Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 7:22
For — God doth not condemn these offerings, save only comparatively in respect of obedience, not so much these, as obeying his commands.
For — God doth not condemn these offerings, save only comparatively in respect of obedience, not so much these, as obeying his commands.
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
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...
I SPAKE NOT... CONCERNING... SACRIFICES. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 15:26; Exodus 19:5), which was _before any law was given._ This vindicates the passage from modern criticism. Compare Leviticus...
See introd. note on the section....
The passage is of the highest importance in its bearing on the epochs at which the different parts of the Pentateuch were severally composed. It is now held to be made up from elements of very diverse...
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...
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...
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: FOR I SPAKE NOT UNTO YOUR FATHERS, NOR COMMA...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
I SPAKE NOT... CONCERNING BURNT OFFERINGS OR SACRIFICES. — “Concerning” is, literally, _for,_ or _with a view to, the matter of sacrifices._ The words seem at first hard to reconcile with the multipli...
כִּ֠י לֹֽא ־דִבַּ֤רְתִּי אֶת ־אֲבֹֽותֵיכֶם֙ וְ...
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
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...
For (k) I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: (k) Showing that it was not his chief purpos...
I commanded them not: viz., such sacrifices as the Jews at this time offered without obedience; which was the thing principally commanded: so that in comparison with it, the offering of the holocausts...
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...
The Prophet therefore adds, _I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them, in the day I brought them forth from the land of Egypt, concerning sacrifices or burnt _—_offerings: but this only I comma...
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...
FOR I SPAKE NOT UNTO YOUR FATHERS,.... Meaning not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Moses, Aaron, and others, who were living at the time of the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt, as appea...
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Ver. 22. _For I spake not unto your fathers._]...
_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,...
For I spake not unto your fathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices, it was not His object to establish a mere externa...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
CONCERNING: _ Heb._ concerning the matter of...
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...
Some would argue from hence that sacrifices were at first an invention of men, as papists and Socinians; and because they should not be used to idols, God gave way for the introducing them into his wo...
Jeremiah 7:22 speak H1696 (H8765) fathers H1 command H6680 (H8765) day H3117 out H3318 (H8687) land...
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...
NOR COMMANDED (_ See Scofield) - (Exodus 20:4), note 2, _ the threefold giving of the law. The command concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices was not given to the people till they had broken the...
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...
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...
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...
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
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:22 Acceptable sacrifices are based on a right relationship created by faith in the God who delivers (Exodus 19:3). Only those who believe will obey
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...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 15:22; Hosea 6:6; Mark 12:33; Matthew 9:13; Psalms 40:6;...