Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 23:23
At hand - Or, near. An appeal to the omnipotence of God in demonstration of the wickedness of the prophets. His power is not limited, so that He can notice only things close to Him, but is universal.
At hand - Or, near. An appeal to the omnipotence of God in demonstration of the wickedness of the prophets. His power is not limited, so that He can notice only things close to Him, but is universal.
Verse Jeremiah 23:23. AM _I A GOD AT HAND, - AND NOT A GOD AFAR OFF?_] You act as if you thought I could not see you! Am I not omnipresent? _Do_ _not I fill the heavens and the earth_? Jeremiah 23:24....
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)...
AM.... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. AND NOT, &C. Figure of speech _Pleonasm_, for emphasis....
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. Here we again take up the thought of Jeremiah 23:18....
The connexion of thought has been variously explained. (i) The LXX make Jeremiah 23:23 an affirmation, not a question. God, as universally present, can never be at a distance, and this agrees with Jer...
AM I A GOD AT HAND, &C.— This verse is well explained by the next: "Do you think that I regard heavenly things only, and not those of the earth?—on the contrary, I fill both heaven and earth; each of...
3. _The methods of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:23-32) TRANSLATION (23) Am I a God near at hand (oracle of the LORD), and not a God far off? (24) Can a man hide himself in secret places that I am...
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? AM I A GOD AT HAND ... AND NOT A GOD AFAR OFF? - Let not the false prophets fancy that their devices () are unknown to me. Are ye so ign...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
Think you that My knowledge is subject to human limitations? These men do not deceive Me as they do the people....
AM I A GOD AT HAND...? — This and the two questions that follow are essentially the same in thought. The false prophets acted as if God were far away out of their sight (Psalms 10:11; Psalms 73:11; Ps...
הַ אֱלֹהֵ֧י מִ קָּרֹ֛ב אָ֖נִי נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֑ה
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...
[Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God (s) afar off? (s) Do I not see your falsehood, however you cloak it, and wherever you commit it?...
_Off? Can you so easily penetrate my designs, or escape my fury? Am I like your idols of yesterday? Septuagint and Theodotion, "I am a God at hand," &c., which agrees with the sequel. (Calmet)_...
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...
Here he especially shakes off from hypocrites their self-delusions; for they were torpid in their vices, because they thought that they could in a manner blind the eyes of God. They did not indeed say...
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...
[AM] I A GOD AT HAND, SAITH THE LORD,.... Or "near" f; that is, in heaven; and only sees, and hears, and observes persons and things there, being near unto him: AND NOT A GOD AFAR OFF? that sees, and...
Jeremiah 23:23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Ver. 23. _Am I a God at hand, and not a God afar off?_] See I not what is done on earth, which seemeth further from me? or...
_Am I a God at hand and not a God afar off?_ Do these false prophets imagine that I am only a God in some particular places, and that I cannot see or know things done privately, or at a distance from...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, one whose power is limited to a small circle, AND NOT A GOD AFAR OFF? whose power and understanding is unlimited....
23-32 Men cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves? Let them consider what a vast difference there is between these prophecies and th...
Atheism is generally the foundation of ill life. Men say God sees them not, the Almighty doth not regard. them. By a God at hand many understand heaven: Do you think that my eyes are limited like your...
Jeremiah 23:23 God H430 hand H7138 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 God H430 off H7350...
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...
_Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?_ GOD NIGH AT HAND God is nigh at hand for judgment: the period of judgment, therefore, need not be postponed until a remote age; every man...
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 Kings 20:23; 1 Kings 20:28; Ezekiel 20:32; Jonah 1:3; Jonah 1:4;...