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The severe sentence passed upon them is the consequence of idolatry
persisted in through many generations until it has finally deepened
into national apostasy....
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THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT
OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17)
CHAPTER 16
_ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _
2. The coming days of...
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JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR
SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming
sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
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NOT KEPT MY LAW. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20). App-92....
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Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness
of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well
as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
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See introd. summary to section....
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B. Instructions for the Prophet Jeremiah 16:10-13
TRANSLATION
(10) And it shall come to pass when you declare to this people all
these things that they will say unto you: For what reason does the
LOR...
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Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me,
saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served
them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have...
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1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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וְ אָמַרְתָּ֣ אֲלֵיהֶ֗ם עַל֩ אֲשֶׁר
־עָזְב֨וּ...
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The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the
prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism,
commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to
say, h...
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There is a wonderful degree of condescension, implied on the part of
God in what is here said. Where there is an enquiry seriously set up
in the soul, concerning the ways and works of God, in his visi...
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But he then says, _Thou shalt answer them, Because your fathers
forsook me; they went after foreign gods, served and worshipped them;
and me they forsook and my law they kept not, and ye have done wor...
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In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family
relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of
interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely
br...
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THEN SHALT THOU SAY UNTO THEM,.... In answer to their questions; not
in a general way, but by observing to them particular sins, and those
gross ones, they had been guilty of:
BECAUSE YOUR FATHERS HA...
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Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me,
saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served
them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have n...
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REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
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then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken Me,
saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, thus habitually
indulging in idolatry, AND HAVE SERVED THEM, AND HAVE WORSHIPED...
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10-13 Here seems to be the language of those who quarrel at the word
of God, and instead of humbling and condemning themselves, justify
themselves, as though God did them wrong. A plain and full answ...
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YOUR FATHERS; the idolatrous kings of Judah that were before
Manasseh's time, since whose time there were hardly forty years yet
elapsed....
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WHAT JEREMIAH IS TO ANSWER ONCE HE HAS GIVEN HIS EXPLANATION AS TO WHY
HE IS ABSTAINING FROM MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE, FROM ALL FORMS OF
MOURNING, AND FROM ALL CELEBRATORY FEASTS (JEREMIAH 16:10).
Wit...
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JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND
FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION
THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS
IN...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming
calamities.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the
backslider in heart with his...
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Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The
prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it
respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter
s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows
that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of
Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses
the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
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Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21.
Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called
him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16:
The word of the LORD came also unto me...
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1 Peter 4:3; Daniel 9:10; Ezekiel 11:21; Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 5:7;...