"And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imaginationc of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:"
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Verse Jeremiah 16:12. _AND YE HAVE DONE WORSE THAN YOUR FATHERS_] The
sins of the fathers would not have been visited on the children, had
they not followed their example, and become even worse than t...
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IMAGINATIONS - Read stubbornness....
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THE COMING CALAMITIES: RESTORATION PROMISED, RUIN IMMINENT ON ACCOUNT
OF JUDAH'S SIN AND CONCERNING THE SABBATH (16-17)
CHAPTER 16
_ 1. The coming calamities (Jeremiah 16:1) _
2. The coming days of...
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JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR
SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming
sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
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IMAGINATION. stubbornness. Reference to Pentateuch, (see notes on
Jeremiah 3:17; Jeremiah 7:24; Jeremiah 9:14; Jeremiah 13:10). App-92.
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
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Du. rejects all these _vv_. Co. omits 9 13, suspects the genuineness
of 14, 15 both here and in Jeremiah 23:7 f., and rejects 16, as well
as portions of 17 21. Gi. retains of the whole series only Jer...
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B. Instructions for the Prophet Jeremiah 16:10-13
TRANSLATION
(10) And it shall come to pass when you declare to this people all
these things that they will say unto you: For what reason does the
LOR...
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And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every
one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken
unto me:
YE - emphatic; so far from avoiding your father...
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1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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IMAGINATION. — Better, as before, _stubbornness.
_...
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וְ אַתֶּ֛ם הֲרֵעֹתֶ֥ם לַ עֲשֹׂ֖ות מֵ
אֲבֹֽותֵיכֶ֑ם וְ הִנְּכֶ֣ם הֹלְכִ֗ים
אִ֚ישׁ אַֽחֲרֵי֙ שְׁרִר֣וּת לִבֹּֽו
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The controversy was immediately followed by a new charge to the
prophet. Jehovah called him to a life of personal asceticism,
commanding that he abstain from both mourning and mirth. That is to
say, h...
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_Fathers. Hence you are justly partakers of their punishment, Matthew
xxiii. 32. (Calmet) --- A continuance in sin brings on severe
punishments; after which, God again shews mercy. (Worthington)_...
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There is a wonderful degree of condescension, implied on the part of
God in what is here said. Where there is an enquiry seriously set up
in the soul, concerning the ways and works of God, in his visi...
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I was constrained yesterday to leave unfinished the words of the
Prophet. He said that the children were _worse _than their fathers,
and gave the reason, _Because they followed the wickedness of their...
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In chapter 16 Jehovah teaches Jeremiah to avoid all family
relationships with this people, and to cease from all testimonies of
interest in what was going on among them. For He Himself had entirely
br...
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AND YE HAVE DONE WORSE THAN YOUR FATHERS,.... Not only committed the
same sins, but greater, or, however, attended with more aggravating
circumstances; they were wilfully and impudently done, and obst...
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And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every
one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken
unto me:
Ver. 12. _And ye have done worse._] See Jeremiah 7...
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REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
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IMAGINATION:
Or, stubbornness...
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10-13 Here seems to be the language of those who quarrel at the word
of God, and instead of humbling and condemning themselves, justify
themselves, as though God did them wrong. A plain and full answe...
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YE in latter ages, in the time of Manasseh, HAVE DONE WORSE THAN YOUR
FATHERS DID, and now in the time of Jehoiakim you run on much in the
same course of idolatry and superstition, which in this is wo...
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Jeremiah 16:12 done H6213 (H8800) worse H7489 (H8689) fathers H1
behold H2009 one H376 follows H1980 (H8802) H310 dictates H8307 evil
H7451 heart H3820 listens H8085 (H8800)
worse - Jeremiah 7:26,...
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JEREMIAH WAS NOT TO TAKE A WIFE OR HAVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS, ATTEND
FUNERALS, OR PARTICIPATE IN FEASTING, AS A SIGN OF THE DEVASTATION
THAT WAS COMING ON JUDAH WHICH WOULD TRANSFORM LIFE FOR ALL ITS
IN...
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CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, forecasting coming
calamities.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: God often makes men's sins their punishment and fills the
backslider in heart with his...
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Jeremiah 16:2. _Thou shalt not take thee a wife in this place._ The
prohibition implies the honour of the state of matrimony, because it
respects the sentence against a devoted nation. Our Saviour giv...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Chapter
s 16 and 17 form one prophecy. The taunt in chap. Jeremiah 17:15 shows
that this message from God was delivered before the capture...
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EXPOSITION
With this chapter should be taken the first eighteen verses of
Jeremiah 17:1. The heading of the Authorized Version well expresses
the contents of Jeremiah 17:1, provided that "the types" a...
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Shall we turn now to Jeremiah 16:1-21.
Now you remember that Jeremiah was just a young man when God called
him to this prophetic ministry. And so in chapter 16:
The word of the LORD came also unto m...
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1 Samuel 15:23; 2 Timothy 3:13; Deuteronomy 29:19; Deuteronomy 9:27;
Ecclesiastes 8:12; Ecclesiastes 9:3; Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21;
Hebrews 3:12;...