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Jeremiah 15:1

Jeremiah 15:1. Though Moses and Samuel stood before me No advocate, however powerful his intercession, could now prevail with Me. For Moses see Exodus 33:11-14; Numbers 14:13-20; Deuteronomy 9:18-20; Deuteronomy 9:25-29, and for Samuel 1Sa 7:9; 1 Samuel 12:23; cp. these two united in a similar connexion of thought in Psalms 99:6.

stood before For the phrase in this sense of intercession cp. Jeremiah 18:20; Genesis 18:22; Genesis 19:27. For a different sense see on Jeremiah 15:19.

my mind could not be toward I could not incline with favour towards.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XV _God declares to Jeremiah that not even Moses and Samuel, whose_ _prayers had been so prevalent, could divert him from his_ _purpose of punishing so wicked a people_, 1. _Accordingly th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CAST THEM OUT OF MY SIGHT - Rather, “send them out of My presence, and let them go away.” The prophet is to dismiss them, because their mediators, Moses and Samuel, whose intercession had been accepte...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEN: or, And. MOSES AND SAMUEL. See Psalms 99:6 and Ezekiel 14:14 (where other names are thus connected). MOSES. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 17:11;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEN SAID THE LORD, &C.— This is the answer of the Lord to the fervent prayers of Jeremiah in the last chapter: "If Moses and Samuel," saith he, "could revive, and unite in their intercessions for thi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. The Final Rejection of Prophetic Intercession Jeremiah 15:1-9 TRANSLATION (1) And the LORD said unto me: If Moses and Samuel were standing before Me, I would have no affection for this people. Ca...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MOSES (Exodus 17:11; Exodus 32:11; Numbers 14:13) and SAMUEL (1 Samuel 7:9;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-9. The coming woes described....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XV. (1) THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME. — With a bold and terrible anthropomorphism, the prophet again speaks as if he heard the voice of Jehovah rejecting all intercession for the apostate people. The pa...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י אִם ־יַעֲמֹ֨ד מֹשׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    To this great appeal Jehovah again replied by declaring mercy to be impossible, and judgment inevitable, and this on account of the sin of Manasseh which had been persisted in, namely, the rejection o...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then said the LORD to me, (a) Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth. (a) Meaning that if there...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    If. The Geneva Bible reads corruptly, "Though Moses...stood," contrary to Hebrew and Greek. (Worthington) --- And Samuel. These two had shewn a particular love for the people, Exodus xxxii., and 2 Kin...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    God again repeats what we have before observed, — that as the impieties and sins of the people had arrived at the highest pitch, there was no more room for pardon or for mercy: and though God seems to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The beginning of chapter 15 is an answer to the close of chapter 14; but the instruction and the principles it contains are very remarkable. Jehovah declares that if Moses and Samuel (whose love for I...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME,.... In answer to his expostulations and entreaties, Jeremiah 14:19, THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL STOOD BEFORE ME; to pray before me, as the Targum; to make intercession for the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, [yet] my mind [could] not [be] toward this people: cast [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth. Ver. 1. _Then said the Lord...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Then said the Lord unto me_, &c. This is the Lord's answer to the fervent prayers of Jeremiah, contained in the last four verses of the preceding chapter. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me_ By...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses and Samuel, who are hereby affirmed to be historical persons, STOOD BEFORE ME, the high regard in which He held these His servants tending to have Him look upo...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LORD REFUSES HELP THE SECOND TIME...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 The Lord declares that even Moses and Samuel must have pleaded in vain. The putting of this as a case, though they should stand before him, shows that they do not, and that saints in heaven do no...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH'S RESPONSE TO JEREMIAH'S PLEA IS OF THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY AND AWFULNESS OF THE COMING JUDGMENT (JEREMIAH 15:1). In the face of Jeremiah's plea YHWH now makes clear that nothing can now stop His...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Message on the drought, concluded. The people abandoned to ruin. Jeremiah complains of his hardships. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Moses, Samuel. CONCLUSION: Miserable is the case of those w...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 15:1. _Though Moses and Samuel stood before me,_ as when Moses by his prayers saved the nation, Exodus 32:11, and Samuel in Mizpeh was heard, when the Lord terrified the Philistine armies by...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be towards this people._ RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE STRENGTH OF NATIONS It is of great importance that we distinguish between communities, and...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES—For _Chronology of the Chapter and Historical Facts_, see on chap. Jeremiah 10:5 _in loc_. 1. PERSONAL ALLUSIONS. Jeremiah 15:1. “_Moses and Samuel_,” here mentioned as h...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 15:1 Second rejection of Jeremiah's intercession; awfulness of the impending judgment. JEREMIAH 15:1 THOUGH MOSES AND SAMUEL, etc. It is a mere supposition which is here made; t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then said the LORD unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go foRuth (Jeremiah 15:1). Now it is interesti...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 12:23; 1 Samuel 7:9; 2 Kings 17:20; Exodus 32:11; Ezekie

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Cast them out — I am not able to abide the sight of them, therefore let them go forth....

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