Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 27:9
Dreamers - literally, as in the margin. People dream dreams for themselves, and go to diviners to ask the explanation of them.
Dreamers - literally, as in the margin. People dream dreams for themselves, and go to diviners to ask the explanation of them.
Verse Jeremiah 27:9. _THEREFORE HEARKEN NOT YE TO YOUR PROPHETS_] Who pretend to have a revelation from heaven. _NOR TO YOUR DIVINERS_] קסמיכם _kosemeychem_, from קסם _kasam,_ to _presage_ or _progno...
CHAPTER 27 The Optimism of the False Prophets Contradicted _ 1. The call of Nebuchadnezzar to be the servant of God (Jeremiah 27:1) _ 2. The call to submit and to serve the king of Babylon (Jeremia...
JEREMIAH 27-29. Certain linguistic peculiarities (_e.g._ the incorrect spelling, Nebuchadnezzar) suggest that these three Chapter s may have circulated as a separate pamphlet, _e.g._ in Babylon. They...
DIVINERS, &C. These were their heathen guides. ENCHANTERS. observers of the clouds. SORCERERS. These were mediums and necromancers....
Speedy deliverance from Babylon is not to be hoped for These three Chapter s belong to the time of Zedekiah. The power of Babylon had already been demonstrated as to Judah. Some of the people had bee...
_dreams_ those which the diviners, etc. professed to have had. Cp. Jeremiah 23:25; Jeremiah 29:8. We should have expected rather _dreamers_(so LXX Syr. Targ.), and MT. may have been introduced here fr...
Certain kings having sent to invite Zedekiah to join them in an attempt to overthrow the power of Babylon, Jeremiah warns them to desist as the attempt would be futile. Du. points out that Zedekiah's...
THEREFORE, HEARKEN NOT, &C.— He speaks to Zedekiah and to the messengers of the other princes spoken of in Jeremiah 27:3. _The diviners, dreamers,_ &c. belonged to the idolatrous nations; as the _prop...
B. Instructions for the Foreign Ambassadors Jeremiah 27:4-11 TRANSLATION (4) Command them to say to their lords: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Thus say unto your lords: I have made...
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Baby...
27:9 soothsayers, (b-19) Or, 'those that use auguries,' as Leviticus 19:26 ....
1-29. Judah is warned to submit to Babylon....
THEREFORE HEARKEN YE NOT TO YOUR PROPHETS. — The almost exhaustive list of the names given to the men who claimed the power of prevision, may have had its ground in the fact that each of the five name...
וְ֠ אַתֶּם אַל ־תִּשְׁמְע֨וּ אֶל ־נְבִיאֵיכֶ֜ם...
CHAPTER IX HANANIAH Jeremiah 27:1, Jeremiah 28:1 "Hear now, Hananiah; Jehovah hath not sent thee, but thou makest this people to trust in a lie."- Jeremiah 28:15 THE most conspicuous point at issu
Having thus repeated the vision and prophecies of the earlier times, Jeremiah again addressed himself directly to Zedekiah. There can be no doubt that the marginal reading of 27:l must be adopted, and...
_Prophets, who deluded the Jews, as diviners did the Gentiles._...
I only detain the Reader on these verses to remark, how in all ages, the Church of God hath been infested by false prophets. With what caution ought men to hear!...
As Jeremiah had declared to the king, as well as to the citizens, that they could not escape the punishment that was at hand, he now shakes off from them that vain confidence, which was as an obstacle...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 27 AND 28. Chapter s 27 and 28 go together. Their chief subject is the submission to the head of the Gentiles, which God requires of the Jews. But before dwel...
THEREFORE HEARKEN NOT YE TO YOUR PROPHETS,.... False prophets, as the Targum. These words are not directed to the Jews, but are a continuation of what the messengers of the nations should say to their...
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babyl...
_Hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners_ These nations, it must be observed, had their prophets as well as the Jews, or rather persons that pretended to foretel future events by consult...
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, the self-appointed leaders of this class, NOR TO YOUR DIVINERS, those who insisted that they could uncover the future, NOR TO YOUR DREAMERS, literally, "your...
THE MESSAGE OF THE YOKES...
DREAMERS: _ Heb._ dreams...
1-11 Jeremiah is to prepare a sign that all the neighbouring countries would be made subject to the king of Babylon. God asserts his right to dispose of kingdoms as he pleases. Whatever any have of t...
It is uncertain whether these words were part of the message which Jeremiah by command from God sent to the kings above mentioned, or the prophet's words to the Jews; for as those pagan nations had DI...
Jeremiah 27:9 listen H8085 (H8799) prophets H5030 diviners H7080 (H8802) dreamers H2472 soothsayers H6049 (H8781)
WEARING THE YOKE OF SUBJECTION AND DEPENDENCE (JEREMIAH 27:1). At YHWH's command Jeremiah had to wear a yoke demonstrating bondage. Per the MT text this commenced at the beginning of Jehoiakim's reign...
JEREMIAH WAS LATER COMMANDED TO SEND PARALLEL YOKES TO THE PLOTTERS OF REBELLION WHOSE AMBASSADORS WERE CONGREGATED IN JERUSALEM (JEREMIAH 27:3). The sending of the yokes to related nations, which wo...
CONTENTS: Sign of the yokes, to surrounding Gentile kings. Warning of great calamity. CHARACTERS: God, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah, Jeconiah. CONCLUSION: Those who refuse to serve the God wh...
Jeremiah 27:1. _In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim._ In the twelfth verse it is added, “I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah.” These occurrences induce some critics to believe that Jehoiakim...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—“Beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim.” There is authority for reading “_Zedekiah_” instead of “Jehoiakim.” Henderson substitutes “Zedekiah,...
EXPOSITION This and the two following chapters are closely connected. They all relate to the early part of the reign of Zedekiah, and con-rain warnings arising out of the deepening gloom of the politi...
Now Jeremiah goes on to declare that, In the beginning (Jeremiah 27:1) He's speaking this to the king Zedekiah. In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this w...
Acts 8:11; Deuteronomy 18:10; Deuteronomy 18:14; Exodus 7:11;...