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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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EVERLASTING... PERPETUAL. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the
Whole), for. part of time. life long. Limited here by the promised
Restoration....
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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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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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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 I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual
shame, which shall not be forgotten.
NOT BE FORGOTTEN. If we translate as the English version, the
antithesis is, though I forget...
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1-4. A remnant shall return....
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וְ נָתַתִּ֥י עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם חֶרְפַּ֣ת
עֹולָ֑ם וּ כ
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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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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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REFLECTIONS
READER! while this Chapter in the awful close of it, holds forth most
powerful instructions concerning true and false teachers in the Church
of God; and which are in themselves enough to c...
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What is here contained is, that though the Jews justly gloried for a
time in being the peculiar people of God, yet this would avail them
nothing, as they had divested themselves of that honor in which...
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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 I WILL BRING AN EVERLASTING REPROACH UPON YOU,.... Which was a
just retaliation for reproaching, vilifying, and bantering his word:
they who had been honoured so much and so long as the people of...
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And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual
shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Ver. 40. _And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you._]
Contempt of the Word is such an...
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AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you and a perpetual
shame, namely, on the part of all her enemies and all the witnesses of
her downfall, WHICH SHALL NOT BE FORGOTTEN. A similar fate awai...
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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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And you shall be a reproach, and that not for a few days, but for
ever; and a penal shame, which neither you nor those that see or hear
of it shall forget. See such expressions JEREMIAH 20:11....
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Jeremiah 23:40 bring H5414 (H8804) everlasting H5769 reproach H2781
perpetual H5769 shame H3640 forgotten H7911 (H8
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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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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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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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_Because ye say this word, The burden of the Lord._
SINS OF THE TONGUE
Great part of the prophetical writings is occupied with denunciations
of vengeance on the Jews, for their obstinacy, ingratitude...
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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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Daniel 12:2; Daniel 9:16; Deuteronomy 28:37; Ezekiel 5:14; Ezekiel 5:1