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When men act as in Jeremiah 8:4, why is God’s own people alone an
exception?
SLIDDEN BACK ... BACKSLIDING - The same words as “turn” and
“return” in Jeremiah 8:4. They should be rendered, “Why doth
th...
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CHAPTER 8
_ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _
2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4)
3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13)
4. The prophet's lamentation ...
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JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something
unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no
inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...
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Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of
sin
The section may be thus summarized.
(i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to
change, but Israel...
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_slidden back … backsliding … return_ All three expressions are
from the same root; "_turn back … backturning … to return_....
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DISCOURSE: 1041
EXPOSTULATION WITH THE IMPENITENT
Jeremiah 8:4. Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall
they fall, and not arise? Shall he turn away, and not return? Why then
is this peop...
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CHAPTER EIGHT
SERMONS FROM THE EARLY REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM
Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 10:25
The oracles in Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 1
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Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
WHY THEN IS THIS PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM SLIDDEN BACK BY A PERPETUAL
BACKSLID...
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1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
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SLIDDEN BACK... BACKSLIDING. — The English fails to give the full
emphasis of the re-iteration of the same word as in the previous
verse. _Why doth this people of Jerusalem turn away with a perpetual...
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מַדּ֨וּעַ שֹׁובְבָ֜ה הָ עָ֥ם הַ זֶּ֛ה
יְרוּשׁ
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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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FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE
Jeremiah 8:4-22
This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and
infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the
fight, so were the people set...
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Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen
rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the
people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
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Was there ever a more beautiful figure chosen to depicture the extreme
folly of the human understanding, than in the contrast here drawn
between the inconsiderateness of man, and the thoughtfulness of...
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Whoever will impartially consider the discourse of the Prophet must
see that this is the real meaning; for, in the second of these verses,
he says, _Why is this people of Jerusalem, etc_. ; he now fir...
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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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WHY THEN IS THIS PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM SLIDDEN BACK BY A PERPETUAL
BACKSLIDING?.... These people fill into sin, and rise not again by
repentance; they turn out of the good ways of God and religion, and...
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Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
Ver. 5. _Why then is this people of Jerusalem? &c._] Why else but
because...
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_Moreover, thou shalt say_, &c. The prophet is here directed to set
before the Jews the unreasonableness and folly of their impenitence,
which was the thing that brought this ruin upon them. And he
re...
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Why, then, is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding? Why do they persist so obstinately in their perverse
ways? THEY HOLD FAST DECEIT, clinging to their hypocritical behavio...
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THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...
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4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to
reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common
prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that le...
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BY A PERPETUAL BACKSLIDING: either a universal backsliding; or rather,
obstinately resolved to hold on, though they see they are out of the
way; not out of levity or inconsiderateness. The Hebrew word...
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YHWH EXPRESSES AMAZEMENT AT THE UNWILLINGNESS OF HIS PEOPLE TO RETURN
TO HIM, AND THEIR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HIS REQUIREMENTS, AND WARNS
THEM THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING (JEREMIA...
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Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
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Jeremiah 8:1. At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bon...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments
impending.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of
man cannot serve to k...
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Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in
the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
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_They hold fast deceit._
ON THE DECEITFULNESS OF THE HEART IN STIFLING CONVICTIONS
These words, as immediately referring to the people of Judah, might
denote their preposterous confidence in the assi...
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_Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual
backsliding._
A GREAT EVIL AND AN URGENT QUESTION
I. A great evil. “Backsliding.”
1. It is an evil in its nature; it is a great sin...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap.
7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic
address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 8:1
Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been
deceased.
JEREMIAH 8:1
THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies
remain unbur...
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At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inha...
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1 Thessalonians 5:21; 2 Thessalonians 2:9; Hebrews 12:25; Hosea 11:7;...
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Deceit — Their false prophets, encouraging themselves in their
wickedness, and pleasing themselves, that their miseries should not
come upon them....