Jeremiah 23:1-40
1-4. A remnant shall return.... [ Continue Reading ]
1-4. A remnant shall return.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PASTORS] i.e. the rulers of Judah.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHEPHERDS] e.g. Ezra, Nehemiah, etc. 5-8. Promise of the Messiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
BRANCH] rather, 'sprout,' 'shoot,' that which is immediately connected with the root, and contains, as it were, the springs of life. So in Jeremiah 33:15, and in later time Zechariah 3:8; Zechariah 6:12. On the other hand, the word in Isaiah 11:1 denotes 'branch,' properly so called. The v. predicts... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS] RV 'The Lord is our righteousness.' The coming king shall be a righteous ruler, whose reign shall be marked by absolute justice; He shall be called Jehovah-Tsidkenu ('The Lord is our righteousness'); and His name shall be the sign that God will make His people righteous:... [ Continue Reading ]
SWEARING] RM 'the curse' (of God). PLEASANT PLACES] RV 'pastures.' COURSE] manner of life. FORCE] exercise of power. 13, SAMARIA] the northern kingdom. IN BAAL] i.e. the name of Baal.... [ Continue Reading ]
The representatives of God encourage evil doers by their own misdeeds.... [ Continue Reading ]
These false prophets promised deliverance from Babylon.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHO HATH STOOD, etc.] meaning that at any rate these false prophets had not done so.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSIDER] RV 'understand.'... [ Continue Reading ]
YET THEY RAN] as if appointed.... [ Continue Reading ]
Think you that My knowledge is subject to human limitations? These men do not deceive Me as they do the people.... [ Continue Reading ]
I HAVE DREAMED] By repeating this formula they caught the ear of the crowd.... [ Continue Reading ]
The contrast between true and false prophecy. God's word contains nourishment and life. Other words are but as chaff, or, rather, straw.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIRE] which consumes the dross. 30, 31. The false prophets steal the phrases of the true, e.g. 'He saith.'... [ Continue Reading ]
LIGHTNESS] RV 'vain boasting.'... [ Continue Reading ]
They ask jestingly of Jeremiah, What is thy latest message for us? what is the burdensome oracle of the Lord? 'Burden' was often used in this sense: cp. Nahum 1:1; Habakkuk 1:1; Zechariah 9. WHAT.. burden] LXX 'ye are the burden.' 34, 35. The misused phrase 'the burden of the Lord 'is to be used no... [ Continue Reading ]
Every man's burden shall be his use of the word. For he who has jokingly enquired after the 'burden of the Lord' shall find that those lightly spoken words of his are in very deed a load upon him. PERVERTED] used jestingly.... [ Continue Reading ]