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Verse Jeremiah 7:18. _THE CHILDREN GATHER WOOD_] Here is a description
of a _whole family_ gathered together, and acting unitedly in
idolatrous worship.
1. The _children_ go and collect wood, and bri...
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CHILDREN ... FATHERS ... WOMEN - All members of the family take part
in this idolatry.
CAKES - Probably very similar to those offered at Athens to Artemis.
TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN - A Persian and Assy...
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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
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THE WORSHIP OF ASTARTE. The prophet is forbidden to intercede for a
people who are even now worshipping other gods, to their own deserved
ruin. The cult (p. 99) described in Jeremiah 7:18 (and more fu...
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CHILDREN. sons.
MAKE: or, offer.
QUEEN. Some codices, with two early printed editions, read "worship",
which is put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the
goddess to whom the worship was...
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See introd. note on the section and cp. Jeremiah 15:1. It is hardly
probable that this formed part of Jeremiah's address, seeing that it
gives us in fact Jehovah's words to His prophet abruptly insert...
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Both sexes and all ages unite in the public dishonouring of God's name
by shameless idolatries.
_cakes_ The Hebrew word is of Assyrio-Babylonian origin, and occurs
elsewhere only in Jeremiah 44:19, wh...
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TO THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN— _The queen of heaven_ was the _moon;_ the
same as _Astarte_ or _Ashtaroth._ The prophet here describes the whole
family as busied in preparing their sacrifices and superstitiou...
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II. PAGAN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:16-20
The worship in Jerusalem was so corrupt that God instructs Jeremiah to
cease interceding for the apostates (Jeremiah 7:16). The depravity of
the nation is further de...
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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provok...
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7:18 heaven, (g-23) See ch. 8.2; Judges 2:11 ,Judges 2:13 ....
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QUEEN OF HEAVEN] identified either with the moon or with the Assyrian
Ishtar, the planet Venus. The Jewish women were specially given to
that worship, offering incense and cakes stamped with a represe...
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1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
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THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN. — The goddess thus described was a kind of
Assyrian Artemis, identified with the moon, and connected with the
symbolic worship of the reproductive powers of Nature. Its ritual
pro...
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הַ בָּנִ֞ים מְלַקְּטִ֣ים עֵצִ֗ים וְ
הָֽ אָבֹו
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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
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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...
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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead dough, to make cakes to (i) the queen of heaven, and to
pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me...
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_Heaven. That is, the moon, which they worshipped under that name.
(Challoner) --- Some understand the sun also the stars, chap. xliv.
17., and Isaias lxv. 11. All the family contributes to promote th...
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Here is a very solemn scripture indeed, in which the Lord forbids his
servant even to pray for the people. And there is another solemn
scripture suitable to be read together, Ezekiel 16:42. When the L...
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_The children, _he says, _gather wood _He ascribes the collecting of
wood to the young; for it was a more laborious work. As then that age
excels in strength, they collected wood; and _the fathers kin...
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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...
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THE CHILDREN GATHER WOOD,.... In the fields, or out of the
neighbouring forest; not little children, but young men, who were able
to cut down trees, and bear and carry burdens of wood:
AND THE FATHER...
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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and
to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provo...
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_Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah_ Thou canst not
pass along the streets, but thou must needs be an eye witness of their
abominations, committed openly and publicly in the face of th...
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THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
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The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the
women knead their dough to make cakes to the queen of heaven, the
female goddess Ashtoreth, or Astarte, the counterpart of the male i...
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QUEEN OF HEAVEN:
Or, frame, or workmanship of heaven...
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17-20 The Jews took pride in showing zeal for their idols. Let us
learn to be earnest in the service of our God, even from this bad
example. Let us think it an honour to be employed in any work for G...
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Here God shows how busily they are employed from the youngest to the
oldest, and how industrious for their idolatry, JEREMIAH 44:1; see
MATTHEW 24:38; every one in the family doth somewhat towards it....
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YHWH EXPLAINS TO JEREMIAH WHY HE SEES HIS PEOPLE AS HAVING GONE BEYOND
WHAT WAS ACCEPTABLE, AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES MUST INEVITABLY BE,
BECAUSE THEY HAVE CONSTANTLY REFUSED TO HEAR HIS VOICE (JEREMI...
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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...
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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...
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_The children gather wood._
WHAT CAN CHILDREN DO FOR GOD?
I. God is setting up a kingdom in this world. A very glorious and
gracious kingdom.
1. Righteousness. Teaches us to do justice.
2. Peace--...
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_Seest thou not what they do in the streets of Jerusalem?_
THE STREETS OF THE CITY
I. As an index to character.
1. The streets are the pulse of commercial prosperity. The man who
goes from a dull,...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 10:22; Deuteronomy 32:37; Deuteronomy 32:38; Deuteronomy
4:19;...
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The children — Here God shews how busily they are employed from the
youngest to the oldest for their idolatry. The queen — As the sun
was looked upon as king, so the moon as the queen of heaven....