We are delivered - Jeremiah accuses them of trusting in the ceremonial of the temple instead of leading holy lives. “You break,” he says, “the Ten Commandments, and then you go to the Temple; and when the service is over you say, We are delivered. We have atoned for our past actions, and may start afresh with easy minds upon a new course of wickedness.”
THE PROPHET'S TEMPLE ADDRESS (7-9) CHAPTER 7 _ 1. Amend your ways and your doings (Jeremiah 7:1) _ 2. No prayer-answer to be expected (Jeremiah 7:16) 3. Sacrifices rejected; Obedience demanded (J
THE TEMPLE SERMON. The prophet is sent to the gate of the Temple, to rebuke the false confidence of Yahweh's worshippers in the possession of this block of buildings (these, Jeremiah 7:4). Yahweh desi...
COME. [still] come. WHICH IS CALLED, &C.. whereon My name was called....
See introd. note on the section....
_called by my name_ in token of ownership. Cp. Jeremiah 14:9; Jeremiah 25:29; Jeremiah 32:34. See other references for the phrase in Dr."s note. _We are delivered_ We are guaranteed impunity by the di...
WE ARE DELIVERED TO DO— _We are delivered, though we have done,_ &c. The old version of 1611 renders it, _We have been delivered, though we have done,_ &c....
B. A Fallacious Assumption Jeremiah 7:8-11 TRANSLATION (8) Behold, you are trusting in the words of the worthless lie. (9) Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, sware falsely, offer incense to Baa...
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; "Will ye steal, etc., and then come and stand before me?" GOD...
7:10 delivered, (e-21) Or 'hidden.'...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
WE ARE DELIVERED] By the discharge of this formality we are set free for a return to wickedness....
_(_10_)_ AND COME AND STAND. — Better, _and then_ have ye come, and stood before me. WE ARE DELIVERED. — Taking the word as it stands (a different punctuation adopted by some commentators and versions...
וּ בָאתֶ֞ם וַ עֲמַדְתֶּ֣ם לְ פָנַ֗י בַּ
Jeremiah 8:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 10:1; Jeremiah 26:1 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a fin
With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the peop...
_Because. Hebrew also, "although," (Sa; Grotius) "to perform," (Chaldean; Montanus) or "by doing." God must surely approve of our conduct, since we are unmolested. (St. Thomas Aquinas; Lyranus) --- Bu...
From what is said in these verses of men talking as if delivered to do evil, it should seem, that there were in the Prophet's days, as well as in ours, persons who took occasion from the doctrine of f...
The Prophet now adds, _Ye come, _that is, after ye have allowed yourselves to steal, and to murder, and to commit adultery, and to corrupt the whole worship of God, — at last, _Ye come and stand befor...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 7, 8, AND 9. Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, wo...
AND COME AND STAND BEFORE ME IN THIS HOUSE,.... In the temple; this they did after they had been guilty of such immoralities and idolatry; thinking by their appearance there, and their performance of...
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations? Ver. 10. _And come and stand before me in this house._] This was worse...
_Behold, ye trust in lying words_ Uttered by your false prophets, who promise you peace, and sooth you up in your impenitence. _Will ye steal, murder_, &c. Jeremiah does not charge them with the trans...
THE WARNING EXAMPLE OF SHILOH...
and come and stand before Me in this house, in brazen hypocrisy, Cf Ezekiel 23:39, WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME, AND SAY, WE ARE DELIVERED TO DO ALL THESE ABOMINATIONS? They believed that, in spite of t...
WHICH IS CALLED BY MY NAME: _ Heb._ whereupon my Name is called...
1-16 No observances, professions, or supposed revelations, will profit, if men do not amend their ways and their doings. None can claim an interest in free salvation, who allow themselves in the prac...
AND COME AND STAND BEFORE ME IN THIS HOUSE; in the temple; either as if they had done no such thing, like the whore, that wipes her mouth, and saith she hath done no wickedness, PROVERBS 30:20, noting...
Jeremiah 7:10 come H935 (H8804) stand H5975 (H8804) before H6440 house H1004 called H7121 (H8738) name...
JUDAH MUST NOT TRUST IN THE PRESENCE OF THE TEMPLE FOR SECURITY BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THEIR EVIL WAYS YHWH INTENDS TO DO TO THE TEMPLE WHAT HE DID TO HIS HOUSE AT SHILOH, DESTROY IT (JEREMIAH 7:1). A...
Jeremiah 7:9 There is a deal of vague floating excuse in our minds, which practically amounts to making what we call Fate a scapegoat for our sins. There are two forms which such an attempt at excuse...
Jeremiah 7:1. _The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that ente...
CONTENTS: The message in the gate of the Lord's house. Coming desolations because of sin. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is common for those who are furthest from God to boast themselves...
Jeremiah 7:2. _Stand in the gate of the Lord's house,_ and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had t...
_Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely. .. and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?_ FATE “It is my fate,” is the excuse for many a career of shame and sin. I d...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:1 False Religion and an Idolatrous People. These chapters give evidence of the truth of God’s accusations in chs. Jeremiah 2:1. Judah takes com
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 7:10 GO ON DOING. The people feel justified in sinning, as they did before they came to “worship.” ⇐...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. _Keil_ regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. _Bagster_ places an interval of merely two years between...
EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jer...
So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in r...
2 Chronicles 33:4; 2 Chronicles 33:7; 2 Kings 21:4; Ezekiel 20:39;...
Delivered — After they had appeared before God with their sacrifices, they thought they were privileged to return to all those wickednesses....