGY. Jeremiah 1:1, penned _cir._ B.C. 578; Jeremiah 1:4, _sq._ B.C. 629. But the recently discovered Assyrian chronology would make the date of the “thirteen...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AN ACCOUNT OF THE CALL AND CONSECRATION OF JEREMIAH TO THE PROPHETIC OFFICE, FOLLOWED BY TWO EXPRESSIVE SYMBOLS OF THE...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    At this time shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Jeremiah. About sixty years after Isaiah died, God called Jeremiah to what I feel must have been the hardest task any minister has ever been cal...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 22:14; 2 Chronicles 18:13; Acts 20:27; Exodus 7:1; Exodus 7:2;

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    JEREMIAH, THE WAILING PROPHET Jeremiah 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The ten tribes of Israel had passed into captivity before God called Jeremiah. Judah was following hard in the path of her sister natio...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Thou shalt speak — Fear not, I will make thee eloquent and courageous....

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