If the people repented, instead of being led into captivity, God would maintain their national existence. It is a promise of the continuance of an old blessing....
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
THE TEMPLE SERMON. The prophet is sent to the gate of the Temple, to rebuke the false confidence of Yahweh's worshippers in the possession of this block of buildings (these, Jeremiah 7:4). Yahweh desi...
THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL. This title occurs thirty-four times in Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 7:3; Jeremiah 7:21; Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 16:9
_your ways and your doings_ a frequent expression in this Book. See Intr. iii. § 14 (_b_), note. Cp. Ezekiel 14:22 f., Ezekiel 20:43; Jeremiah 36:17;...
I. PRESUMPTUOUS WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:3-15 The men of Judah, like the majority of all ages, took worship for granted. They were content simply to show up at the Temple and participate in the prescribed r...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS. — “Ways,” as in Zechariah 1:6, of general habits, “doings” of separate acts. I WILL CAUSE YOU TO DWELL. — The English suggests the thoughts of something new, but what Jerem...
כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל...
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
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...
_Dwell. Hebrew, "make you dwell here." (Haydock)_...
It appears by the subject of the Prophet's sermon, that the men of Judah, while destitute of vital godliness, were much taken up with the form of it: and though without the love of God in their heart,...
_Make good_, he says, _your ways and your doings, then will I dwell in this place _(189) This promise contains an implied contrast; for the Prophet intimates, that the people would not long survive, u...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... The Lord of armies above and below in general, and the God of Israel in particular; wherefore they ought to hearken to what he was about to say, an...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. Ver. 3. _Amend your ways and your doings._] Heb., Make good your ways, _...
_Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel_ As creatures, we are all bound to regard _the Lord of hosts;_ as members of the visible church, _the God of Israel;_ what he said to them he says to u...
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, He whose power and mercy the children of Israel had so often experienced. AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS, their habits of living and the individual ac...
GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE...
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...
AMEND YOUR WAYS AND YOUR DOINGS, i.e. mend your manners. Amending signifies both to turn from our evil works, and make our good better. I WILL CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS PLACE; you shall not go into c...
Jeremiah 7:3 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 Amend H3190 (H8685) ways...
JUDAH MUST NOT TRUST IN THE PRESENCE OF THE TEMPLE FOR SECURITY BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THEIR EVIL WAYS YHWH INTENDS TO DO TO THE TEMPLE WHAT HE DID TO HIS HOUSE AT SHILOH, DESTROY IT (JEREMIAH 7:1). A...
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...
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...
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...
_Stand in the gate. .. and proclaim._ BOLDNESS IN PREACHING Some preachers are traders from port to port, following the customary and approved course; others adventure over the whole ocean of human c...
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
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:3 Though the Israelites come to worship (v. Jeremiah 7:2), they must AMEND (literally, “make good”) their patterns of life. Such change is necessary
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...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 18:30; Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 33:4; Isaiah 1:16; Isaiah 55:7