JEREMIAH CHAPTER 11. God's covenant, JEREMIAH 11:1. Their disobedience, JEREMIAH 11:8. Evils to come on them, JEREMIAH 11:11, and on the men of Anathoth, for conspiring to kill Jeremiah, JEREMIAH 11:18. What time and in what manner this revelation came from God to the prophet is not expressed, wheth... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAR YE THE WORDS OF THIS COVENANT: God speaking in the plural number, not _hear thou_, but _hear ye_, makes some conjecture that this was a charge given to some other prophets, either, Zephaniah (if it were in Josiah's time, ZEPHANIAH 1:1) or Uriah (if it were in the time of Jehoiakim). The term TH... [ Continue Reading ]
In DEUTERONOMY 27:26, it is, _Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen_. The people's saying _Amen_ testified their assent, and made the law a covenant; but they had besides formally and explicitly covenanted with God, EXODUS 24:3,7, w... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH I COMMANDED YOUR FATHERS, which law (that you by your restipulation made a formal covenant) I that am the Lord, and so had a sovereign power to lay laws upon my creatures, commanded your fathers, _in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace_; and oblige... [ Continue Reading ]
I required their obedience for their own good; I had sworn to their fathers that I would give their posterity a land abounding with plenty of all good things, the best and choicest things, upon supposition of their obedience. I have performed that oath, I have brought them into such a land, and show... [ Continue Reading ]
Let it be thy work to call upon this people, not only to hear, but to do, the words which I have commanded them, and they have engaged to do.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ In protesting I protested_, a usual way in the Hebrew, by which they express the seriousness and vehemency of an action. By _protesting_ he meaneth the same with charging and commanding, with promises annexed to obedience, and threatenings denounced in case of disobedience. This God saith he had d... [ Continue Reading ]
But had not hearkened unto his counsels, but every one had walked after the imaginations of his own heart. A phrase by which sin is often expressed in holy writ, DEUTERONOMY 29:19 JEREMIAH 3:17, JEREMIAH 7:24 9:14 13:10 16:12 18:12 23:17. The imaginations of man's heart are only evil, GENESIS 6:5, G... [ Continue Reading ]
All sorts of people, whether of the city or country, have done alike, as if they had conspired together to break my law, and to provoke me to wrath, they are all alike and act alike. The thing is manifest, it is not done secretly, nor is it done rashly, but upon a conspiracy, upon counsel and delibe... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY ARE TURNED BACK from me, or they are turned back from their own better courses in the time of David, _to the sins of their forefathers_ that worshipped the golden calf, or the many idols which they worshipped in the time of the judges. They are all alike, both the ten tribes, which were THE HOU... [ Continue Reading ]
EVIL UPON THEM WHICH THEY SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO ESCAPE; a judgment from which they shall by no means be delivered, by any counsels of their own, or assistance of their friends and allies. AND THOUGH THEY SHALL CRY UNTO ME, I WILL NOT HEARKEN UNTO THEM; and though prayer to me hath been their usual co... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL here signifieth _will_, and might as well have been so translated, denoting the hardness of the hearts of this people, whom affliction would not reduce to God; or rather the indicative mood is here put for the imperative, and the sense, Let THE CITIES OF JUDAH, & c., and the phrase taken ironi... [ Continue Reading ]
Not that they had just so many idols as were cities in Judah, or altars as were streets in Jerusalem; the meaning is, they had very many, and that the people who lived in every city and street were guilty. What he calls _their shame_, or the shameful thing, is afterwards expounded _Baal_, called _a... [ Continue Reading ]
Once before, and we shall find once after this, JEREMIAH 14:11, God forbiddeth the prophet to _pray for this people_; hence ariseth a question how the prophet is excused from sin, in praying for them after this prohibition, especially when God had assured him that he would not hear. SOLUT. 1. God ... [ Continue Reading ]
Some make these words the words of the prophet, declaring that God (whom they suppose here called the _beloved_) was about to forsake the temple. Others make them the words of God, speaking of his prophet, whom he calleth his beloved; or rather, speaking of his people, whom he calleth _his beloved_,... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, the Lord fixed thee when he brought thee first into Canaan, in a beautiful flourishing state and condition, so as thou wert in a capacity both to have done thyself much good, and to have brought him much glory, like a beautiful fair olive tree, fit to bear fair and goodly fruit. But thou ha... [ Continue Reading ]
This verse expounds what was metaphorically expressed in the former verse, viz. that God had declared his will to his prophet; that he would destroy his people, the blame of which must lie upon themselves, for they had by idolatry most highly provoked him, and had therein done against themselves, as... [ Continue Reading ]
This may be understood either more generally, as relating to all the wicked actions of his countrymen, to obviate their saying, How comest thou to know our doings? or else (which seemeth most probable) more specially, with relation to that conspiracy against him which is mentioned in the following v... [ Continue Reading ]
We have no other mention of this conspiracy in holy writ, but it is plain, both from this verse and what followeth to the end of this chapter, that the men of Anathoth (which was Jeremiah's own town) were offended at his prophesying so sharp things against the land of Judah, and had threatened to ki... [ Continue Reading ]
The prophet appealeth to God, and appealeth to him as one that knew both the innocency of his heart toward them, and the malice of their hearts toward him, and used to deal out justice impartially, and committeth his cause unto God, (as we are commanded, 1 PETER 2:23) and desires that God would aven... [ Continue Reading ]
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The prayers of God's prophets, though they may sometimes have too much passion and human infirmity mixed with them, yet are heard of God, and many times answered in righteousness by terrible things, as to those against whom they are directed. The same thing they designed to do against the prophet Go... [ Continue Reading ]