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THAT USE THEIR TONGUES - literally, that take their tongues. Their
second characteristic. They have no message from God, but they take
their tongues, their only implement, and say, He saith, using the...
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CHAPTER 23:9-40
Condemnation of the False Prophets
_ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah
23:9) _
2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15)
3. Forgotten and...
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THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to
deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest
(Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
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SAY, HE SAITH. uttered it as an oracle. Hebrew. _ne'um._ Reference to
Pentateuch (Genesis 22:16; Numbers 14:28; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:4;...
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Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets
Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we
have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also
grievously misled t...
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See introd. summary to section....
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_use_ The tongue is all of which they can avail themselves. There is
no first-hand knowledge behind it.
_He saith_ This phrase, borrowed from the true prophets, will, they
expect, help their sayings...
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3. _The methods of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:23-32)
TRANSLATION
(23) Am I a God near at hand (oracle of the LORD), and not a God far
off? (24) Can a man hide himself in secret places that I am...
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1-4. A remnant shall return....
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THAT USE THEIR TONGUES, AND SAY, HE SAITH. — Literally, _that take
their tongues._ There is no adequate evidence for the marginal
rendering “that smooth their tongues.” The scornful phrase
indicates t...
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הִנְנִ֥י עַל ־הַ נְּבִיאִ֖ם נְאֻם
־יְהוָ֑ה הַ
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CHAPTER VIII
BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS
Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1
"Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My
pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1
"Of what avail is straw instead...
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Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the
throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been
responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and
p...
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Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their
tongues, and say, (a) He saith.
(a) That is, the Lord....
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_Use. Hebrew also, "sharpen, or render smooth," and insinuating, Psalm
xlix. 16. (Calmet)_...
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At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them,
and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set
forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
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He adds, secondly, _Behold, I am against the prophets, who mollify
their own tongue _Almost all interpreters take לקה, _lekech, _as
signifying to render sweet or soft; and they understand that the fal...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23.
On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord
would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the
Spir...
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BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST THE PROPHETS, SAITH THE LORD,.... Not another
sort of prophets distinct from the former, or those that follow; but
the same under another character, and against whom he was, and...
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Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their
tongues, and say, He saith.
Ver. 31. _That use their tongues._] Or, Abuse them rather, to
smoothing and soothing up people in their...
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_Behold, I am against the prophets that steal my words_, &c. “That
imitate the true prophets, speaking in my name, as they do, and
saying, _Thus saith the Lord_, (see Jeremiah 23:31,) and using their...
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Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their
tongues and say, He saith, literally, "that take their own tongues and
utter a divine oracle," asserting that they were proclaiming me...
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AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
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USE THEIR TONGUES:
Or, that smooth their tongues...
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23-32 Men cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never
see what judgments they prepare for themselves? Let them consider what
a vast difference there is between these prophecies and th...
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Some think the Hebrew words were more properly translated _smooth
their tongues_: see the English Annotations. But the next words seem
to assure us that the crime for which God here by the prophet
ref...
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Jeremiah 23:31 prophets H5030 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 use H3947
(H8802) tongues H3956 say H5001 ...
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YHWH REJECTS THE TESTIMONY OF THE FALSE JERUSALEM PROPHETS AND REVEALS
HIMSELF AS THE ALL-KNOWING ONE), CONDEMNING THE TEMPLE PROPHETS AS
FALSE DREAMERS WHO CAUSE THE PEOPLE TO ERR. THEY ARE IN DIRECT...
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JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE
PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9).
Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those
who had been distorting that visio...
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Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the
sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD._
What a dreadful woe this is upon all false shepherds, those who
profess to be sent of God to...
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CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against
the faithless shepherds.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and
preten...
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Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the
sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28,
because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 23:31 God opposes those who falsely claim
to speak his words through their LYING DREAMS and harmful LIES....
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The
chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in
chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
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EXPOSITION
The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of
discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah,
our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
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Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those
Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the
LORD (Jeremiah 23:1).
God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
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Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 23:17; Micah 2:11...
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He — That is, the Lord saith....