Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Jeremiah 7:33
the carcases, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:26).
fray. frighten: from Fr. effrayer.
the carcases, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:26).
fray. frighten: from Fr. effrayer.
Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before t...
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
JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for t...
_fray frighten_. The word is obsolete, except as a provincialism. It is the root of _affray_(participle, _afraid_). Cp. "he thought hir to affraye." Chaucer's _Clerk's Tale_. (_Bible Word-Book_.)...
B. The Future Destruction Jeremiah 7:32 to Jeremiah 8:3 TRANSLATION (32) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it shall no longer be called the Topheth or the valley of the son...
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. FRAY - scare or frighten (this verse is quoted from ). Typ...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
NONE SHALL FRAY THEM AWAY. — No picture could be more appalling in its horrors — streets and valleys filled with the bodies of the slain, vultures and jackals feeding on them, and not one hand raised,...
וְֽ הָ֨יְתָ֜ה נִבְלַ֨ת הָ עָ֤ם הַ זֶּה֙
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
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...
Tophet had been a remarkable place on several occasions. It was called Tophet because it had been a place of slaughter. And it had been a charnel house, or sepulchre for burying in; and also a place o...
Jeremiah threatens them with something more grievous than death itself, — that God would impress the marks of his wrath even on their dead bodies. It is indeed true what a heathen poet says, _“That t...
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...
AND THE CARCASSES OF THIS PEOPLE SHALL BE MEAT FOR THE FOWLS OF THE HEAVEN, AND FOR THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH,.... That is, those which remain unburied, for which there will be found no place to bury th...
And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray [them] away. Ver. 33. _And the carcases of this people,_] _a_ Their mur...
Jer. 7:33. "And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth, and none shall fray them away." As this Tophet here spoken of represents hell, so t...
_It shall be no more called Tophet, but The valley of Slaughter_ King Josiah first of all _defiled_ this place, as the text speaks, 2 Kings 23:10; that is, polluted it by burying dead bodies in it, by...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, the birds of prey, particularly the buzzards, feeding on the unburied corpses, AND FOR THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, AND NONE SHA...
29-34 In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him. The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but...
The _birds_ and _beasts of prey_ shall feed on them, being exposed to open view for want of interment, JEREMIAH 19:7, AND NONE SHALL FRAY THEM AWAY; (a piece of humanity that even nature itself teache...
Jeremiah 7:33 corpses H5038 people H5971 food H3978 birds H5775 heaven H8064 beasts H929 earth H776 frighten H2729 ...
CARCASES See (Jeremiah 19:11); (2 Kings 23:10); (Ezekiel 6:5). Fulfilled in part in all the destructions of Jerusalem, but with a final look toward ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:26; Ezekiel 39:18; Ezekiel 39:4; Jeremiah 12:9;...