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Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 7:5-7

A summary of the conditions indispensable on man’s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor.

Jeremiah 7:6

In this place - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent blood shed there judicially. Of one such judicial murder Jehoiakim had already been guilty Jeremiah 26:23.

Jeremiah 7:7

Why then do not the Jews still possess a land thus eternally given them? Because God never bestows anything unconditionally. The land was bestowed upon them by virtue of a covenant Genesis 17:7; the Jews had broken the conditions of this covenant Jeremiah 7:5, and the gift reverted to the original donor.

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See also Jeremiah 7:5-7 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 7:5. _IF YE THROUGHLY AMEND YOUR WAYS_] Literally, _If in_ _making good ye fully make good your ways_. God will no longer admit of _half-hearted_ work. _Semblances_ of piety cannot dece...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TEMPLE SERMON. The prophet is sent to the gate of the Temple, to rebuke the false confidence of Yahweh's worshippers in the possession of this block of buildings (these, Jeremiah 7:4). Yahweh desi...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAN. Hebrew. _'ish_. App-14....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. PRESUMPTUOUS WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:3-15 The men of Judah, like the majority of all ages, took worship for granted. They were content simply to show up at the Temple and participate in the prescribed r...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; FOR - But (Maurer). EXECUTE JUDGMENT - justice ()....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    7:5 justice (d-15) Elsewhere 'judgment.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A MAN AND HIS NEIGHBOUR. — The Jewish idiom for the English “one man and another.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֤י אִם ־הֵיטֵיב֙ תֵּיטִ֔יבוּ אֶת ־דַּרְכֵיכֶ֖ם...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

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

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It appears by the subject of the Prophet's sermon, that the men of Judah, while destitute of vital godliness, were much taken up with the form of it: and though without the love of God in their heart,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Interpreters do not agree as to the meaning of this passage. Some render כי אם, _ki am_, “But rather, “or, “But.” I indeed allow that it is so taken in many places; but they are mistaken who read כי א...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR IF YE THOROUGHLY AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS,.... Or, "if ye make your ways good, and do your works well", which is what is exhorted to Jeremiah 7:3, and respects the duties of the moral law;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; Ver. 5. _For if ye thoroughly amend your ways._] If ye thoroughly execute judgme...

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

    _For if ye thoroughly amend your ways_, &c. In these verses the prophet tells them particularly what the amendment was which was necessary that they might escape destruction. It must be a thorough ame...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings, making a decided stand for a behavior in complete accordance with the holy will of God; IF YE THROUGHLY EXECUTE JUDGMENT BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS NEIG...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the prac...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    He tells them, it is not their vain confidence in their privileges, and boasting of the temple, but only their serious and thorough repentance in turning to God, both in point of piety and equity, tha...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 7:5 thoroughly H3190 (H8687) amend H3190 (H8686) ways H1870 doings H4611 thoroughly H6213 (H8800) execute...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDAH MUST NOT TRUST IN THE PRESENCE OF THE TEMPLE FOR SECURITY BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THEIR EVIL WAYS YHWH INTENDS TO DO TO THE TEMPLE WHAT HE DID TO HIS HOUSE AT SHILOH, DESTROY IT (JEREMIAH 7:1). A...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 7:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that ente...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If ye thoroughly amend._ THOROUGH AMENDMENT 1. Religion has to do with character and conduct. Religion is that which “binds,” and it has a tremendous grip. It has to do not only with creeds, and fo...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Stand in the gate. .. and proclaim._ BOLDNESS IN PREACHING Some preachers are traders from port to port, following the customary and approved course; others adventure over the whole ocean of human c...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 6:12; 1 Kings 6:13; Ezekiel 18:17; Ezekiel 18:8; Isaiah 1:19;...

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