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REPROBATE - See the margin; not really silver, but the dross.
THE LORD HATH REJECTED THEM - This then is the end. The smelter is
God’s prophet: the bellows the breath of inspiration: the flux his
ear...
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CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The call to the children of Benjamin (Jeremiah 6:1) _
2. Corruption and the deserved judgment (Jeremiah 6:9)
3. The prophet addressed (Jeremiah 6:27)
Jeremiah 6:1. The children of B...
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THE PROPHET'S TASK. The record of earlier prophecies (Jeremiah 6:1)
fitly closes with the application to the prophet of the figure of the
trier (_mg._) or assayer; so inextricably is the alloy mixed w...
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REPROBATE... REJECTED. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_
(App-6). Hebrew. _nim'as... ma'as:_ i.e. rejected (silver)... rejected
(them). Compare Isaiah 1:22.Ezekiel 22:18....
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The last of the four divisions. See introd. note to the ch....
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I HAVE SET THEE FOR A TOWER, &C.— The prophet in these verses
evidently takes his ideas from metals, and the trial of them; and the
verbs in the latter clause of this verse, referring to such trial,
m...
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6. _The hopeless task of the Prophet_ (Jeremiah 6:27-30)
TRANSLATION
(27) A tower have I made you among My people, a fortified city that
you may know, then test their way. (28) They are all rebellio...
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Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected
them.
REPROBATE SILVER - silver so full of alloy as to be utterly worthless
(, "Thy silver is become dross"). The Jews were fit...
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1-8. The hostile army approaches....
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REPROBATE SILVER. — Better, as in the margin, _refuse silver;_ the
dross and not the metal; so worthless that even Jehovah, as the great
refiner, rejects it utterly, as yielding nothing. The adjective...
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כֶּ֣סֶף נִמְאָ֔ס קָרְא֖וּ לָהֶ֑ם
כִּֽי ־מָאַ֥ס יְהוָ֖ה בָּהֶֽם׃ פ...
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Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 6:1
CHAPTER IV
THE SCYTHIANS AS THE SCOURGE OF GOD
Jeremiah 4:3 - Jeremiah 6:30
IF we would understand what is written here and elsewhere in the pages
of prophecy, two thing...
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This judgment the prophet now described. A fierce and relentless foe,
acting under the word of Jehovah, is described as coming up against
Jerusalem. The prophet declared that the city would be taken,...
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The last of these verses throws a light on the whole passage, by way
of explanation, on the principles of the gospel of Christ. All men are
as reprobate silver, until the Great Refiner and Purifier of...
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Jeremiah concludes his subject by saying, — that if the Jews had
been cast a hundred times into the furnace, they would not be
improved, as they would never become softened on account of their
hopeles...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4, 5, AND 6.
Chapter 4 resumes the subject of Chapter s 2, 3, and, applying it at
that time to the people, tells them that, if they return, it must be
unto t...
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REPROBATE SILVER SHALL MEN CALL THEM,.... Or, "call ye them" i, as the
Targum; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions; by whom
are meant the Jews, who thought themselves of some account...
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_Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath
rejected them._
Ver. 30. Reprobate _a_ silver shall men call them.] Dross and refuse,
rather than pure metal; "silver" they would seem t...
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THE IMPENDING JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED...
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REPROBATE SILVER:
Or, refuse silver...
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18-30 God rejects their outward services, as worthless to atone for
their sins. Sacrifice and incense were to direct them to a Mediator;
but when offered to purchase a license to go on in sin, they p...
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REPROBATE SILVER; or, _Refuse silver_; such as will be rejected in
payments; they are not to be purged or reformed. SHALL MEN CALL THEM;
or, _be called_, i.e. they shall be esteemed such as will not p...
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Jeremiah 6:30 call H7121 (H8804) rejected H3988 (H8737) silver H3701
LORD H3068 rejected H3988 (H8804)
Reprobate silver - or, Refuse silver, Psalms 119:119; Proverbs 25:4;
Isaiah 1:22, Isaiah 1:25;...
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IN VIEW OF JUDAH'S FAILURE TO RESPOND TO HIS WARNINGS YHWH STRESSES
THAT THE INVASION IS NOW IMMINENT (JEREMIAH 6:1).
Chapter 4 had predicted that invasion was coming, and chapter 5 had
given the rea...
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CONTENTS: Jeremiah's second message, continued. The terrors that
should come because of sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: The God of mercy is loath to depart even from a provoking
people,...
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Jeremiah 6:1. _Oh ye children of Benjamin flee out of the midst of
Jerusalem._ Many of this tribe lived in the city. _Blow the trumpet_
[of alarm] _in Tekoa,_ a village twelve miles from Jerusalem,
ac...
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_The bellows are burnt._
THE BELLOWS BURNT
Apply to--
I. The prophet himself. The prophet was exhausted before the people
were impressed. So also with Noah, Isaiah, John the Baptist, Jesus
Himself....
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REFUSE SILVER
Refuse silver. Jeremiah 6:30.
“Refuse silver!” What did the prophet Jeremiah mean by “refuse
silver”? And why did he tell the people of Judah that they were like
refuse silver.
As man...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
POSITION OF THIS CHAPTER THE SAME. (Comp. notes on 3, 4, 5.)
2. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 6:1. “_Tekoa:_” a small
town of defenc...
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EXPOSITION
A prophecy, in five stanzas or strophes, vividly describing the
judgment and its causes, and enforcing the necessity of repentance.
JEREMIAH 6:1
Arrival of a hostile army from the north,...
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Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and
know, and seek in the broad places, if you can find a man, if there be
any that is executing judgment, and that is seeking truth; and...
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Ezekiel 22:18; Ezekiel 22:19; Hosea 9:17; Isaiah 1:22; Isaiah 1:25;
Jeremiah 14:19; Lamentations 5:22; Matthew 5:13; Proverbs 25:4;...
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Refuse — Such as will be rejected in payments....