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CHAPTER 26
Threatened with Death and His Deliverance
_ 1. The temple like Shiloh, and Jerusalem to be a curse (Jeremiah
26:1) _
2. Threatened with death (Jeremiah 26:8)
3. Jeremiah's defense ...
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JEREMIAH 26. DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE FORETOLD: JEREMIAH'S PERIL (608
B.C.). Jeremiah is told to proclaim in the Temple (_cf._ Jeremiah
19:14; probably at some festival) a perilous message (keep not...
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UNTO. One school of Massorites (App-30) reads "concerning".
THOU SHALT SURELY DIE. This was in accordance with Deuteronomy 18:20,
as they would not believe that Jehovah could send such. message..
refe...
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See introd. summary to ch....
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_Thou shalt surely die_ That prophet who spoke without God's command
was according to Deuteronomy 18:20 to be put to death. The charge
against Jeremiah then was of this nature, and the alleged proof,...
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3. _An angry response_ (Jeremiah 26:7-10)
Those who were assembled in the court of the Temple that day listened
sullenly and indignantly as the mighty man of God delivered the word
(Jeremiah 26:7). Th...
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I. THE ARREST AND TRIAL OF THE PROPHET Jeremiah 26:1-24
The faithful proclamation of the word of God is dangerous business.
Amos, the prophet from Tekoa, was openly rebuked by Amaziah the high
priest...
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PART THREE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
JEREMIAH FACES OPPOSITION
Jeremiah 26:1 to Jeremiah 29:32
The material in Chapter s 26-29 is primarily biographical in character
and written in the third person. Some aut...
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Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all
that the LORD had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the
priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying,...
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A prophet speaking without God's command was to be put to death
(Deuteronomy 18:20). This was the charge against Jeremiah, and the
alleged proof was that God could not permit such a calamity to fall o...
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JEREMIAH'S FIFTEENTH PROPHECY (EARLY IN THE REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM)
For Jeremiah 26:1 see intro. to Jeremiah 7-10. This chapter gives us a
sketch of the difficulties and dangers under which Jeremiah had...
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THOU SHALT SURELY DIE. — Better, as expressing the Hebrew emphasis
of reduplication, _Thou shalt die the death._ The phrase is the same
as in Genesis 2:17. The threat of the men of Anathoth (Jeremiah...
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וַ יְהִ֣י ׀ כְּ כַלֹּ֣ות יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ
לְ דַבּ
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Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1
In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is
plainly a fin
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UNGRATEFUL FORGETFULNESS
Jeremiah 2:1-8; Jeremiah 26:1-24; Jeremiah 27:1-22; Jeremiah 28:1-17;
Jeremiah 29:1-32; Jeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44
God regarded
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Once again Jeremiah repeated a previous message, one delivered yet
earlier, "in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim." He had then
been instructed to stand in the court of the Lord's house, and del...
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Death. The pretext was plausible, as God seemed to have promised the
temple an eternal duration, 3 Kings ix. 3. The Jews accused Christ of
the like crime, Matthew xxvi. 61. Such questions were brought...
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Is there anything new or wonderful in this? What servant, what
Prophet, what Apostle, eminent in their Lord's service, but hath been
brought into the same situation. Nay, what was the Lord himself, wh...
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He says at last, that he was _condemned by the priests, and the
prophets, and the whole people; _he at the same time introduced these
words, that he had _spoken all that the Lord had commanded _him. T...
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Chapter 26 begins this series of details with a prophecy of the
commencement of Jehoiakim's reign. The people are warned, as being
already in sin, that if they repent, they shall escape. We have
const...
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NOW IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JEREMIAH HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING,....
For they let him alone till he had done, either out of reverence of
him as a priest and prophet; or they were awed by a secret influ...
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_Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all
that the LORD had commanded [him] to speak unto all the people, that
the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, sayin...
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_The priests and prophets took him_, &c. As a disturber of the
government, and a discourager of the people from defending their
country against the enemy, in prophesying that the temple and city of
Je...
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Now, it came to pass when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all
that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the
priests, those whose division was on duty at that time, AND TH...
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THE FIRST PROPHECY AND ITS EFFECT...
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7-15 The priests and prophets charged Jeremiah as deserving death,
and bore false witness against him. The elders of Israel came to
inquire into this matter. Jeremiah declares that the Lord sent him...
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Either they had a reverence for the prophet, or the terror of God fell
upon them, so as they did not interrupt him till he had fully
despatched his errand. Then the chief of the priests, with the
assi...
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Jeremiah 26:8 Jeremiah H3414 end H3615 (H8763) speaking H1696 (H8763)
LORD H3068 commanded H6680 (H8765) speak...
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SECTION 2 SUBSECTION 1 COMMENCING WITH A SPEECH IN THE TEMPLE JEREMIAH
WARNS OF WHAT IS COMING AND REPUDIATES THE PROMISES OF THE FALSE
PROPHETS, AND WHILE OPPOSED BY THE HIERARCHY, HAS HIS OWN STATUS...
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A). JEREMIAH DECLARES IN THE TEMPLE THAT IF JUDAH WILL NOT REPENT
THEIR SANCTUARY WILL END UP LIKE THAT AT SHILOH, WHICH WAS DESTROYED
BY THE PHILISTINES, AND THEIR CITY WILL BE SUBJECT TO YHWH'S CURS...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple court. Spiteful treatment of Jeremiah
and his brave stand. Martyrdom of Urijah.
CHARACTERS: Jehoiakim, Jeremiah, Micah, Hezekiah, Urijah, Elnathan,
Ahikam.
CONCLUSION:...
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Jeremiah 26:1. _In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim._ See the
note on Jeremiah 26:3.
Jeremiah 26:2. _Stand in the court of the Lord's house._ See the note
on...
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_When Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had
commanded him, the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die._
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A TRUE PROPHET
I. The true prophet has a st...
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_In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of
Judah._
AFFLICTIONS, DISTRESSES, TUMULTS
Jehoiakim was, perhaps, the most despicable of the kings of Judah.
Josephus says that he was...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. About
three years earlier than the prophecy of preceding chapter. _Cf_.
chapter 7 with this, and it is evident that they are synchronous.
E...
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JEREMIAH'S TRIAL AND DELIVERANCE.
EXPOSITION
The prophecy in Jeremiah 26:2 is a summary of that contained in
Jeremiah 7:1; the narrative, which stands in no connection either with...
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Jer 26:1-24 through 30.
In the twenty-second chapter of Jeremiah the Lord had ordered Jeremiah
to go to the king's house, Zedekiah, and prophesy unto him. So these
prophecies were those that Jeremiah...
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2 Chronicles 36:16; Acts 5:33; Acts 7:52; Jeremiah 11:19; Jeremia