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Verse Jeremiah 7:5. _IF YE THROUGHLY AMEND YOUR WAYS_] Literally, _If
in_ _making good ye fully make good your ways_. God will no longer
admit of _half-hearted_ work. _Semblances_ of piety cannot dece...
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A summary of the conditions indispensable on man’s part, before he
can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor.
Jeremiah 7:6
IN THIS PLACE - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent
b...
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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 TEMPLE SERMON. The prophet is sent to the gate of the Temple, to
rebuke the false confidence of Yahweh's worshippers in the possession
of this block of buildings (these, Jeremiah 7:4). Yahweh desi...
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I. PRESUMPTUOUS WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:3-15
The men of Judah, like the majority of all ages, took worship for
granted. They were content simply to show up at the Temple and
participate in the prescribed r...
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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
FOR - But (Maurer).
EXECUTE JUDGMENT - justice ()....
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7:5 justice (d-15) Elsewhere 'judgment.'...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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A MAN AND HIS NEIGHBOUR. — The Jewish idiom for the English “one
man and another.”...
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כִּ֤י אִם ־הֵיטֵיב֙ תֵּיטִ֔יבוּ אֶת
־דַּרְכֵיכֶ֖ם...
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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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It appears by the subject of the Prophet's sermon, that the men of
Judah, while destitute of vital godliness, were much taken up with the
form of it: and though without the love of God in their heart,...
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Interpreters do not agree as to the meaning of this passage. Some
render כי אם, _ki am_, “But rather, “or, “But.” I indeed
allow that it is so taken in many places; but they are mistaken who
read כי א...
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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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FOR IF YE THOROUGHLY AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS,.... Or, "if ye
make your ways good, and do your works well", which is what is
exhorted to Jeremiah 7:3, and respects the duties of the moral law;...
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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly
execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Ver. 5. _For if ye thoroughly amend your ways._] If ye thoroughly
execute judgme...
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_For if ye thoroughly amend your ways_, &c. In these verses the
prophet tells them particularly what the amendment was which was
necessary that they might escape destruction. It must be a thorough
ame...
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For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings, making a decided
stand for a behavior in complete accordance with the holy will of God;
IF YE THROUGHLY EXECUTE JUDGMENT BETWEEN A MAN AND HIS NEIG...
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GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE...
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1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will
profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can
claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the
prac...
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He tells them, it is not their vain confidence in their privileges,
and boasting of the temple, but only their serious and thorough
repentance in turning to God, both in point of piety and equity, tha...
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Jeremiah 7:5 thoroughly H3190 (H8687) amend H3190 (H8686) ways H1870
doings H4611 thoroughly H6213 (H8800) execute...
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JUDAH MUST NOT TRUST IN THE PRESENCE OF THE TEMPLE FOR SECURITY
BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THEIR EVIL WAYS YHWH INTENDS TO DO TO THE
TEMPLE WHAT HE DID TO HIS HOUSE AT SHILOH, DESTROY IT (JEREMIAH 7:1).
A...
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Jeremiah 7:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word,
and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that ente...
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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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_If ye thoroughly amend._
THOROUGH AMENDMENT
1. Religion has to do with character and conduct. Religion is that
which “binds,” and it has a tremendous grip. It has to do not only
with creeds, and fo...
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_Stand in the gate. .. and proclaim._
BOLDNESS IN PREACHING
Some preachers are traders from port to port, following the customary
and approved course; others adventure over the whole ocean of human
c...
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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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1 Kings 6:12; 1 Kings 6:13; Ezekiel 18:17; Ezekiel 18:8; Isaiah 1:19;...