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Jeremiah 15:1-9
The Lord Refuses help the Second Time
The Lord Refuses help the Second Time
CHAPTER XV _God declares to Jeremiah that not even Moses and Samuel, whose_ _prayers had been so prevalent, could divert him from his_ _purpose of punishing so wicked a people_, 1. _Accordingly th...
CAST THEM OUT OF MY SIGHT - Rather, “send them out of My presence, and let them go away.” The prophet is to dismiss them, because their mediators, Moses and Samuel, whose intercession had been accepte...
CHAPTER 15 The Prophet's Deep Soul-Exercise _ 1. The answer (Jeremiah 15:1) _ 2. The prophet's grief and sorrow and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 15:10) Jeremiah 15:1. The preceding prayer is
JEREMIAH 14:1 TO JEREMIAH 15:9. THE DROUGHT IN JUDAH, AND JEREMIAH'S CONSEQUENT INTERCESSION. The date of this disaster is unknown, but some year in the latter half of Jehoiakim's reign is most probab...
THEN: or, And. MOSES AND SAMUEL. See Psalms 99:6 and Ezekiel 14:14 (where other names are thus connected). MOSES. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 17:11;...
Jeremiah 15:1. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me_ No advocate, however powerful his intercession, could now prevail with Me. For Moses see Exodus 33:11-14; Numbers 14:13-20;...
THEN SAID THE LORD, &C.— This is the answer of the Lord to the fervent prayers of Jeremiah in the last chapter: "If Moses and Samuel," saith he, "could revive, and unite in their intercessions for thi...
E. The Final Rejection of Prophetic Intercession Jeremiah 15:1-9 TRANSLATION (1) And the LORD said unto me: If Moses and Samuel were standing before Me, I would have no affection for this people. Ca...
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth. MOSES AND SAMUEL - eminent in int...
MOSES (Exodus 17:11; Exodus 32:11; Numbers 14:13) and SAMUEL (1 Samuel 7:9;...
1-9. The coming woes described....
XV. (1) THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME. — With a bold and terrible anthropomorphism, the prophet again speaks as if he heard the voice of Jehovah rejecting all intercession for the apostate people. The pa...
וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י אִם ־יַעֲמֹ֨ד מֹשׁ
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
To this great appeal Jehovah again replied by declaring mercy to be impossible, and judgment inevitable, and this on account of the sin of Manasseh which had been persisted in, namely, the rejection o...
Then said the LORD to me, (a) Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth. (a) Meaning that if there...
If. The Geneva Bible reads corruptly, "Though Moses...stood," contrary to Hebrew and Greek. (Worthington) --- And Samuel. These two had shewn a particular love for the people, Exodus xxxii., and 2 Kin...
CONTENTS This is as sorrowful a Chapter as any in the prophecy. Though the last had closed with prayer, yet this begins and ends with judgment. Jeremiah 15:1 Reader! I cannot pass over this verse, w...
_THE TRUE POWER OF A NATION_ ‘Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be toward this people.’ Jeremiah 15:1 In saying these words, God recognised...
God again repeats what we have before observed, — that as the impieties and sins of the people had arrived at the highest pitch, there was no more room for pardon or for mercy: and though God seems to...
The beginning of chapter 15 is an answer to the close of chapter 14; but the instruction and the principles it contains are very remarkable. Jehovah declares that if Moses and Samuel (whose love for I...
THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME,.... In answer to his expostulations and entreaties, Jeremiah 14:19, THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL STOOD BEFORE ME; to pray before me, as the Targum; to make intercession for the...
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth. Ver. 1. _Then said the Lord...
_Then said the Lord unto me_, &c. This is the Lord's answer to the fervent prayers of Jeremiah, contained in the last four verses of the preceding chapter. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me_ By...
1-9 The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The putting of this as a case, though they should stand before him, shows that they do not, and that saints in heaven do no...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 15 The Jews rejection, and judgments, especially of four kinds; the sins which procured them, JEREMIAH 15:1. The prophet complaineth that the people curse and persecute him for these...
Jeremiah 15:1 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Moses H4872 Samuel H8050 stood H5975 (H8799) before H6440 mind...
YHWH'S RESPONSE TO JEREMIAH'S PLEA IS OF THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY AND AWFULNESS OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 15:1). In the face of Jeremiah's plea YHWH now makes clear that nothing can now stop His...
CONTENTS: Message on the drought, concluded. The people abandoned to ruin. Jeremiah complains of his hardships. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Moses, Samuel. CONCLUSION: Miserable is the case of those w...
Jeremiah 15:1. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,_ as when Moses by his prayers saved the nation, Exodus 32:11, and Samuel in Mizpeh was heard, when the Lord terrified the Philistine armies by...
_Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be towards this people._ RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE STRENGTH OF NATIONS It is of great importance that we distinguish between communities, and...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES—For _Chronology of the Chapter and Historical Facts_, see on chap. Jeremiah 10:5 _in loc_. 1. PERSONAL ALLUSIONS. Jeremiah 15:1. “_Moses and Samuel_,” here mentioned as h...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 15:1 Second rejection of Jeremiah's intercession; awfulness of the impending judgment. JEREMIAH 15:1 THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL, etc. It is a mere supposition which is here made; t...
Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go foRuth (Jeremiah 15:1). Now it is interesti...
1 Samuel 12:23; 1 Samuel 7:9; 2 Kings 17:20; Exodus 32:11; Ezekie
Cast them out — I am not able to abide the sight of them, therefore let them go forth....