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Verse Jeremiah 16:20. _SHALL A MAN MAKE GODS UNTO HIMSELF?_] Can any
be so silly, and so preposterously absurd? Yes, fallen man is capable
of any thing that is base, mean, vile, and wicked, till influ...
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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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MAN. Hebrew. _'adam_. App-14....
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See introd. summary to section. For the thought in Jeremiah 16:19 cp.
Jeremiah 12:15 f. and for the interest felt by Jeremiah in the
religious life of the heathen, Jeremiah 2:11 _a_. Hence Co. with Gi...
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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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D. Affirmation by the Prophet Jeremiah 16:19-21
TRANSLATION
(19) O LORD my strength and my fortress and my refuge in the day of
trouble: Unto You the nations shall come from the ends of the earth
and...
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1-13. Selfdenial and an ascetic, life are to be the prophet's lot....
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הֲ יַעֲשֶׂה ־לֹּ֥ו אָדָ֖ם אֱלֹהִ֑ים
וְ הֵ֖מָּ
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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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_Make gods. This consideration alone suffices to shew their absurdity.
(Calmet) --- "Man must now be merciful to god!" (Tertullian, Apol.)
--- No one can make even a man, much less a god. (St. Jerome)...
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The prayer of the Prophet is a beautiful break in the subject; as if
the man of God felt his mind instantly led out, so to look up and
plead with the Lord, from what had been said. And the burden of h...
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Some frigidly explain this verse, as though the Prophet said that men
are doubly foolish, who form for themselves gods from wood, stone,
gold, or silver, because they cannot change their nature; for w...
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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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SHALL A MAN MAKE GODS UNTO HIMSELF,.... Can a man make his own gods? a
poor, weak, mortal man? can he make gods of gold, silver, brass, wood,
or stone? can he put deity into them? and when he has made...
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Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they [are] no gods?
Ver. 20. _Should a man make gods to himself?_] _Nonne res haec stupore
digna?_ Is not this a strange sottishness? The Gentiles here see it,...
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_O Lord, my strength_ To support and comfort me; _my fortress_ To
protect and shelter me; _and my refuge in the day of affliction_ To
whom I may flee for deliverance and consolation; _the Gentiles, th...
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Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods? The question
has the strength of a most emphatic denial, of a stern rebuke to the
men of Judah for their idolatrous ways. Moreover, the Lord e...
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REASONS FOR THE CAPTIVITY...
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14-21 The restoration from the Babylonish captivity would be
remembered in place of the deliverance from Egypt; it also typified
spiritual redemption, and the future deliverance of the church from
an...
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It is doubtful whether these be to be understood as the words of God,
showing the unreasonableness of the sin of idolatry, or, as others
make them, the continued speech of the Gentiles, who after thei...
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Jeremiah 16:20 man H120 make H6213 (H8799) gods H430 gods H430
Psalms 115:4-8,...
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THE SIN OF JUDAH IS ESPECIALLY HEINOUS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT
ONE DAY THE NATIONS WILL RECOGNISE THE FOLLY OF THEIR IDOLATRY. THIS
MAKE JUDAH'S TURNING TO IDOLS TOTALLY REPREHENSIBLE (JEREMIAH...
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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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_O Lord, my strength, and my fortress._
WHAT GOD IS TO HIS PEOPLE
One of the Puritans was accustomed to describe prayer as the flight of
the lonely man to the only God. There is such prayer here. Th...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 16:19 Jeremiah’s confession of faith
indicates he has repented, as he was ordered to do (Jeremiah 15:19).
The NATIONS will...
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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 me...
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Acts 19:26; Galatians 1:8; Galatians 4:8; Hosea 8:4; Isaiah 36:19;...