Here is a very solemn scripture indeed, in which the Lord forbids his servant even to pray for the people. And there is another solemn scripture suitable to be read together, Ezekiel 16:42. When the Lord commands his faithful servant not to pray for sinners: and when the Lord ceaseth to correct, punishment is not far off; Lord keep us from these sore judgments!
Verse Jeremiah 7:16. _THEREFORE PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE_] They have filled up the measure of their iniquity, and they must become examples of my justice. How terrible must the state of that plac...
They had reached that stage in which men sin without any sense of guilt (see 1 John 5:16). NEITHER MAKE INTERCESSION TO ME - In Jeremiah 14:7 we have an intercessory prayer offered by Jeremiah, but no...
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
THE WORSHIP OF ASTARTE. The prophet is forbidden to intercede for a people who are even now worshipping other gods, to their own deserved ruin. The cult (p. 99) described in Jeremiah 7:18 (and more fu...
MAKE INTERCESSION. Compare Jeremiah 11:14; Jeremiah 14:11....
_pray not thou_ So in ch. Jeremiah 14:7 f. when Jeremiah does intercede, the prayer is refused (Jeremiah 7:11), and in ch. Jeremiah 15:1 even the intercession of Moses and Samuel it is declared would...
See introd. note on the section and cp. Jeremiah 15:1. It is hardly probable that this formed part of Jeremiah's address, seeing that it gives us in fact Jehovah's words to His prophet abruptly insert...
THEREFORE, PRAY NOT THOU, &C.— This is not said to Jeremiah, because God would not have him affected with love for his country; but to assure him, that if he prayed it would be in vain, as he had dete...
II. PAGAN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:16-20 The worship in Jerusalem was so corrupt that God instructs Jeremiah to cease interceding for the apostates (Jeremiah 7:16). The depravity of the nation is further de...
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. THEREFORE PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE ... When people...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
So in Jeremiah 14:7, when Jeremiah does intercede for them, the prayer is rejected....
PRAY NOT THOU. — The words imply that a prayer of intercession, like that which Moses had offered of old (Exodus 32:10), was rising up in the heart of the prophet. He is told that he must check it. Ju...
וְ אַתָּ֞ה אַל ־תִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל ׀ בְּעַד ־הָ עָ
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
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...
Therefore (h) pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. (h) To assure them that God had determined with himself...
_Praise, offered to appease my wrath. (Haydock) --- This admirably shews the force of the saints' intercession, which God does not reject, but rather encourages by such declarations. Abraham and Moses...
God, in order to exonerate his servant from every ill-will, forbids him to pray for the people. This might have been done for the sake of the Prophet, as well as of the whole people; for no doubt Jere...
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...
THEREFORE PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE,.... These are the words of the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah, forbidding him to pray for the people of the Jews; which he either was doing, or about to do, and...
Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. Ver. 16. _Therefore pray not thou for this people._] For I...
_Therefore pray not thou for this people_ God had been wont to suffer himself to be prevailed with to spare his people by the mediation of his servants, as of Moses, Exodus 32:11; Exodus 32:14; Number...
Therefore pray not thou for this people, the Lord expressly forbidding the prophet to make intercession for the reprobate nation, NEITHER LIFT UP CRY NOR PRAYER FOR THEM, NEITHER MAKE INTERCESSION TO...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the prac...
God forbids his prophets to pray for them in any kind by any cry or intercession; or, _running upon me_, which shows that God is resolved to root them out, seeing he will admit of no intercession; acc...
Jeremiah 7:16 pray H6419 (H8691) people H5971 up H5375 (H8799) cry H7440 prayer H8605 them H1157 intercession...
YHWH EXPLAINS TO JEREMIAH WHY HE SEES HIS PEOPLE AS HAVING GONE BEYOND WHAT WAS ACCEPTABLE, AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MUST INEVITABLY BE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY REFUSED TO HEAR HIS VOICE (JEREMI...
Jeremiah 7:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that ente...
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...
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...
_Pray not thou for this people._ INTERCESSORY PRAYER FORBIDDEN 1. God’s prophets are praying men. 2. God’s praying prophets have a great interest in heaven, how little soever they have on earth. 3...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:1 False Religion and an Idolatrous People. These chapters give evidence of the truth of God’s accusations in chs. Jeremiah 2:1. Judah takes com
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:16 DO NOT PRAY... DO NOT INTERCEDE. This is an unusual command for a dire situation. After many warnings, God has made the decision to punish, and he will NOT HEAR (respond...
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...
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...
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...
1 John 5:16; 2 Samuel 8:18; Exodus 32:10; Ezekiel 14:14; Isaiah 1:15
Pray not — Certainly the prophet did pray that God would save a remnant, though not that he would revoke his decree; or save the body of them....