Their forefathers - literally, “their fathers, the first ones:” in allusion to the idolatries committed in the wilderness, and by the generations whose history is given in the Book of Judges.
And they went after - Rather, yea! they have walked “after other gods to serve them.” The “they” refers to the men of Jeremiah’s day.
Verse Jeremiah 11:10. _THEY ARE TURNED BACK TO THE INIQUITIES OF THEIR_ _FOREFATHERS_] A great reformation had taken place under the reign of Josiah, and the public worship of idols had been abolishe...
CHAPTER 11 The Broken Covenant and the Plot Against Jeremiah _ 1. The broken covenant (Jeremiah 11:1) _ 2. The plot revealed and Jehovah's answer (Jeremiah 11:18) Jeremiah 11:1. Jehovah
INIQUITIES. Hebrew. _'avah_. App-44. went. are gone. THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 2:4. THE HOUSE OF JUDAH. See note on Jeremiah 3:18....
The Northern kingdom's apostasy and consequent punishment were already of long standing. Now Judah has followed their example in faithlessness to Jehovah, and has "turned back" after an interval of we...
Judah has fallen back into apostasy. It is now clear that Josiah's reforms have had no lasting results. The passage may therefore be placed in Jehoiakim's reign....
See summary at commencement of section....
B. Exposure of the Conspiracy Jeremiah 11:9-17 TRANSLATION (9) And the LORD said unto me: Conspiracy is found among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (10) They have returned to the i...
_THEY ARE TURNED BACK TO THE INIQUITIES OF THEIR FOREFATHERS, WHICH REFUSED TO HEAR MY WORDS; AND THEY WENT_ _ THEY ARE TURNED BACK TO THE INIQUITIES OF THEIR FOREFATHERS, WHICH REFUSED TO HEAR MY WOR...
1-14. Punishment must follow faithlessness....
THE INIQUITIES OF THEIR FOREFATHERS] referring to the idolatry in the wilderness days. THEY WENT AFTER] RV 'they are gone after,' viz. the Jews of the prophet's own day. The reformation had not taken...
THEIR FOREFATHERS. — The Hebrew is more specific — _their first fathers_ (as in Isaiah 43:27), with special reference to the idolatries of the forty years’ wandering and the first settlement in Canaan...
שָׁ֩בוּ֩ עַל ־עֲוֹנֹ֨ת אֲבֹותָ֜ם הָ רִֽאשֹׁנִ֗ים...
CHAPTER VII THE BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 THERE is no visible break between these two Chapter s. They seem to summarise the history of a particular episode in the prophet's car...
THE PENALTY OF A BROKEN COVENANT Jeremiah 11:1-20 This and the following two Chapter s belong to the earlier ministry of Jeremiah, when he still dwelt in his native home of Anathoth. The prophet refe...
He then proceeded to deal with the broken Covenant. There came to him from the Lord a special word commissioning him to pronounce a curse on "the man that heareth not the words of this covenant." To t...
_To them, for a long time. Yet they must not despair, or have recourse to idols, (ver. 12.) or witches, 1 Kings xxviii._...
Was there ever a more pitiable view of degeneracy, than Judah here affords? Was this the great and understanding people, that was once the astonishment and envy of the whole earth? What? had they inde...
He also adds, that they _had returned, etc. _He shews for what purpose they had conspired, even to _return to the vices of their fathers, who had been before them _Some render the word “ancestors;” bu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 11 AND 12. Chapter 11 suggests some observations. God addresses Himself again to Israel on the ground of their responsibility, reminding them of the call to o...
THEY ARE TURNED BACK TO THE INIQUITIES OF THEIR FOREFATHERS,.... According to Kimchi, this prophecy was delivered out in the times of Jehoiakim. There had been a reformation in the reign of Josiah, bu...
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my cov...
_And the Lord said, A conspiracy is found_, &c. Namely, by him whose eye is upon the hidden works of darkness. There is a combination formed among them against God and religion, a dangerous design to...
They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, by which Israelites of the former generations heaped guilt upon themselves, WHICH REFUSED TO HEAR MY WORDS, deliberately combining to deny...
Israel's Conspiracy Against the Lord and its Punishment...
1-10 God never promised to bestow blessings on his rational creatures, while they persist in wilful disobedience. Pardon and acceptance are promised freely to all believers; but no man can be saved w...
THEY ARE TURNED BACK from me, or they are turned back from their own better courses in the time of David, _to the sins of their forefathers_ that worshipped the golden calf, or the many idols which th...
Jeremiah 11:10 back H7725 (H8804) iniquities H5771 forefathers H7223 H1 refused H3985 (H8765) hear...
YHWH CALLS ON HIS PEOPLE TO HEAR THE WORD OF HIS COVENANT AND REMINDS THEM OF THE COVENANT CURSE WHICH FALLS ON ALL WHO FAIL TO OBSERVE IT, BUT THEN DRAWS ATTENTION TO THEIR FAILURE TO OBSERVE IT, IND...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message on the broken covenant. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those who enter into solemn covenant with God must expect on their part to fulfill the conditions, else He...
Jeremiah 11:14. _Pray not thou for this people._ The Chaldaic and the LXX, Deprecate not the scourge of war coming upon them. We find the same sentiments more fully expressed in Ezekiel 14., confirmin...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 11:1 Jeremiah’s Struggles with God and Judah. As the nation faces invasion, Jeremiah struggles to serve God faithfully. He is surprised by opposition ...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 11:10 INIQUITIES OF THEIR FOREFATHERS. Idolatry committed with the golden calf (Exodus 32:1), Baal ...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The “covenant” summarised in Jeremiah 11:2 refers to the nation’s renewal of vows with Jehovah upon the Book of the Law being discovered du...
EXPOSITION The superscription in Jeremiah 11:1 evidently belongs to the three chapters 11-13, though Jeremiah 11:1 and Jeremiah 12:1 are more closely connected with each other than with...
Shall we turn to Jeremiah the eleventh chapter as we continue our study through the book of Jeremiah. Chapter 11 begins a new section of the book, not a whole new division, but it's a new message, and...
1 Samuel 15:11; 2 Chronicles 34:30; 2 Kings 17:7; Acts 7:51; Acts