"But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imaginationc of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward."
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IMAGINATION - Better, as in the margin.
AND WENT BACKWARD - literally, as in the margin; i. e., they turned
their back upon Me to follow their own devices....
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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 (Je...
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OBEDIENCE NECESSARY, NOT SACRIFICE. Yahweh scornfully tells these
formal worshippers to eat even the burnt-offering (wholly offered to
God), as well as the peace-offering (which was eaten by the
worsh...
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IMAGINATION. See note on Jeremiah 3:17....
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See introd. note on the section....
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AND WENT BACKWARD, &C.— _And they turned from me, and not towards
me,_ (Jeremiah 7:25.). _Since the day that your fathers came forth out
of the land of Egypt, unto this day. And I sent unto them,_ &c....
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B. Persistent Obstinacy Jeremiah 7:24-28
TRANSLATION
(24) But they would not hearken and they did not stretch out the ear
but walked in the counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart
and t...
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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward.
HEARKENED NOT - they did not give even a...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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IMAGINATION. — Better, _stubbornness,_ as in Jeremiah 3:17.
WENT BACKWARD AND NOT FORWARD. — The whole sacrificial system, even
at its best, to say nothing of its idolatrous corruptions, was
accordin...
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וְ לֹ֤א שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ וְ לֹֽא ־הִטּ֣וּ
אֶת ־אָזְנָ֔ם וַ יֵּֽלְכוּ֙ בְּ
מֹ֣עֵצֹ֔ות בִּ שְׁרִר֖וּת...
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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 finished whole. The only possible exception Jeremiah 10:1
shall be...
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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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I pause, not to interrupt the Reader in the progress of these verses,
they are all to the same amount as the former. How pathetically the
Prophet mourns the obstinacy of his people! Surely ministers o...
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_They hearkened not nor inclined their ear _Here the Prophet shews,
that the Jews did not then begin to be rebellious against God and his
word; for they imitated the impious contumacy of their fathers...
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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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BUT THEY HEARKENED NOT, NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR,.... Neither to the law
that was given them, nor to the promises that were made unto them,
this was the case of the Jewish fathers, and also of their pos...
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But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the
counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went
backward, and not forward.
Ver. 24. _But they hearkened not, nor incl...
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_Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel_ And let Israel hear
when their God speaks _Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices,
and eat flesh_ The burnt-offerings, after they were flayed,...
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THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
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IMAGINATION:
Or, stubbornness
WENT:
_ Heb._ were...
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21-28 God shows that obedience was required of them. That which God
commanded was, Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God.
The promise is very encouraging. Let God's will be your rule, an...
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NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR: it notes something of a higher degree of
non-attention than bare not hearkening, viz. their not listening that
they might obey what they hear, JEREMIAH 7:26, JEREMIAH 11:8, not...
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Jeremiah 7:24 obey H8085 (H8804) incline H5186 (H8689) ear H241
followed H3212 (H8799) counsels H4156 dictates H8307 evil H7451 hearts
H3820 backward H268 forward H6440
they - Jeremiah 7:26, Jeremiah...
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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...
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Jeremiah 7:21. _Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put
your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake
not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I b...
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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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_Went backward, and not forward._
BACKWARD
I. Illustrations of going backward in regard to religion.
1. From Jewish history. Compare best days of Solomon, when temple was
dedicated, with these when...
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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 comfort in the temple
while brea...
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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 Je...
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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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Deuteronomy 29:19; Exodus 32:7; Exodus 32:8; Ezekiel 20:13; Ezekiel
20:16; Ezekiel 20:21; Ezekiel 20:8; Hosea 4:16; Jeremiah 11:7; Jeremia