Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 23:22
They should have turned them ... - The work of the true prophet, which is to turn men from evil unto good.
They should have turned them ... - The work of the true prophet, which is to turn men from evil unto good.
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)...
BUT IF, &C. The Hebrew accent requires the rendering: "But, had they stood in My Council: then they would have made My People hear My words, and they would have turned", &c....
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...
_my council_ See Jeremiah 23:18....
See introd. summary to section. Here we again take up the thought of Jeremiah 23:18....
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...
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. IF THEY HAD STOOD IN MY CO...
23:22 had (c-10) Or 'counsel, then would they have.'...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
IF THEY HAD STOOD IN MY COUNSEL. — Better, as before, _council._ The test of the true mission is seen in results. Are the people better or worse for the prophet’s work? What are the fruits of his teac...
וְ אִֽם ־עָמְד֖וּ בְּ סֹודִ֑י וְ יַשְׁמִ֤עוּ
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...
But if they had stood in my counsel, and (r) had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. (r) He shows the differen...
_I should. Some copies read avertissent, "they would have turned," conformably with the Hebrew, &c., and we should suspect that this was a mistake of the transcriber, if St. Jerome did not agree with...
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...
This verse is as it were an explanation of the former; for many might have been perplexed, if it had only been said to them, that there are none who are fit and legitimate teachers but those who had b...
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...
BUT IF THEY HAD STOOD IN MY COUNSEL,.... As they boasted they did; or, as they reproached the true prophets, and charged them with vanity and arrogance, in talking as if they had; had this been truly...
But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings. Ver. 22. _But if they had sto...
_I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran_ They were always ready to bring you pleasing tidings as from me, though I had given them no commission so to do, or revealed any thing to them. _But if t...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
But if they had stood in My counsel and had caused My people to hear My words, proclaiming them as they were truly revealed, THEN THEY SHOULD HAVE TURNED THEM FROM THEIR EVIL WAY AND FROM THE EVIL OF...
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...
These false prophets did not prophesy without the approbation of the rulers of the ecclesiastical state amongst the Jews in their corrupt state, but so they might, and yet not be sent of God. The judg...
Jeremiah 23:22 stood H5975 (H8804) counsel H5475 people H5971 hear H8085 (H8686) words H1697 turned H7725 ...
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'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...
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...
_I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken them, yet they prophesied._ A DIVINE CALL INDISPENSABLE TO THE SUCCESS OF A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL I. A Divine call is necessary to wa...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 23:21 “I DID NOT SEND THE PROPHETS.” True prophets would have asked the people to repent of their unfaithfulness. ⇐
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 Thessalonians 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; Acts 20:27;...