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Jeremiah 7:21

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, still the Lord of those who are truly His Israel, His people, but who here addresses the apostate nation: Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, the former, which were required to be wholly burned, being mingled with the latter, of which only parts were placed on the altar of burnt offerings, and eat flesh. It is a cry of disgust: So far as I am concerned, you may treat the one the same as the other; they are both equally loathsome to Me, since I despise your entire worship.

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See also Jeremiah 7:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 7:21. _PUT YOUR BURNT-OFFERINGS UNTO YOUR SACRIFICES, AND EAT_ _FLESH._] I will receive neither sacrifice nor oblation from you; therefore you may take the beasts intended for sacrifice...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The meaning is, Increase your sacrifices as you will. Acid burnt-offering to peace-offerings. All is in vain as long as you neglect the indispensable requirements of obedience and moral purity. Eat fl...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    OBEDIENCE NECESSARY, NOT SACRIFICE. Yahweh scornfully tells these formal worshippers to eat even the burnt-offering (wholly offered to God), as well as the peace-offering (which was eaten by the worsh...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PUT. Add. SACRIFICES. Hebrew. _zabach._ App-43....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices_ Burnt offerings were consumed whole, while of sacrifices certain portions were reserved to be eaten by the priest and the offerer. Accordingly the sense...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    See introd. note on the section....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    PUT YOUR BURNT-OFFERINGS, &C.— Houbigant renders this, _Put together your burnt-offerings with your peace-offerings; and eat their flesh._ The meaning is, "Eat your sacrifices yourselves, your burnt-o...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    III. PRIORITIES IN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:21-28 As Jeremiah looks at the current religious observances he sees only perfunctory compliance with outward ritual (Jeremiah 7:21). He reminds his listeners tha...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. PUT YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO YOUR SACRIFICES ... EAT FLESH - Add the former (which th...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PUT YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS, etc.] Multiply your victims _ad libitum._ It will avail you nought. 22, 23. This need not be more than a forcible oratorical expression, not meaning that no ceremonial laws w...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    PUT YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS. — i.e., “Add one kind of sacrifice to another. Offer the victim, and then partake of the sacrificial feast. All is fruitless, unless there be the true conditions of acceptanc...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֹ֖ות אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

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

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Flesh. I reject your holocausts. Keep them for yourselves. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pause, not to interrupt the Reader in the progress of these verses, they are all to the same amount as the former. How pathetically the Prophet mourns the obstinacy of his people! Surely ministers o...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet here taunts the Jews for being so sedulous in their attention to sacrifices, while they had no care for piety. Hence he says by way of ridicule, “Offer your sacrifices, and accumulate burn...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... The Lord of armies above and below, and the covenant God of the people of Israel; who were bound to serve him, not only by the laws of creation...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Ver. 21. _Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh._] _Congerite, inge...

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

    _Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel_ And let Israel hear when their God speaks _Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh_ The burnt-offerings, after they were flayed,...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    21-28 God shows that obedience was required of them. That which God commanded was, Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God. The promise is very encouraging. Let God's will be your rule, an...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The ironical words of one that seems to be in a great rage: Take those that are peculiar, and to be all burnt to me, LEVITICUS 1:9, and put them to your own of what kind soever; eat them, and do what...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 7:21 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 Add H5595 (H8798) offerings...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH EXPLAINS TO JEREMIAH WHY HE SEES HIS PEOPLE AS HAVING GONE BEYOND WHAT WAS ACCEPTABLE, AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MUST INEVITABLY BE, BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY REFUSED TO HEAR HIS VOICE (JEREMI...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 7:21. _Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I b...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Amos 5:21; Hosea 8:13; Isaiah 1:11; Jeremiah 6:20...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Put — Ironical words, take those that are peculiar, and to be all burnt to me, and do what you will with them, I will have none of them. To your sacrifices — That part of your sacrifices, which you ar...

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