Wonders. Protestants, "lightness." Septuagint, "frauds," or pretended miracles. (Haydock) --- False prophets cannot work true miracles: but it is more difficult to distinguish these than the former mark of being lawfully sent, ver. 21. (Worthington)
The third characteristic. See Jeremiah 23:25. LIGHTNESS - Vain, empty, talk....
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...
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)...
LIGHTNESS. reckless boasting....
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...
See introd. summary to section....
_vain boasting_ The Hebrew root, which is rather rare, denotes in the cognate languages impudent boldness....
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...
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: ther...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
LIGHTNESS] RV 'vain boasting.'...
FALSE DREAMS. — The words may mean either actual dreams, which have nothing answering to them in the world of facts, or dreams which are not really such, but simply, as in Jeremiah 23:31, the form in...
הִ֠נְנִי עַֽל ־נִבְּאֵ֞י חֲלֹמֹ֥ות שֶׁ֨קֶר֙ נְאֻם...
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...
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...
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...
He adds, thirdly, _Behold, I am against those who prophesy dreams of falsehood _It was indeed necessary to say here, that though the false teachers arrogated to themselves what alone belonged to the s...
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...
BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST THEM THAT PROPHESY FALSE DREAMS, SAITH THE LORD,.... And not true ones, such as the Lord spoke in to his prophets, and which they communicated from him to his people; see Numbe...
Behold, I [am] against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: the...
_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...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, insisting that the fabric of their own thoughts was to be accepted as God's revelation, AND DO TELL THEM, AND CAUSE MY PEOPLE, as...
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...
FALSE DREAMS; that is, false things under the notion of things which I have revealed unto them in their sleep. By _lightness_ here some understand volubility and smoothness of tongue and speech; other...
Jeremiah 23:32 prophesy H5012 (H8737) false H8267 dreams H2472 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 tell H5608 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 23:31 God opposes those who falsely claim to speak his words through their LYING DREAMS and harmful LIES....
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...
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...
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...
2 Corinthians 1:17; Deuteronomy 13:1; Deuteronomy 18:20; Ezekiel 13:7;...