Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 7:30
In the house — It was not enough to have their idols abroad in the hills and groves, but they must bring them into God's house.
In the house — It was not enough to have their idols abroad in the hills and groves, but they must bring them into God's house.
Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before t...
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
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 t...
EVIL. Hebrew. _ra'a'_. App-44. IN THE HOUSE. Note the enormity of the evil. WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME. whereon My name was called....
_they have set their abominations_ as Manasseh had done (2 Kings 21:5; 2 Kings 21:7)....
IV. POLLUTED WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3 Again Jeremiah takes up the subject of paganized worship. He speaks of the present defilement of the population of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 7:29), of the...
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. SET THEIR ABOMINATIONS IN THE HOUSE -...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
IN THE HOUSE WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME. — This had been done by Ahaz (2 Chronicles 28:2), and after the Temple had been cleansed by Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 29:5) had been repeated by Manasseh (2 Kings...
כִּֽי ־עָשׂ֨וּ בְנֵי ־יְהוּדָ֥ה הָ רַ֛ע בְּ
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...
_Abominations. Hebrew. We have literally, "stumbling-blocks," offendicula. (Haydock) --- Manasses placed idols in the very temple, as the last kings of Juda did, 4 Kings xxiii. 4., and Ezechiel viii....
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...
Lest the Jews should murmur and complain that God was too rigorous, the Prophet adds, that they were not given up to destruction without the justest reasons. How so? They had _done evil _To do evil he...
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 THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH HAVE DONE EVIL IN MY SIGHT, SAITH THE LORD,.... Meaning not a single action only, but a series, a course of evil actions; and those openly, in a daring manner, not only befor...
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it. Ver. 30. _They have set their abominatio...
_They have set up their abominations_, &c. They have set up images and altars for idolatrous worship even in my temple, and the courts near it. This seems to be spoken of what was done in the times of...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight, saith the Lord, things which are loathsome before His eyes; THEY HAVE SET THEIR ABOMINATIONS, altars for the host of heaven and graven images of v...
29-34 In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him. The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but...
THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH; either Judah's posterity, JOSHUA 14:6, or Judah's inhabitants, which are often called _their children_; so JER 2 16. _In my sight_, i.e. though they will not see it, yet I see i...
Jeremiah 7:30 children H1121 Judah H3063 done H6213 (H8804) evil H7451 sight H5869 says H5002 (H8803) LORD...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:15; 2 Chronicles 33:4; 2 Chronicles 33:5; 2 Chronicles 33:7;...