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Verse Jeremiah 23:33. _WHAT_ IS _THE BURDEN OF THE LORD?_] The word
משא _massa,_ here used, signifies _burden, oracle, prophetic
discourse_; and is used by almost every prophet. But the persons in
th...
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BURDEN - Here a prophecy, either
(1) as being something weighty: or
(2) a something said aloud.
Isaiah brought the word into general use: Jeremiah never used it,
though his predictions were all of i...
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CHAPTER 23:9-40
Condemnation of the False Prophets
_ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah
23:9) _
2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15)
3. Forgotten and...
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THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to
deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest
(Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
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WHAT BURDEN? Septuagint, Vulgate, and Rashi, read "Ye yourselves are
the burden". Compare Jeremiah 23:36.
FORSAKE. reject....
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_say unto them, What burden!_ mg. (less well) _tell them what the
burden is_, but mg. also suggests that we read, with LXX and Vulg.,
_Ye are the burden_. The change requires only a different division...
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See introd. summary to section. The original word means either a
burden or a prophetic utterance. It would appear that those hostile to
Jeremiah had taken to apply the word derisively to the prophet's...
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Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets
Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we
have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also
grievously misled t...
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WHAT IS THE BURDEN— See Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 13:22. As the scoffers
and infidels make a derision of this term, they are forbidden to
mention it any more as ambiguous; and, instead of inquiring, _What i...
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4. _The mockery of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:33-40)
TRANSLATION
(33) And when this people or the prophet or the priest shall ask you,
What is the burden of the LORD? Then you shall say unto th...
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And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee,
saying, What is the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto them,
What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
WHEN...
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23:33 What (a-26) Or 'Ye are the.'...
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THE BURDEN OF THE LORD. — The English expresses the literal meaning
of the word, “something lifted up, or borne.” It passed, however,
as the English equivalent has done, through many shades of meaning...
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וְ כִי ־יִשְׁאָלְךָ֩ הָ עָ֨ם הַ זֶּ֜ה
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CHAPTER VIII
BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS
Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1
"Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My
pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1
"Of what avail is straw instead...
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Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the
throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been
responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and
p...
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And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee,
saying, What [is] the (b) burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say to
them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
(b)...
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_Burden, Massa, (Haydock) denotes a weight, or sometimes a prediction.
(Calmet)_...
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At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them,
and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set
forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
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It appears sufficiently evident from this passage, — that the
contumacy of the Jews was so great, that they sought from every
quarter some excuse for their insensibility, as though they could with
imp...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23.
On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord
would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the
Spir...
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AND WHEN THIS PEOPLE, OR A PROPHET, OR A PRIEST, SHALL ASK THEE,....
Any of the people, who were grown very profane; or any of the false
prophets, who encouraged them in their irreligion and impiety;...
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And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee,
saying, What [is] the burden of the LORD? thou shalt then say unto
them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
Ver....
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_When this people, or the prophet, &c., shall ask thee_, &c. “The
remaining part of this chapter is directed against those who called
the word of God, spoken by the true prophets, A BURDEN, by way of...
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AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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And when this people or the prophet or a priest, either the common
people or one of their spiritual leaders, SHALL ASK THEE, SAYING, WHAT
IS THE BURDEN OF THE LORD? according to a custom by which the...
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33-40 Those are miserable indeed who are forsaken and forgotten of
God; and men's jesting at God's judgments will not baffle them. God
had taken Israel to be a people near to him, but they shall now b...
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The true prophets, to let the people know how little pleasing it was
to them to be the messengers of God's threatenings, to denounce his
judgments, usually thus began their prophecies of that nature,...
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Jeremiah 23:33 people H5971 prophet H5030 priest H3548 ask H7592
(H8799) saying H559 (H8800) oracle H4853 LORD...
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JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE
PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9).
Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those
who had been distorting that visio...
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BOTH JEREMIAH AND THE FALSE PROPHETS ARE FORBIDDEN TO USE THE PHRASE,
‘THE BURDEN OF YHWH' (JEREMIAH 23:33).
God now puts a blanket ban on speaking of a ‘burden' from YHWH. This
is not just arguing ab...
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CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against
the faithless shepherds.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and
preten...
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Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the
sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28,
because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The
chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in
chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
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EXPOSITION
The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of
discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah,
our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
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Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those
Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the
LORD (Jeremiah 23:1).
God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
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2 Chronicles 15:2; Deuteronomy 31:17; Deuteronomy 31:18; Deuteronomy
32:19;...
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What is — The false prophets, and corrupt priests, would ordinarily
mock the true prophets; and ask them what was the burden of the Lord....