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Jeremiah 23:18

For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord, when He made His plans concerning the punishment of the wicked, and hath perceived and heard His Word? The answer implied is an emphatic no, so far as the false prophets are concerned. Who hath marked His Word and heard it? The prophet again denies that any of these false, self-appointed prophets can be mouthpieces of Jehovah. Jeremiah, on the contrary, now proclaims a word of the Lord which is entirely different in content from the inventions of the false prophets.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 23:18. _WHO HATH STOOD IN THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD_] Who of _them_ has ever received a word of prophecy from me? _My word_ is not _in_ _them_....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The prophet now applies this test to the circumstances of the times. A whirlwind has already gone forth Jeremiah 23:19. Had these false prophets stood in God’s secret “Council” (so in Jeremiah 23:22),...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ Implying that none hath. COUNSEL. secret council. Compare Psalms 25:14. HIS. Hebrew text, with Revised Version, reads "My"; but margin of Hebrew text, the Babyl...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. summary to section....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _who hath stood, etc_.] not meaning that Jeremiah himself had not been admitted to the council of Jehovah, but, as the context sufficiently shews, that this had been denied to the false prophets. Cp....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _JEREMIAH 23:18_.— _For who hath stood in,_ &c.] _But who hath been present,_ &c. These are the words of Jeremiah to the false prophets, "Who of you, O false prophets, can boast of having really enter...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. _The message of the fake prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:16-22) TRANSLATION (16) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not hearken to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are causing you to...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it? FOR WHO HATH STOOD IN THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD? A reason is given why th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-4. A remnant shall return....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FOR WHO HATH STOOD, etc.] meaning that at any rate these false prophets had not done so....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE COUNSEL. — Better, perhaps, _the council,_ the “assembly” of chosen friends with whom a man shares his secret plans. So in Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 15:17; Psalms 89:7, “assembly.” Could any of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י מִ֤י עָמַד֙ בְּ סֹ֣וד יְהוָ֔ה וְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For (p) who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]? (p) Thus they derided Jeremiah as though the word of God was not re...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Counsel. Hebrew, "secret." Which of you is acquainted with his designs? I will inform you, that your perdition is at hand, ver. 20. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The verse which follows is usually thus explained, Jeremiah condemns the false teachers for their carelessness, because they attended not to the word of God, and regarded as nothing what the Law conta...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR WHO HATH STOOD IN THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD,.... These are either the words of the Prophet Jeremiah; signifying that none of the false prophets were of God's privy council, or were acquainted with h...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard [it]? Ver. 18. _For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord?_] _Quis praete...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For who hath stood in the counsel of the Lord?_ These are either the words of God expressing that none of these pretended prophets knew any thing of his designs, as he had not revealed them unto them...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    COUNSEL: Or, secret...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-22 The false prophets of Samaria had deluded the Israelites into idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem as guilty of more horrible wickedness, by which the people were...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Who besides us hath known THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD? arrogating to themselves a fellowship and acquaintance with the mind and will of God. Or, (which I should rather judge the sense,) Which of those pro...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 23:18 stood H5975 (H8804) counsel H5475 LORD H3068 perceived H7200 (H8799) heard H8085 (H8799) word...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    2). YHWH CALUMNIATES THE FALSE PROPHETS AND QUESTIONS WHAT THEY TEACH, EXPLAINING WHAT THE RESULTS OF THEIR PROPHESYING WILL BE, AND EMPHASISING THAT THEY WERE NOT SENT OR ENLIGHTENED BY HIM (JEREMIAH...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 2:16; 1 Kings 22:24; 2 Chronicles 18:23; Amos 3:7;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For who — Which of those prophets, that prophesy such terrible things against this city is a privy — counsellor to God? The words seem to be the words of the false prophets....

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