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WHILE THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS - Perhaps an allusion to
their sacrifices of children to Moloch. Present perhaps at some such
blood-stained rite, its horrors would be engraven forever upon...
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CHAPTER 17
_ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _
2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5)
3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12)
4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
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JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR
SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming
sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
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CHILDREN. sons.
GROVES _= Asherim_ (plural) See App-42.
THE GREEN TREES. Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "by every
green tree".
UPON. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaea...
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Jeremiah 17:1. See introd. summary to section.
The _vv_. are omitted in LXX, either (as St Jerome suggests) from
unwillingness that the lasting condemnation here expressed should be
put on permanent...
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The text is difficult, and pretty certainly contains some error. Du.
and Co. omit from "whilst their" to "Asherim," as a gloss, introduced
to shew how indelible was Judah's guilt, to be remembered by...
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IV. PROPHETIC SAYINGS Jeremiah 17:1-11
The first eleven verses of chapter 17 contain three independent
sayings of the prophet probably from three different sermons. These
sayings do not seem to have a...
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Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the
green trees upon the high hills.
WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS AND THEIR GROVES -
instead of forsaking the idolatri...
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1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the
punishment....
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GROVES] RV 'Asherim,' wooden pillars, or monuments, set up in honour
of Astoreth (Astarte), generally near altars (e.g. Judges 6:25). The
Law ordered them to be pulled down (Exodus 34:13)....
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WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER... — If we take “children” as
referring to age, there may be a reference to the way in which the
horrors of Molech worship were burnt in upon the minds of boys who
were...
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כִּ זְכֹּ֤ר בְּנֵיהֶם֙
מִזְבְּחֹותָ֔ם וַ אֲשֵׁרֵיהֶ֖ם...
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CHAPTER IX
THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS
Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?)
VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these
Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
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HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED
Jeremiah 17:1-14
The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon.
What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon
human aid, wit...
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Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people
in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That
sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
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(d) While their children remember their altars and their idols by the
green trees upon the high hills.
(d) Some read, "So that their children remember their altars", that
is, follow their father's wi...
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What is here said of Judah's sin, may be equally said of all men's
sins: they are cut in and formed in the very heart. Nothing short of a
new heart, wrought by the Lord himself, can form a change. Eze...
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Interpreters seem not to me to have perceived the design of the
Prophet here, at least they have not clearly explained the subject. He
proceeds, as I think, with what he said at the end of the last ve...
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The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in
Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see
when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and
sho...
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WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS,.... Which is a further
proof of their long continuance in idolatrous practices, and a fresh
witness against them; they trained up their children in them; w...
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Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the
green trees upon the high hills.
Ver. 2. _While their children remember their altars._] Or, As they
remember their children, so the...
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_The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron_ Many of the Jews,
though living in the habitual commission of the grossest crimes, were,
nevertheless, self-righteous, and thought they did not deserve...
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THE REASON FOR JUDAH'S REJECTION...
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whilst their children, the entire nation, REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS AND
THEIR GROVES BY THE GREEN TREES UPON THE HIGH HILLS, that is, they
were so deeply steeped in idolatry that the mere sight of a green...
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1-4 The sins which men commit make little impression on their minds,
yet every sin is marked in the book of God; they are all so graven
upon the table of the heart, that they will all be remembered b...
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This showed how inveterate they were in this sin of idolatry, that
they taught it their children, and their children remembered their
idolatrous altars and the groves where they were wont to worship i...
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Jeremiah 17:2 children H1121 remember H2142 (H8800) altars H4196
images H842 green H7488 trees H6086 high H1364 hil
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THE DEPTHS OF JUDAH'S SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JEREMIAH 17:1).
The thought of what YHWH is going to do in the future brings Jeremiah
back to the present to consider Judah's current state and its
con...
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Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and
with the point of a diamond:_
It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to
erase an inscription that is wr...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the
gates concerning the Sabbath.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and
dece...
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Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea,
it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on
polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 17:1 PEN OF IRON... POINT OF DIAMOND.
These were tools for carving on stone, which is what THEIR HEART has
become. BESIDE EVERY GREEN TREE,...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.
Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in
the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_
se...
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EXPOSITION
Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We
have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of
the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
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Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with
the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1):
Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days,
isn't it? Diamonds set in...
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2 Chronicles 24:18; 2 Chronicles 33:19; 2 Chronicles 33:3; Ezekiel
20:28;...
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Their children — This shewed how inveterate they were in this sin of
idolatry, that they taught it their children....