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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 23:28

Verse Jeremiah 23:28. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord.] Do not mingle these equivocal matters with positive revelations. Do not consider a dream, even from a prophet, as that positive inspiration which my prophets receive when their reason, judgment, and spiritual feelings are all in full and in regular exercise. Mix none of your own devices with my doctrines.

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See also Jeremiah 23:28 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A DREAM ... FAITHFULLY - Rather, as “a dream”... as truth. The dream is but a dream, and is to be told as such, but God’s word is to be spoken as certain and absolute truth. The dreams are the chaff,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HE THAT HATH, &C. Compare Ezekiel 13:7. CHAFF. crushed, or chopped straw. Hebrew. _teben._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Mere dreams and the truth of God are to be kept asunder. _What is the straw to the wheat?_ God's word contains nourishment and life. Other words are but as straw....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1062 FIDELITY REQUIRED IN MINISTERS Jeremiah 23:28, _He that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord. Is not my word like as fire? sa...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THE PROPHET THAT HATH A DREAM— "Let him propose his dream to those who are truly inspired, that they may judge whether the dream is from God, and that they may not give out simple dreams and vain imag...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. _The methods of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:23-32) TRANSLATION (23) Am I a God near at hand (oracle of the LORD), and not a God far off? (24) Can a man hide himself in secret places that I am...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. THE PROPHET THAT HATH A DREAM, LET H...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-4. A remnant shall return....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The contrast between true and false prophecy. God's word contains nourishment and life. Other words are but as chaff, or, rather, straw....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET HIM TELL A DREAM. — The point of the words lies in the contrast between the real and the counterfeit revelation. Let the dreamer tell his dream as such, let the prophet speak the word of Jehovah t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ נָּבִ֞יא אֲשֶׁר ־אִתֹּ֤ו חֲלֹום֙ יְסַפֵּ֣ר...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    The prophet that hath a dream, let him (x) tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. (y) What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. (x) Let the false prophet de...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dream, to those who are really sent by God, (Calmet) and recognized, 1 Corinthians xiv. 29. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    We ought also to read this verse attentively, for doubtless it contains a doctrine especially useful. I have already said, that the faith of many might have failed at seeing a conflict in the Temple o...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE PROPHET THAT HATH A DREAM, LET HIM TELL A DREAM,.... These words are directed not to a true prophet of the Lord, that has a dream from him, or something communicated to him in a dream by the Lord,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What [is] the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Ver. 28. _The prophet that hath a dr...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream_ Or, as some render it, _let him tell it as a dream._ Let him lay no more stress upon it than men do upon their dreams, nor expect any more regard t...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream, frankly relating it as such, without indulging in extravagant assertions; AND HE THAT HATH MY WORD, being entrusted with its proclamation, LET HIM...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THAT HATH A DREAM: _ Heb._ with whom is...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-32 Men cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves? Let them consider what a vast difference there is between these prophecies and th...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A DREAM; not a Divine dream; a revelation which I have made to him in his sleep (as appeareth by the following opposition, betwixt a _dream_ and the _word of the Lord_); but if any man hath dreamed an...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 23:28 prophet H5030 dream H2472 tell H5608 (H8762) dream H2472 word H1697 speak H1696 (H8762) word...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH REJECTS THE TESTIMONY OF THE FALSE JERUSALEM PROPHETS AND REVEALS HIMSELF AS THE ALL-KNOWING ONE), CONDEMNING THE TEMPLE PROPHETS AS FALSE DREAMERS WHO CAUSE THE PEOPLE TO ERR. THEY ARE IN DIRECT...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 23:28 I. The human dream is empty, but the Divine word is substantial. Chaff is a mere husk, but wheat is all grain. So the antagonists of the Bible deal in vague speculations or empty negat...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD._ What a dreadful woe this is upon all false shepherds, those who profess to be sent of God to...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath My Word, let him speak My Word faithfully._ THE WORD AND THE DREAM The prophet here exhibits in contrast Divine teaching and the...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:12; 1 Corinthians 3:13; 1 Corinthians 4:2; 1 Timothy 1:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    What is the wheat — There is as much difference between my will and their dreams, as there is betwixt the chaff and the wheat....

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