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THEY SHOULD HAVE TURNED THEM ... - The work of the true prophet, which
is to turn men from evil unto good....
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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...
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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)...
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BUT IF, &C. The Hebrew accent requires the rendering: "But, had they
stood in My Council: then they would have made My People hear My
words, and they would have turned", &c....
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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...
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See introd. summary to section. Here we again take up the thought of
Jeremiah 23:18....
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_my council_ See Jeremiah 23:18....
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2. _The message of the fake prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:16-22)
TRANSLATION
(16) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not hearken to the words of the
prophets who are prophesying to you. They are causing you to...
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But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear
my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and
from the evil of their doings.
IF THEY HAD STOOD IN MY CO...
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23:22 had (c-10) Or 'counsel, then would they have.'...
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1-4. A remnant shall return....
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IF THEY HAD STOOD IN MY COUNSEL. — Better, as before, _council._ The
test of the true mission is seen in results. Are the people better or
worse for the prophet’s work? What are the fruits of his teac...
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וְ אִֽם ־עָמְד֖וּ בְּ סֹודִ֑י וְ
יַשְׁמִ֤עוּ
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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...
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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...
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But if they had stood in my counsel, and (r) had caused my people to
hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way,
and from the evil of their doings.
(r) He shows the differen...
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_I should. Some copies read avertissent, "they would have turned,"
conformably with the Hebrew, &c., and we should suspect that this was
a mistake of the transcriber, if St. Jerome did not agree with...
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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...
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This verse is as it were an explanation of the former; for many might
have been perplexed, if it had only been said to them, that there are
none who are fit and legitimate teachers but those who had b...
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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...
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BUT IF THEY HAD STOOD IN MY COUNSEL,.... As they boasted they did; or,
as they reproached the true prophets, and charged them with vanity and
arrogance, in talking as if they had; had this been truly...
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But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear
my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and
from the evil of their doings.
Ver. 22. _But if they had sto...
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_I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran_ They were always ready
to bring you pleasing tidings as from me, though I had given them no
commission so to do, or revealed any thing to them. _But if t...
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But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear
My words, proclaiming them as they were truly revealed, THEN THEY
SHOULD HAVE TURNED THEM FROM THEIR EVIL WAY AND FROM THE EVIL OF...
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AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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9-22 The false prophets of Samaria had deluded the Israelites into
idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem as
guilty of more horrible wickedness, by which the people were...
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These false prophets did not prophesy without the approbation of the
rulers of the ecclesiastical state amongst the Jews in their corrupt
state, but so they might, and yet not be sent of God. The judg...
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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...
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2). YHWH CALUMNIATES THE FALSE PROPHETS AND QUESTIONS WHAT THEY TEACH,
EXPLAINING WHAT THE RESULTS OF THEIR PROPHESYING WILL BE, AND
EMPHASISING THAT THEY WERE NOT SENT OR ENLIGHTENED BY HIM (JEREMIAH...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken them,
yet they prophesied._
A DIVINE CALL INDISPENSABLE TO THE SUCCESS OF A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL
I. A Divine call is necessary to wa...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 23:21 “I DID NOT SEND THE PROPHETS.”
True prophets would have asked the people to repent of their
unfaithfulness.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; Acts
20:27;...