Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Jeremiah 7:1-2
Absence from the LXX of all but "Hear … ye of Judah" suggests the probability that the rest has been supplied by an editor from ch. 26.
Absence from the LXX of all but "Hear … ye of Judah" suggests the probability that the rest has been supplied by an editor from ch. 26.
CHAPTER VII _Here begins another section of prophecy, ending with the ninth_ _chapter. It opens with exhorting to amendment of life, without_ _which the confidence of the Jews in their temple is de...
In Jer. 7–10 he addresses the people as they flocked into Jerusalem from the country, to attend the solemn services in the temple upon a fastday. Jehoiakim Jeremiah 26 had just ascended the throne, an...
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
THE TEMPLE SERMON. The prophet is sent to the gate of the Temple, to rebuke the false confidence of Yahweh's worshippers in the possession of this block of buildings (these, Jeremiah 7:4). Yahweh desi...
JEREMIAH'S SIXTH PROPHECY (see Book comments for Jeremiah). CAME. The danger attending this message is shown in Jeremiah 26. Compare Jeremiah 7:2 with Jeremiah 26:2;...
THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH— We have here a new discourse, which reaches to the 13th chapter, wherein the prophet declaims against the vices of Judah and Jerusalem, particularly their hypocrisy and...
CHAPTER SEVEN SERMONS ON WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:1 to Jeremiah 8:3 The dating of the materials in this section is a vexing problem. Laetsch assigns this section to the days of king Josiah early in the mi...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, The prophet stood at the gate of the temple, in order that the multitudes from the country might hear him. His life was threatened, it appears...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
VII. (1) This chapter and the three that follow form again another great prophetic sermon, delivered to the crowds that flocked to the Temple. There is nothing in the discourse which absolutely fixes...
הַ דָּבָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר הָיָ֣ה אֶֽל ־יִרְמְיָ֔הוּ...
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...
CONTENTS Here seems to be the opening of a new Sermon of the Prophet's: but the same subject. The Prophet reproves Judah, and admonisheth to return to the Lord....
It appears by the subject of the Prophet's sermon, that the men of Judah, while destitute of vital godliness, were much taken up with the form of it: and though without the love of God in their heart,...
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...
THE WORD THAT CAME TO JEREMIAH,.... The Word of prophecy, as the Targum: FROM THE LORD, SAYING; this begins a new prophecy. This verse, and the beginning of the next, are wanting in the Septuagint ve...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Ver. 1. _The word that came to Jeremiah._] A new sermon, but to the same purpose as the former. See on Jeremiah 1:2. _Toto libro idem argumentum...
_The word of the Lord_, &c. The date of this new sermon is not precisely marked, but it is probable it was delivered not long after the preceding one, and on the following occasion. “Besides the proph...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, the fact that he received his messages by inspiration of God being brought out time and again, SAYING,...
GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE...
1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the prac...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 7. A call to true repentance, JEREMIAH 7:1; and not, living in theft, murder, adultery, perjury, &c.. to trust in the outward worship and temple of God, by the example of Shiloh, JERE...
Jeremiah 7:1 word H1697 Jeremiah H3414 LORD H3068 saying H559 (H8800)...
JUDAH MUST NOT TRUST IN THE PRESENCE OF THE TEMPLE FOR SECURITY BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THEIR EVIL WAYS YHWH INTENDS TO DO TO THE TEMPLE WHAT HE DID TO HIS HOUSE AT SHILOH, DESTROY IT (JEREMIAH 7:1). A...
THE WORD THAT CAME The general character of the message in the temple gate is, like the first and second messages, one of rebuke, warning, and exhortation, but this message is addressed more to such...
Jeremiah 7:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that ente...
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...
_Stand in the gate. .. and proclaim._ BOLDNESS IN PREACHING Some preachers are traders from port to port, following the customary and approved course; others adventure over the whole ocean of human c...
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
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...
Jeremiah 7:1...