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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 23:25

In Deuteronomy 13:1 “a dreamer of dreams” is used in a bad sense, and with reason. God communicating His will by dreams was a thing too easy to counterfeit for it not to be misused.

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See also Jeremiah 23:25 in other biblical comments:

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I HAVE DREAMED. Thus catching the people's ears. Note Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I have dreamed, I have dreamed_ These were the words with which they caught the ear of the crowd, and so gained a sure hearing for their pretended revelations. But another kind of test was needed (se...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. THE PROPHETS ... PROPHESY LIES ... SAYING, I HAVE DREAMED - I have received a prophetic com...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-4. A remnant shall return....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    I HAVE DREAMED] By repeating this formula they caught the ear of the crowd....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE DREAMED... — The words point to the form of the claim commonly made by the false prophets. Dreams took their place among the recognised channels of divine revelation (Genesis 40:8; Genesis 41:1...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שָׁמַ֗עְתִּי אֵ֤ת אֲשֶׁר ־אָֽמְרוּ֙ הַ נְּבִאִ֔ים...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I (t) have dreamed, I have dreamed. (t) I have a prophecy revealed to me as in (Numbers 12:6)....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah returns again to those impostors who soothed the people with their blandishments. Whenever Jeremiah and those who were like him, who faithfully performed their office, treated the people with...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE HEARD WHAT THE PROPHETS SAID, THAT PROPHESY LIES IN MY NAME,.... Or, "I hear what the prophets say" g, c. though they thought God was at a distance from them, in the highest heavens, and neithe...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed. Ver. 25. _I have dreamed, I have dreamed,_] _i.e., _ I have a prophetic revelation in a dre...

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

    _I have heard what the prophets say_, &c. I am perfectly acquainted with what these prophets have thought and said, though they think I take no notice of it, and so continue to act the same counterfei...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I have heard what the prophets said that prophesy lies in My name saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed, offering the dross of their own imagination instead of the gold of God's Word....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    _ Visions and dreams_ were two usual ways by which under the law God made himself known of old to his prophets, making them sometimes, being awake, to hear a voice; sometimes attended with, and procee...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 23:25 heard H8085 (H8804) prophets H5030 said H559 (H8804) prophesy H5012 (H8737) lies H8267 name...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 4:5; Genesis 37:5; Genesis 37:9; Hebrews 4:13; Jer

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