Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 7:24
Imagination - Better, as in the margin.
And went backward - literally, as in the margin; i. e., they turned their back upon Me to follow their own devices.
Imagination - Better, as in the margin.
And went backward - literally, as in the margin; i. e., they turned their back upon Me to follow their own devices.
THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9) CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _ 2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16) 3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
OBEDIENCE NECESSARY, NOT SACRIFICE. Yahweh scornfully tells these formal worshippers to eat even the burnt-offering (wholly offered to God), as well as the peace-offering (which was eaten by the worsh...
IMAGINATION. See note on Jeremiah 3:17....
See introd. note on the section....
_in_their own _counsels_ lit. _in counsels_. The words are best omitted (with LXX). _stubbornness_ Cp. Jeremiah 3:17....
AND WENT BACKWARD, &C.— _And they turned from me, and not towards me,_ (Jeremiah 7:25.). _Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt, unto this day. And I sent unto them,_ &c....
B. Persistent Obstinacy Jeremiah 7:24-28 TRANSLATION (24) But they would not hearken and they did not stretch out the ear but walked in the counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart and th...
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. HEARKENED NOT - they did not give even a...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
IMAGINATION] see on Isaiah 3:17; 27. Jeremiah need not therefore expect that his words will be heeded. 29-34. Where they sinned there shall they be punished....
IMAGINATION. — Better, _stubbornness,_ as in Jeremiah 3:17. WENT BACKWARD AND NOT FORWARD. — The whole sacrificial system, even at its best, to say nothing of its idolatrous corruptions, was according...
וְ לֹ֤א שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ וְ לֹֽא ־הִטּ֣וּ אֶת
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
I pause, not to interrupt the Reader in the progress of these verses, they are all to the same amount as the former. How pathetically the Prophet mourns the obstinacy of his people! Surely ministers o...
_They hearkened not nor inclined their ear _Here the Prophet shews, that the Jews did not then begin to be rebellious against God and his word; for they imitated the impious contumacy of their fathers...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR,.... Neither to the law that was given them, nor to the promises that were made unto them, this was the case of the Jewish fathers, and also of their pos...
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. Ver. 24. _But they hearkened not, nor incl...
_Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel_ And let Israel hear when their God speaks _Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh_ The burnt-offerings, after they were flayed,...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
But they hearkened not, they ignored the Lord and His precepts entirely, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR, they did not even attempt to listen, BUT WALKED IN THE COUNSELS AND IN THE IMAGINATION, the stubbornnes...
IMAGINATION: Or, stubbornness WENT: _ Heb._ were...
21-28 God shows that obedience was required of them. That which God commanded was, Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God. The promise is very encouraging. Let God's will be your rule, an...
NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR: it notes something of a higher degree of non-attention than bare not hearkening, viz. their not listening that they might obey what they hear, JEREMIAH 7:26, JEREMIAH 11:8, not...
Jeremiah 7:24 obey H8085 (H8804) incline H5186 (H8689) ear H241 followed H3212 (H8799) counsels H4156 dictates...
YHWH EXPLAINS TO JEREMIAH WHY HE SEES HIS PEOPLE AS HAVING GONE BEYOND WHAT WAS ACCEPTABLE, AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MUST INEVITABLY BE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY REFUSED TO HEAR HIS VOICE (JEREMI...
Jeremiah 7:21. _Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I b...
CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming desolations because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast themselves...
Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
_Went backward, and not forward._ BACKWARD I. Illustrations of going backward in regard to religion. 1. From Jewish history. Compare best days of Solomon, when temple was dedicated, with these when...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:1 False Religion and an Idolatrous People. These chapters give evidence of the truth of God’s accusations in chs. Jeremiah 2:1. Judah takes com
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_ regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in r...
Deuteronomy 29:19; Exodus 32:7; Exodus 32:8; Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekie