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Silence and desolation are to settle upon the whole land....
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THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9)
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _
2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16)
3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
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JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let
Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by
her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for t...
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THE VOICE OF MIRTH, &C. This refrain is peculiar to Jeremiah. Occurs
four times (here; Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 33:11)
("joy").
FOR THE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE. Reference to Pentateuch ...
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_the voice of the bridegroom, etc_.] Cp. Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah
25:10....
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THEN WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE, &C.— "There shall be no more marriages;
no more shall the voice of mirth and rejoicing be heard; or the sound
of musical instruments, which usually attends this sort of fes...
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B. The Future Destruction Jeremiah 7:32 to Jeremiah 8:3
TRANSLATION
(32) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it
shall no longer be called the Topheth or the valley of the son...
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the
streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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THEN WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE... THE VOICE OF MIRTH. — The special
imagery of the picture of desolation is characteristic of Jeremiah
(Jeremiah 16:9; Jeremiah 25:10; Jeremiah 33:11). No words could paint...
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וְ הִשְׁבַּתִּ֣י ׀ מֵ עָרֵ֣י
יְהוּדָ֗ה וּ מֵֽ
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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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With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet
commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first
denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
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_Bride. None shall think of marrying, (chap. xvi. 9., and xxv. 10.;
Calmet) all being filled with lamentation. (Menochius)_...
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Tophet had been a remarkable place on several occasions. It was called
Tophet because it had been a place of slaughter. And it had been a
charnel house, or sepulchre for burying in; and also a place o...
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REFLECTIONS
I PASS by every other consideration in this Chapter (though there are
many which would be highly profitable to regard) to attend to one, yet
more eminently striking, suggested in meeting t...
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He still continues the same subject; for he denounces on the Jews the
punishment which they had deserved. He more fully expresses what he
mentioned in the last verse respecting the shameful and dreadf...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9.
Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple,
which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without
conscience, wo...
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THEN WILL I CAUSE TO CEASE FROM THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AND FROM THE
STREETS OF JERUSALEM,.... Signifying that the devastation should not
only be in and about Jerusalem, but should reach all over the lan...
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the
streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness,
the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the...
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_It shall be no more called Tophet, but The valley of Slaughter_ King
Josiah first of all _defiled_ this place, as the text speaks, 2 Kings
23:10; that is, polluted it by burying dead bodies in it, by...
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THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
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Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah and from the
streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the referenc...
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29-34 In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be
degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him.
The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but...
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All kind and degrees of mirth shall cease, REVELATION 18:23, all
places shall be filled with lamentations and woe; their singing shall
be turned into sighing; they shall lay aside all things that are...
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Jeremiah 7:34 cease H7673 (H8689) cities H5892 Judah H3063 streets
H2351 Jerusalem H3389 voice H6963 mirth H8342 v
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CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming
desolations because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast
themselves...
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Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the
people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force
of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:34 I WILL SILENCE... THE VOICE OF THE
BRIDEGROOM. Normal joy will end, so weddings will not occur (Jeremiah
16:9;...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_
regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s
reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
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EXPOSITION
Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements
of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this
discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
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So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of
Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the
temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in
r...
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Ezekiel 26:13; Hosea 2:11; Isaiah 1:7; Isaiah 24:7; Isaiah 24:8;...