A nation - The “nation.” Israel holds so unique a position among all nations that for it to disobey God is marvelous.
Truth ... - Fidelity to God. Though they have the name of Yahweh often upon their lips and swear by Him Jeremiah 5:2, yet it is only profession without practice.
Verse Jeremiah 7:28. _NOR RECEIVETH CORRECTION_] They have profited neither by _mercies_ nor by _judgments_: blessings and corrections have been equally lost upon them....
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...
A. the. OBEYETH. hearkeneth to. CORRECTION: or instruction, or discipline. TRUTH. fidelity, or veracity. THEIR. The Babylonian Codex reads "your"....
See introd. note on the section....
For _And thou shalt speak … say unto them_, LXX has only _And thou shalt say unto them this word_, pointing to a probable amplification on the part of MT....
_the nation_ conspicuous for their disobedience. Cp. Psalms 12:4. _truth_ mg. _faithfulness_. See on ch. Jeremiah 5:3. 29 8:3. See introd. note on the section. The verbs and pronoun are fem. in the...
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 thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. THOU SHALT SAY UNTO T...
7:28 fidelity (b-25) Or 'truth.'...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
BUT THOU SHALT SAY. — Better, _And thou shalt say,_ with an implied “therefore.” THIS IS A NATION. — Better, _This is the nation,_ as pre-eminent in its sin. TRUTH. — Better, as in Jeremiah 7:2, _fa...
וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם זֶ֤ה הַ גֹּוי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣
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...
God shews now that he must act in a new way. The first duty of teachers is to set forth the will of God, to shew what is right, and then to exhort, if plain teaching proves not sufficient. But God int...
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 THOU SHALT SAY UNTO THEM,.... Having found by experience, after long speaking and calling to them, that they are a disobedient and incorrigible people: THIS IS A NATION THAT OBEYETH NOT THE VOICE...
But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Ver. 28. _This is a na...
_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 JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord, their God, being therefore classed with the Gentile nations, NOR RECEIVETH CORRECTION, hardened to the point that...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
CORRECTION: Or, instruction...
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...
THIS IS A NATION THAT OBEYETH NOT THE VOICE OF THE LORD THEIR GOD; spoke in a way of contempt: q.d. A nation more than heathenish; though they profess themselves a peculiar people to me, yet to be num...
Jeremiah 7:28 say H559 (H8804) nation H1471 obey H8085 (H8804) voice H6963 LORD H3068 God H430 receive...
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...
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...
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...
Hosea 4:1; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 1:5; Isaiah 59:14; Isaiah 59:15;...
Cut off — There is no believing them in any thing they say....