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The proof of the hopeless immorality of the people is this, that they
worship pagan deities
(1) generally in the cities of Judah, and not in the capital only; and
(2) publicly in the streets of Jeru...
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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
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THE WORSHIP OF ASTARTE. The prophet is forbidden to intercede for a
people who are even now worshipping other gods, to their own deserved
ruin. The cult (p. 99) described in Jeremiah 7:18 (and more fu...
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See introd. note on the section and cp. Jeremiah 15:1. It is hardly
probable that this formed part of Jeremiah's address, seeing that it
gives us in fact Jehovah's words to His prophet abruptly insert...
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II. PAGAN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:16-20
The worship in Jerusalem was so corrupt that God instructs Jeremiah to
cease interceding for the apostates (Jeremiah 7:16). The depravity of
the nation is further de...
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Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem?
SEEST THOU NOT WHAT THEY DO - Yahweh leaves it to Jeremiah himself to
decide, is there not good reason that pray...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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SEEST THOU NOT...? — We enter on one of the darker regions of Jewish
idolatry, such as Ezekiel (Jeremiah 8) saw in vision. A foreign
worship of the basest kind was practised, not only in secret, but i...
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הַֽ אֵינְךָ֣ רֹאֶ֔ה מָ֛ה הֵ֥מָּה
עֹשִׂ֖ים בְּ
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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
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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...
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Here is a very solemn scripture indeed, in which the Lord forbids his
servant even to pray for the people. And there is another solemn
scripture suitable to be read together, Ezekiel 16:42. When the L...
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Here God shews first why he ought to be implacable towards the people:
for the command to the Prophet not to pray for them seems at the first
hearing to be very severe; and it might have been objected...
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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...
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SEEST THOU NOT WHAT THEY DO IN THE CITIES JUDAH,.... Not in one city
only, but in all of and particularly the chief of them; as follows:
AND IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM? these words, with what is sai...
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_Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem?_
Ver. 17. _Seest thou not what they do?_] _a_ And hast thou yet a heart
to pray for them? and should I yet have a...
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_Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah_ Thou canst not
pass along the streets, but thou must needs be an eye witness of their
abominations, committed openly and publicly in the face of th...
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Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets
of Jerusalem? The wickedness which Jeremiah was obliged to witness
wherever he looked was bound to convince him that the course of...
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THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
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17-20 The Jews took pride in showing zeal for their idols. Let us
learn to be earnest in the service of our God, even from this bad
example. Let us think it an honour to be employed in any work for G...
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q.d. How canst thou pass along the streets but thou must needs be an
eye witness of their abominations, to thy no small trouble and sorrow?
as Sodom was to Lot, 2 PETER 2:8; therefore how canst thou p...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Seest thou not what they do in the streets of Jerusalem?_
THE STREETS OF THE CITY
I. As an index to character.
1. The streets are the pulse of commercial prosperity. The man who
goes from a dull,...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ezekiel 14:23; Ezekiel 8:6; Jeremiah 6:27...