"Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely."
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Verse Jeremiah 8:10. _THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES_] From this to
the end of Jeremiah 8:15 is repeated from Jeremiah 6:13....
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These verses are almost identical with Jeremiah 6:12.
Jeremiah 8:10
TO THEM THAT SHALL INHERIT THEM - Rather, “to those that shall take
possession of them, i. e., “to conquerors who shall take them...
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CHAPTER 8
_ 1. The horrors of the invasion (Jeremiah 8:1) _
2. Hardened hearts and retribution (Jeremiah 8:4)
3. Utter destruction threatened (Jeremiah 8:13)
4. The prophet's lamentation (Jeremiah...
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JUDAH'S UNNATURAL CONDUCT AND ITS PUNISHMENT. There is something
unnatural in the persistency of the people's misconduct; they show no
inclination to return to Yahweh, but pursue a headstrong course a...
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GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy
28:30). App-92.
INHERIT. seize; or, to their dispossessors.
FROM. Some codices, with two early printed editions, and Syriac, read
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Jeremiah 8:4 to Jeremiah 9:1. Forecast of punishment as the result of
sin
The section may be thus summarized.
(i) Jeremiah 8:4. Human fortunes and conduct are as a rule liable to
change, but Israel...
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B. Unwise Proclamations by National Leaders Jeremiah 8:8-12
TRANSLATION
(8) How can you say, We are wise! The Torah of the LORD is with us.
But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has labored false...
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_THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS, AND THEIR FIELDS TO
THEM THAT SHALL INHERIT THEM: FOR EVERY ONE FROM THE LEAST EVEN UNTO
THE GREATEST IS GIVEN TO COVETOUSNESS, FROM THE PROPHET EVEN UN...
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1-3. The dead shall share in the universal punishment....
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(10-12) EVERY ONE FROM THE LEAST... — The prophet reproduces, though
not verbally, what he had already said in Jeremiah 6:12. (Comp. Notes
there.) It is as though that emphatic condemnation of the sin...
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לָכֵן֩ אֶתֵּ֨ן אֶת ־נְשֵׁיהֶ֜ם לַ
אֲחֵרִ֗ים שְׂדֹֽותֵיהֶם֙ לְ
יֹ֣ורְשִׁ֔ים כִּ֤י מִ קָּטֹן֙ וְ עַד...
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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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FALSE PROMISES OF PEACE
Jeremiah 8:4-22
This chapter is filled with denunciation of the unreasonable and
infatuated obstinacy of Israel. As the horse rushes madly to the
fight, so were the people se...
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Utter desolation would overtake them so that death would be chosen
rather than life. This sin of idolatry had been aggravated by the
people's terrible persistence therein. If men fall it is naturally...
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_Others. Idumeans, &c. Yet most part of the land remained
uncultivated. (Calmet) --- The rest, to ver. 13., "they will collect
their fruits, says," &c., is supplied by Grabe. (Haydock)_...
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I bring the whole of this beautiful Chapter, from this verse to the
end into one view, for the sake of shortness, and from necessity; but
otherwise nothing could be more desirable than to dwell upon e...
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GOD here threatens punishment, because he found that he effected
nothing, and that he had to do with an obstinate people, having before
tried whether they were reclaimable. Having seen that exhortatio...
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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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THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS,.... To strangers, to
the Gentiles; than which nothing could be more disagreeable to them,
or a sorer punishment, of a temporal one:
AND THEIR FIELDS TO...
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Therefore will I give their wives unto others, [and] their fields to
them that shall inherit [them]: for every one from the least even unto
the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even...
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_Therefore will I give their wives unto others_ See on Jeremiah 6:12;
_and their fields to them, that shall inherit_, or _possess, them_ For
the word _inherit_ is sometimes taken for any sort of posse...
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THE JEWS PERSIST IN WICKEDNESS...
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4-13 What brought this ruin? 1. The people would not attend to
reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common
prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that le...
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THEREFORE WILL I GIVE THEIR WIVES UNTO OTHERS, AND THEIR FIELDS TO
THEM THAT SHALL INHERIT THEM; a paraphrastical description of the
miseries of war: God doth here insinuate that their misery shall no...
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Jeremiah 8:10 give H5414 (H8799) wives H802 others H312 fields H7704
inherit H3423 (H8802) least H6996 greatest H1419 given H1214 (H8802)
covetousness H1215 prophet H5030 priest H3548 deals H6213 (H88...
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YHWH EXPRESSES AMAZEMENT AT THE UNWILLINGNESS OF HIS PEOPLE TO RETURN
TO HIM, AND THEIR COMPLETE DISREGARD FOR HIS REQUIREMENTS, AND WARNS
THEM THAT AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY WILL LOSE EVERYTHING (JEREMIA...
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Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the
bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the
bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bo...
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CONTENTS: Message in the temple gate, continued. Terrible judgments
impending.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: Impenitence brings certain ruin. All the boasted wisdom of
man cannot serve to k...
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Jeremiah 8:1. _At that time they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah of the princes of the priests, and the bones_ (as in
the Chaldaic) _of the_ false _prophets._ They shall spread them be...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Chronology and History, as in chap.
7. Observe, however, that a new section in this extended prophetic
address commenced with Jeremiah 8:4, which continues to chap. Jere...
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EXPOSITION
JEREMIAH 8:1
Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been
deceased.
JEREMIAH 8:1
THEY SHALL BRING OUT THE BONES. Not only shall many of the dead bodies
remain unbur...
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At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the
kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the
priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the
inha...
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2 Peter 2:1; Amos 5:11; Deuteronomy 28:30; Ezekiel 22:27; Ezekiel
22:28; Ezekiel 33:31; Isaiah 28:7; Isaiah 56:10; Jeremiah 23:11;...