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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...
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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
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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...
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THE CARCASES, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:26).
FRAY. frighten: from Fr. _effrayer._...
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B. The Future Destruction Jeremiah 7:32 to Jeremiah 8:3
TRANSLATION
(32) Therefore behold, days are coming (oracle of the LORD) when it
shall no longer be called the Topheth or the valley of the son...
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And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them
away.
FRAY - scare or frighten (this verse is quoted from ). Typ...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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NONE SHALL FRAY THEM AWAY. — No picture could be more appalling in
its horrors — streets and valleys filled with the bodies of the
slain, vultures and jackals feeding on them, and not one hand raised,...
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וְֽ הָ֨יְתָ֜ה נִבְלַ֨ת הָ עָ֤ם הַ
זֶּה֙
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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
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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...
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Tophet had been a remarkable place on several occasions. It was called
Tophet because it had been a place of slaughter. And it had been a
charnel house, or sepulchre for burying in; and also a place o...
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Jeremiah threatens them with something more grievous than death
itself, — that God would impress the marks of his wrath even on
their dead bodies. It is indeed true what a heathen poet says,
_“That t...
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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...
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AND THE CARCASSES OF THIS PEOPLE SHALL BE MEAT FOR THE FOWLS OF THE
HEAVEN, AND FOR THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH,.... That is, those which
remain unburied, for which there will be found no place to bury th...
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And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray [them]
away.
Ver. 33. _And the carcases of this people,_] _a_ Their mur...
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Jer. 7:33. "And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the
fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth, and none shall fray
them away." As this Tophet here spoken of represents hell, so t...
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_It shall be no more called Tophet, but The valley of Slaughter_ King
Josiah first of all _defiled_ this place, as the text speaks, 2 Kings
23:10; that is, polluted it by burying dead bodies in it, by...
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THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
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And the carcasses of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the
heaven, the birds of prey, particularly the buzzards, feeding on the
unburied corpses, AND FOR THE BEASTS OF THE EARTH, AND NONE SHA...
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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...
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The _birds_ and _beasts of prey_ shall feed on them, being exposed to
open view for want of interment, JEREMIAH 19:7, AND NONE SHALL FRAY
THEM AWAY; (a piece of humanity that even nature itself teache...
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Jeremiah 7:33 corpses H5038 people H5971 food H3978 birds H5775 heaven
H8064 beasts H929 earth H776 frighten H2729 ...
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CARCASES
See (Jeremiah 19:11); (2 Kings 23:10); (Ezekiel 6:5). Fulfilled in
part in all the destructions of Jerusalem, but with a final look
toward ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 28:26; Ezekiel 39:18; Ezekiel 39:4; Jeremiah 12:9;...