Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 23:30
That steal — That conspire together what to say to deceive the people, and so steal what they say one from another.
That steal — That conspire together what to say to deceive the people, and so steal what they say one from another.
Verse Jeremiah 23:30. _I_ AM _AGAINST THE PROPHETS_] Three cases are mentioned here which excited God's disapprobation: 1. The prophets who _stole_ _the word_ from their neighbour; who associated wit...
Jeremiah gives in succession the main characteristics of the teaching of the false prophets. The first is that they steal God’s words from one another. Having no message from God, they try to imitate...
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...
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)...
I AM AGAINST, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 18:20)....
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...
_steal my words_ They have themselves no revelation to impart, and therefore proclaim as their own that which has been said by the really inspired....
See introd. summary to section....
THAT STEAL MY WORDS, &C.— _Who hide my word, every one,_ &c. Houbigant; who also renders the latter part of the next verse, _Who make their tongues soft, and utter smooth words._ See Psalms 50:16....
3. _The methods of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:23-32) TRANSLATION (23) Am I a God near at hand (oracle of the LORD), and not a God far off? (24) Can a man hide himself in secret places that I am...
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. I AM AGAINST THE PROPHETS ... THAT STEAL MY WORDS - a two-fold plagiarism; one steals...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
THAT STEAL MY WORDS... — Another note of the counterfeit prophet is found in the want of any living personal originality. The oracles of the dreamers were patchworks of plagiarism, and they borrowed,...
לָכֵ֛ן הִנְנִ֥י עַל ־הַ נְּבִאִ֖ים נְאֻם ־יְה
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...
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...
Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that (z) steal my words every one from his neighbour. (z) Who set forth in my Name that which I have not commanded....
CHAPTER XXIII. _ Neighbour, causing those whom I have sent to be disregarded._...
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...
Jeremiah returns again to the false teachers, who were the authors of all the evils; for they fascinated the people with their flatteries, so that every regard for sound and heavenly doctrine was almo...
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...
THEREFORE, BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST THE PROPHETS, SAITH THE LORD,.... The false prophets, with whom the Lord was displeased; he set himself against them, and was determined to bring wrath and ruin on th...
Therefore, behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Ver. 30. _Behold, I am against those prophets._] Heb., Behold, I against, by an angry...
_Behold, I am against the prophets that steal my words_, &c. “That imitate the true prophets, speaking in my name, as they do, and saying, _Thus saith the Lord_, (see Jeremiah 23:31,) and using their...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
Therefore, because the false prophets were practicing deceit and seducing the people, BEHOLD, I AM AGAINST THE PROPHETS, SAITH THE LORD, THAT STEAL MY WORDS, EVERY ONE FROM HIS NEIGHBOR. They appropri...
23-32 Men cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves? Let them consider what a vast difference there is between these prophecies and th...
There are various opinions as to what the prophet meaneth here by those prophets that _stole the Lord's words_ from their neighbours. Some, by their NEIGHBOUR, understanding the true prophets, from wh...
Jeremiah 23:30 prophets H5030 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 steal H1589 (H8764) words H1697 one H376 neighbor...
YHWH REJECTS THE TESTIMONY OF THE FALSE JERUSALEM PROPHETS AND REVEALS HIMSELF AS THE ALL-KNOWING ONE), CONDEMNING THE TEMPLE PROPHETS AS FALSE DREAMERS WHO CAUSE THE PEOPLE TO ERR. THEY ARE IN DIRECT...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Peter 3:12; Deuteronomy 18:20; Deuteronomy 29:20; Ezekiel 13:20;...