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...
YOUR FATHERS CAME FORTH, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Ex. Jeremiah 12:15)....
See introd. note on the section....
Repeated substantially in ch. Jeremiah 11:7 f....
B. Persistent Obstinacy Jeremiah 7:24-28 TRANSLATION (24) But they would not hearken and they did not stretch out the ear but walked in the counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart and th...
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them: RISING UP EARLY -...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
DAILY RISING UP. — Stress is laid on the continual succession of prophets as witnesses of the Truth from the beginning. The prophet was not tied to the actual letter of his statement, and the prominen...
לְ מִן ־הַ יֹּ֗ום אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָצְא֤וּ אֲבֹֽותֵיכ
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...
Since the day that your fathers came forth from the land of Egypt to (l) this day I have even sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily (m) rising early and sending [them]: (l) Which was about...
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...
God complains of the perverse wickedness of the people, — that he had lost all his labor in endeavoring to lead them to repentance, not only in one age, but that the children succeeded their fathers i...
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...
SINCE THE DAY THAT YOUR FATHERS CAME FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT UNTO THIS DAY,.... That is, in all generations; ever since their first coming out of Egypt, they had been disobedient to the command...
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending [them]: Ver. 25. _Since the...
_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,...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, beginning with Moses, the servant of Jehovah, I HAVE EVEN SENT UNTO YOU ALL MY SERVANTS, THE PROPHETS, DAILY RISING U...
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...
God seems to upbraid them with their stock, they came of a perverse kind, their very fathers were so before them, and they have continued in their perverseness, NEHEMIAH 9:16,17; they did not now begi...
Jeremiah 7:25 day H3117 fathers H1 out H3318 (H8804) land H776 Egypt H4714 day H3117 sent H7971 ...
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...
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...
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 8:7; 1 Samuel 8:8; 2 Chronicles 36:15; Deuteronomy 9:21;...
Since the day — The church of God hath never wanted teachers raised up and sent by God....