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...
See introd. note on the section....
_made their neck stiff_ Cp. for the phrase ch. Jeremiah 19:15; 2 Kings 17:14; Nehemiah 9:16-17; Nehemiah 9:29;...
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...
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. HARDENED THEIR NECK - ( "I know ... thy stiff neck;" , "Thy neck is an iron sinew...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
WORSE THAN THEIR FATHERS. — The rapid survey of the past makes it doubtful whether the comparison is made between the generations that came out of Egypt and their immediate followers, or between those...
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...
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...
He afterwards subjoins, _And they hearkened not _There is here a change of person; for he said in the last verse, “_your _fathers,” “I sent to _you_; ” but now he says, _They hearkened not, nor inclin...
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...
YET THEY HEARKENED NOT UNTO ME,.... Speaking by the prophets: NOR INCLINED THEIR EAR; to what was said to them; would not listen to it, and much less obey what was commanded them: BUT HARDENED THEIR...
Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers. Ver. 26. _Yet they hearkened not unto me._] This God speaketh to the prophet, as we...
_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...
yet they hearkened not unto Me nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck, like a stubborn ox under the yoke, Deuteronomy 31:27; THEY DID WORSE THAN THEIR FATHERS, the later generations, particul...
THE JUDGMENT PRONOUNCED...
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...
Their fathers had done bad enough, but they were so far from reforming, that they did worse than their fathers, JUDGES 2:19, JEREMIAH 9:3; and whereas he had said before _your_ fathers, now changing t...
Jeremiah 7:26 obey H8085 (H8804) incline H5186 (H8689) ear H241 stiffened H7185 (H8686) neck H6203 worse...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:25 Starting with Moses (Deuteronomy 34:10), God sent his SERVANTS THE PROPHETS to instruct, encourage, and warn Israel. With
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 30:8; 2 Chronicles 33:10; 2 Kings 17:14; Acts 7:51;...