Jeremiah 7 - Introduction
JEREMIAH 7-10. A new section begins here, containing prophecies presumably uttered in the earlier years of Jehoiakim (608- 604), except Jeremiah 10:1 *.... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH 7-10. A new section begins here, containing prophecies presumably uttered in the earlier years of Jehoiakim (608- 604), except Jeremiah 10:1 *.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 desires social justice (Jeremiah 7:6), moral conduct (Jeremiah 7:9), and wholehearted worship; otherwise... [ Continue Reading ]
THE WORSHIP OF ASTARTE. The prophet is forbidden to intercede for a people who are even now worshipping other gods, to their own deserved ruin. The cult (p. 99) described in Jeremiah 7:18 (and more fully in Jeremiah 44:15) is that of Ashtoreth (Astarte), the queen of heaven, _i.e._ the planet Venus,... [ Continue Reading ]
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 worshippers, except the blood and portions of the fat); both are mere flesh, without sacrificial value in... [ Continue Reading ]
JEREMIAH 7:29 TO JEREMIAH 8:3. MOURNING FOR JUDAH'S DEAD. Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for the desecration of Yahweh's house, and for the offering of human sacrifice, which Yahweh never ordere... [ Continue Reading ]