To the queen of heaven— The queen of heaven was the moon; the same as Astarte or Ashtaroth. The prophet here describes the whole family as busied in preparing their sacrifices and superstitious rites to this idol. Houbigant renders the words other gods, very properly, by strange gods; and Jeremiah 7:19. Do they aggrieve me, saith the Lord, and not themselves [rather], to the confusion of their own faces?
Verse Jeremiah 7:18. _THE CHILDREN GATHER WOOD_] Here is a description of a _whole family_ gathered together, and acting unitedly in idolatrous worship. 1. The _children_ go and collect wood, and bri...
CHILDREN ... FATHERS ... WOMEN - All members of the family take part in this idolatry. CAKES - Probably very similar to those offered at Athens to Artemis. TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN - A Persian and Assy...
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
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...
CHILDREN. sons. MAKE: or, offer. QUEEN. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "worship", which is put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the goddess to whom the worship was...
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...
Both sexes and all ages unite in the public dishonouring of God's name by shameless idolatries. _cakes_ The Hebrew word is of Assyrio-Babylonian origin, and occurs elsewhere only in Jeremiah 44:19, wh...
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...
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provok...
7:18 heaven, (g-23) See ch. 8.2; Judges 2:11 ,Judges 2:13 ....
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
QUEEN OF HEAVEN] identified either with the moon or with the Assyrian Ishtar, the planet Venus. The Jewish women were specially given to that worship, offering incense and cakes stamped with a represe...
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN. — The goddess thus described was a kind of Assyrian Artemis, identified with the moon, and connected with the symbolic worship of the reproductive powers of Nature. Its ritual pro...
הַ בָּנִ֞ים מְלַקְּטִ֣ים עֵצִ֗ים וְ הָֽ אָבֹו
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...
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes to (i) the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me...
_Heaven. That is, the moon, which they worshipped under that name. (Challoner) --- Some understand the sun also the stars, chap. xliv. 17., and Isaias lxv. 11. All the family contributes to promote th...
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...
_The children, _he says, _gather wood _He ascribes the collecting of wood to the young; for it was a more laborious work. As then that age excels in strength, they collected wood; and _the fathers kin...
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...
THE CHILDREN GATHER WOOD,.... In the fields, or out of the neighbouring forest; not little children, but young men, who were able to cut down trees, and bear and carry burdens of wood: AND THE FATHER...
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provo...
_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...
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven, the female goddess Ashtoreth, or Astarte, the counterpart of the male i...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
QUEEN OF HEAVEN: Or, frame, or workmanship of heaven...
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...
Here God shows how busily they are employed from the youngest to the oldest, and how industrious for their idolatry, JEREMIAH 44:1; see MATTHEW 24:38; every one in the family doth somewhat towards it....
Jeremiah 7:18 children H1121 gather H3950 (H8764) wood H6086 fathers H1 kindle H1197 (H8764) fire H784 women...
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...
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...
_The children gather wood._ WHAT CAN CHILDREN DO FOR GOD? I. God is setting up a kingdom in this world. A very glorious and gracious kingdom. 1. Righteousness. Teaches us to do justice. 2. Peace--...
_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,...
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
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...
1 Corinthians 10:22; Deuteronomy 32:37; Deuteronomy 32:38; Deuteronomy 4:19;...
The children — Here God shews how busily they are employed from the youngest to the oldest for their idolatry. The queen — As the sun was looked upon as king, so the moon as the queen of heaven....