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Verse Jeremiah 7:16. _THEREFORE PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE_] They
have filled up the measure of their iniquity, and they must become
examples of my justice. How terrible must the state of that plac...
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They had reached that stage in which men sin without any sense of
guilt (see 1 John 5:16).
NEITHER MAKE INTERCESSION TO ME - In Jeremiah 14:7 we have an
intercessory prayer offered by Jeremiah, but no...
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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 (J
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THE WORSHIP OF ASTARTE. The prophet is forbidden to intercede for a
people who are even now worshipping other gods, to their own deserved
ruin. The cult (p. 99) described in Jeremiah 7:18 (and more fu...
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MAKE INTERCESSION. Compare Jeremiah 11:14; Jeremiah 14:11....
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See introd. note on the section and cp. Jeremiah 15:1. It is hardly
probable that this formed part of Jeremiah's address, seeing that it
gives us in fact Jehovah's words to His prophet abruptly insert...
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_pray not thou_ So in ch. Jeremiah 14:7 f. when Jeremiah does
intercede, the prayer is refused (Jeremiah 7:11), and in ch. Jeremiah
15:1 even the intercession of Moses and Samuel it is declared would...
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THEREFORE, PRAY NOT THOU, &C.— This is not said to Jeremiah, because
God would not have him affected with love for his country; but to
assure him, that if he prayed it would be in vain, as he had
dete...
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II. PAGAN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:16-20
The worship in Jerusalem was so corrupt that God instructs Jeremiah to
cease interceding for the apostates (Jeremiah 7:16). The depravity of
the nation is further de...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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So in Jeremiah 14:7, when Jeremiah does intercede for them, the prayer
is rejected....
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PRAY NOT THOU. — The words imply that a prayer of intercession, like
that which Moses had offered of old (Exodus 32:10), was rising up in
the heart of the prophet. He is told that he must check it. Ju...
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וְ אַתָּ֞ה אַל ־תִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל ׀
בְּעַד ־הָ עָ
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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 fin
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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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Therefore (h) pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor
prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear
thee.
(h) To assure them that God had determined with himself...
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_Praise, offered to appease my wrath. (Haydock) --- This admirably
shews the force of the saints' intercession, which God does not
reject, but rather encourages by such declarations. Abraham and Moses...
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Here is a very solemn scripture indeed, in which the Lord forbids his
servant even to pray for the people. And there is another solemn
scripture suitable to be read together, Ezekiel 16:42. When the L...
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God, in order to exonerate his servant from every ill-will, forbids
him to pray for the people. This might have been done for the sake of
the Prophet, as well as of the whole people; for no doubt Jere...
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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 PRAY NOT THOU FOR THIS PEOPLE,.... These are the words of
the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah, forbidding him to pray for the
people of the Jews; which he either was doing, or about to do, and...
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Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor
prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear
thee.
Ver. 16. _Therefore pray not thou for this people._] For I...
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_Therefore pray not thou for this people_ God had been wont to suffer
himself to be prevailed with to spare his people by the mediation of
his servants, as of Moses, Exodus 32:11; Exodus 32:14; Number...
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Therefore pray not thou for this people, the Lord expressly forbidding
the prophet to make intercession for the reprobate nation, NEITHER
LIFT UP CRY NOR PRAYER FOR THEM, NEITHER MAKE INTERCESSION TO...
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THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
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1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will
profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can
claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the
prac...
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God forbids his prophets to pray for them in any kind by any cry or
intercession; or, _running upon me_, which shows that God is resolved
to root them out, seeing he will admit of no intercession; acc...
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Jeremiah 7:16 pray H6419 (H8691) people H5971 up H5375 (H8799) cry
H7440 prayer H8605 them H1157 intercession...
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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 7:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word,
and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that ente...
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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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_Pray not thou for this people._
INTERCESSORY PRAYER FORBIDDEN
1. God’s prophets are praying men.
2. God’s praying prophets have a great interest in heaven, how
little soever they have on earth.
3...
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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 com
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:16 DO NOT PRAY... DO NOT INTERCEDE. This
is an unusual command for a dire situation. After many warnings, God
has made the decision to punish, and he will NOT HEAR (respond...
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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 Jer...
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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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1 John 5:16; 2 Samuel 8:18; Exodus 32:10; Ezekiel 14:14; Isaiah 1:15
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Pray not — Certainly the prophet did pray that God would save a
remnant, though not that he would revoke his decree; or save the body
of them....