Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 23:16
How were the people to know the false prophets from the true? The former bring a message that fills with vain hopes, or “speak a vision” out of their own invention.
How were the people to know the false prophets from the true? The former bring a message that fills with vain hopes, or “speak a vision” out of their own invention.
Verse Jeremiah 23:16. _HEARKEN NOT UNTO THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS_] That is, of those who promise you _safety_, without requiring you to forsake your sins and turn unto the Lord; see Jeremiah 23:17....
CHAPTER 23:9-40 Condemnation of the False Prophets _ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah 23:9) _ 2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15) 3. Forgotten and...
THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest (Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also grievously misled t...
See introd. summary to section....
_teach you vanity_ deceive you with vain hopes, speak peace to those who are going on still in wicked courses. Cp. next _v_. This is a test whereby the false may be distinguished from the true prophet...
2. _The message of the fake prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:16-22) TRANSLATION (16) Thus says the LORD of hosts: Do not hearken to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you. They are causing you to...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD. TH...
23:16 vanity; (b-22) Or 'befool you.' see ch. 2.5, and 2 Kings 17:15 ....
1-4. A remnant shall return....
THEY MAKE YOU VAIN. — i.e., _they befool, deceive you._ As the next verse shows, they filled the people with vain hopes of peace. This was then, as always, the crucial test between the true prophet an...
כֹּֽה ־אָמַ֞ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָאֹ֗ות אַֽל ־תִּשְׁמְע֞וּ...
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1 "Of what avail is straw instead...
Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and p...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy to you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own (n) heart, [and] not from the mouth of the LORD. (n)...
_Own. To rely on private judgment, and not on the Church, is a mark of falsehood. (Worthington)_...
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them, and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
What is here said must have appeared very severe, and must have grievously offended the people; for Jeremiah forbade them to hear the teaching of the prophets. He indeed concedes to them the name of p...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, HEARKEN NOT UNTO THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS THAT PROPHESY UNTO YOU,.... Do not hear them; stop your ears at what they say; give no credit to them. The Targum is, "do not...
_Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, [and] not out of the mouth of the LORD._...
_Thus saith the Lord, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets_ People are under no religious obligation to hear what is contrary to the revealed will of God, or to obey those who enjoin things whic...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets, the leaders in wickedness, the seducers of the people, BEHOLD, I WILL FEED THEM WITH WORMWOOD AND MAKE THEM DRINK THE WATER OF GALL, po...
9-22 The false prophets of Samaria had deluded the Israelites into idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem as guilty of more horrible wickedness, by which the people were...
People are under no religious obligation to hear any thing but the revealed will of God, and are not to obey those that call to them for what that doth not call to them; nor to listen to them, the sco...
Jeremiah 23:16 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 listen H8085 (H8799) words H1697 prophets H5030 prophesy
JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9). Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those who had been distorting that visio...
2). YHWH CALUMNIATES THE FALSE PROPHETS AND QUESTIONS WHAT THEY TEACH, EXPLAINING WHAT THE RESULTS OF THEIR PROPHESYING WILL BE, AND EMPHASISING THAT THEY WERE NOT SENT OR ENLIGHTENED BY HIM (JEREMIAH...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD._ What a dreadful woe this is upon all false shepherds, those who profess to be sent of God to...
CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against the faithless shepherds. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and preten...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28, because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah, our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the LORD (Jeremiah 23:1). God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
1 John 4:1; 2 Corinthians 11:13; 2 Kings 17:15; Ezekiel 13:16;...
Hearken not — People are under no religious obligation to hear any thing but the revealed will of God, and are not to obey those that call to them for what that doth not call to them....