For ye were (h) hypocrites in your hearts, when ye sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do [it].
(h) For you were fully intending to go into Egypt, whatever God spoke to the contrary.
Verse Jeremiah 42:20. _FOR YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS_] What a most miserable and incorrigible people! Ingratitude, hypocrisy, rebellion, and cruelty seem to have been enthroned in their hearts! An...
YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS - Or, “ye have led yourselves astray,” i. e., your sending me to ask counsel of God was an act of self-delusion. You felt so sure that God would direct you to go into Egyp...
CHAPTER 42 _ 1. Jeremiah the intercessor (Jeremiah 42:1) _ 2. The answer from Jehovah (Jeremiah 42:7) Jeremiah 42:1. The remnant, the few who were left after the terrible happenings recorded in the
JEREMIAH 42:1 TO JEREMIAH 43:7. THE MIGRATION INTO EGYPT. Jeremiah is asked by the leaders (Jeremiah 42:1 _mg.,_ with LXX) and the people to seek Yahweh's guidance, which they solemnly ...
YE DISSEMBLED, &C. None but Jehovah could know this. Compare Jeremiah 41:17; Psalms 139:2. Joh 1:48. John 2:24; John 2:25. HEARTS. souls. H
_have dealt deceitfully against your own souls_ i.e. _selves_or _lives_; mg. (less well) _in your souls_. It is best (with slight modification of the MT.) to render with LXX "ye have done evil against...
See introd. summary to the section....
Du. (see introd. note to section) considers Jeremiah 42:15 as wholly an addition, and Jeremiah 42:9 as containing much editorial matter....
DISCOURSE: 1082 DISSIMULATION REPROVED Jeremiah 42:20. Ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us unto the Lord our God; and according unto all that the...
3. _The response of the Lord_ (Jeremiah 42:7-22) TRANSLATION (7) And it came to pass at the end of ten days that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah. (8) And he called Johanan the son of Kareah,...
For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we...
42:20 souls, (a-8) Or 'led astray your own souls.'...
YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS] RV 'ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls,'i.e. while persuading yourselves that you are prepared to accept God's decision, all the while nothing but your own...
JEREMIAH'S MESSAGE FROM GOD TO JOHANAN 1. Jezaniah] the Azariah of Jeremiah 43:2 (and probably not the Jezaniah of Jeremiah 40:8). 7-22. The people are forbidden to go down to Egypt. Jeremiah had alw...
FOR YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS... — Looks and whispers betrayed, we may believe, the feelings of the prophet’s hearers. He saw by such outward signs, or he read, as by the intuition of inspiration,...
כִּ֣י _הִתְעֵתֶם֮_† בְּ נַפְשֹֽׁותֵיכֶם֒ כִּֽי ־אַתֶּ֞ם שְׁלַחְ
CHAPTER XIV THE DESCENT INTO EGYPT Jeremiah 42:1 Jeremiah 43:1 "They came into the land of Egypt, for they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah."- Jeremiah 43:7 THUS within a few days Jeremiah had exper...
Before going forward, Johanan and those associated with him, gathered to Jeremiah, and asked that he pray for them and seek divine guidance. He consented at once to their request, and they promised ob...
_Deceived. Septuagint, "done ill in your souls." Your intention was bad. You thought that I should speak conformably to your wishes. (Calmet) --- He saw by the prophetic light, or by their deportment,...
I cannot sufficiently admire the faithfulness of the Prophet, in times of such general danger. What an uniformity Jeremiah manifested, in his office of speaking the truths of God. Oh! for the Lord to...
He now adds another circumstance, that they had sent him under the pretense of rare piety, as though they were in every way ready to render obedience to God. But he first says that they had _deceived...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 39 THROUGH 44. After this, chapter 39 and the following Chapter s give us the history of the confusion and iniquity that reigned among the remnant who were no...
FOR YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS,.... Did not honestly and faithfully declare their intentions; they said one thing with their mouths, and meant another in their minds; they pretended they would act a...
For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we...
_For ye dissembled in your hearts_ Hebrew, התעתום, _have used deceit._ They acted deceitfully, either toward God, calling him to bear witness to their sincerity in a matter in which they were not sinc...
For ye dissembled in your hearts, literally, "ye have used deceit upon your own souls," WHEN YE SENT ME UNTO THE LORD, YOUR GOD, SAYING, PRAY FOR US UNTO THE LORD, OUR GOD, AND ACCORDING UNTO ALL THAT...
The Lord's Warning Answer...
YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS: Or, you have used deceit against your souls...
7-22 If we would know the mind of the Lord in doubtful cases, we must wait as well as pray. God is ever ready to return in mercy to those he has afflicted; and he never rejects any who rely on his pr...
YE DISSEMBLED IN YOUR HEARTS; or, you have used deceit, either towards God, dealing falsely with him, calling him to be a witness to your sincerity in what you never intended any sincerity in; or towa...
Jeremiah 42:20 hypocrites H8582 (H8689) hearts H5315 sent H7971 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 saying H559 ...
RECOGNISING THAT THEY HAVE NO INTENTION OF OBEYING YHWH JEREMIAH PRONOUNCES OVER THEM WHAT IS TO COME ON THEM (JEREMIAH 42:19). Having been brought down to being a remnant, Judah have now been given t...
JEREMIAH BRINGS TO THE PEOPLE THE WORD OF YHWH (JEREMIAH 42:7). The break of ten days during which Jeremiah waited on YHWH brings out the importance of what is to be said. The run of cultic prophets s...
CONTENTS: God's answer to the inquiry of the people and Jeremiah concerning the calamities recently befallen. God's charge to the people in the land. CHARACTERS: God, Johanan, Jezaniah, Jeremiah. CON...
Jeremiah 42:1. _Then came all the captains of the forces._ שׂרי _sari,_ the princes of the army. _Johanan and Jezaniah_ are for dignity named last, because they were of royal blood. All the people, be...
_For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the Lord your God, saying, Pray for us._ THE HYPOCRISY OF DESIRING THE PRAYERS OF OTHERS WITHOUT A SUITABLE CONDUCT I. Consider on what princip...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 42:19 Jeremiah could hardly speak more plainly: to obey means life; to disobey means death. ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGY as in previous chapter. Observe: _Jeremiah and Baruch_ had been _among the captives of Ishmael_, whom Johanan _rescued_ (chap. Jeremiah 43:6). STATE OF THE NA...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah receives a request to inquire of God concerning the proposed emigration, and a "word of the Lord" follows. JEREMIAH 42:1 JEZANIAH THE SON OF HOSHAIAH. For "Jezaniah," the Septuag...
So in chapter 42: Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, they came unto Jeremiah, and said unto him, We beg you, that you will accept our supplication, and pray for us un...
Ezekiel 14:3; Ezekiel 14:4; Ezekiel 33:31; Galatians 6:7; James 1:22;...