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ROBBERS - literally, tearers, those who rob with violence. The temple
was the place which sheltered them. It had been consecrated to God.
Now that it harbors miscreants, must it not as inevitably be d...
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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 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...
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IS THIS HOUSE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ This passage used by
our Lord, just as Isaiah 56:7 was in Matthew 21:13.Mark 11:17; Luke
19:46....
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See introd. note on the section....
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_den of robbers_ a place of retreat in the intervals between acts of
violence. Caves in Palestine were often used thus. This _v_. is
alluded to in Matthew 21:13, and the parallel passages (Mark 11:17...
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B. A Fallacious Assumption Jeremiah 7:8-11
TRANSLATION
(8) Behold, you are trusting in the words of the worthless lie. (9)
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, sware falsely, offer incense
to Baa...
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Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in
your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
IS THIS HOUSE ... CALLED BY MY NAME, BECOME A DEN OF ROBBERS - Do you...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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DEN OF ROBBERS] a place of retreat in the intervals between acts of
violence: see Matthew 21:13 and parallel passages....
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A DEN OF ROBBERS. — The words had a special force in a country like
Palestine, where the limestone rocks presented many caves, which, like
that of Adullam (1 Samuel 22:1), were the refuge of outlaws a...
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הַ מְעָרַ֣ת פָּרִצִ֗ים הָיָ֨ה הַ
בַּ֧יִת הַ
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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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Is this house, which is called by my name, become (c) a den of robbers
in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD.
(c) As thieves hidden in holes and dens think themselves safe, so w...
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_Robbers. Our Saviour alludes to this, Matthew xxi. 13. --- Seen.
Think not to hide yourselves, as in a den. My temple shall not be an
asylum for wretches. (Calmet)_...
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From what is said in these verses of men talking as if delivered to do
evil, it should seem, that there were in the Prophet's days, as well
as in ours, persons who took occasion from the doctrine of f...
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He afterwards adds, _Is this house, which is called by my name, a den
of robbers? _This is the conclusion of the passage, which contains an
amplification of their vices. For the Prophet had allowed th...
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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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IS THIS HOUSE, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME,.... Meaning the temple:
BECOME A DEN OF ROBBERS IN YOUR EYES? or do you look upon it, and make
use of it, as thieves do of dens; who, when they have robbed...
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_Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in
your eyes? Behold, even I have seen [it], saith the LORD._
Ver. 11. _Is this house, which is called by my name._] Is it become
_...
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_Behold, ye trust in lying words_ Uttered by your false prophets, who
promise you peace, and sooth you up in your impenitence. _Will ye
steal, murder_, &c. Jeremiah does not charge them with the
trans...
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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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ROBBERS, Heb. _breakers through_. The word is taken in a large notion
for all sorts of plunderers, whether in house, EZEKIEL 7:22, or field,
highway-men, DANIEL 11:14. Do yon look upon this house as a...
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Jeremiah 7:11 house H1004 called H7121 (H8738) name H8034 den H4631
thieves H6530 eyes H5869 seen H7200 ...
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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...
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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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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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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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2 Chronicles 6:33; Hebrews 4:13; Isaiah 56:7; Jeremiah 16:16;...
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A den — Do you look upon this house as a sanctuary for robbers and
murderers....