Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Jeremiah 25:6
The works of your hands. — These were, of course, the idols which they had made and worshipped.
The works of your hands. — These were, of course, the idols which they had made and worshipped.
CHAPTER 25 The Seventy Years' Captivity and the Judgment of the Nations _ 1. The retrospect (Jeremiah 25:1) _ 2. The seventy years' captivity announced (Jeremiah 25:8) 3. The punishment of Babylon...
JEREMIAH 25. THE SUPREMACY OF BABYLON OVER JUDAH AND THE NATIONS. Jeremiah 25:1. In the year 604 (after the Babylonian victory over Egypt at Carchemish, 605 B.C., _cf._ Jeremiah 46:2), Jeremiah public...
DO YOU NO HURT. bring no calamity upon you. HURT. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44. Compare Jeremiah 25:5....
_provoke me not_ Read PROVOKE NOT JEHOVAH, a correction easily made in the Hebrew....
DISCOURSE: 1063 RELIGION IS NOT A SOURCE OF EVIL TO THOSE WHO EMBRACE IT Jeremiah 25:5. _Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings..…And I will do you no hurt_....
II. GOD AND THE WORLD RULER Jeremiah 25:1-38 Chapter 25 is one of the most important Chapter s in the entire book. A great deal can be learned about the message of Jeremiah from this single chapter. A...
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. GO NOT AFTER OTHER GODS. He instances one sin,...
JEREMIAH'S FOURTEENTH PROPHECY (REIGN OF JEHOIAKIM). THE WINE CUP OF GOD'S FURY We have here the first closely dated prophecy, taking us back from Zedekih's reign to the fourth year of Jehoiakim, betw...
וְ אַל ־תֵּלְכ֗וּ אַֽחֲרֵי֙ אֱלֹהִ֣ים אֲחֵרִ֔ים...
Still speaking to Zedekiah, Jeremiah reminded him of the word which came in the fourth year of Jehoiakim. It was a message announcing the judgment of God against Judah, Babylon, the nations, the world...
Both the time when, and the manner how, and the subject of, the Prophet's sermon are here set down, with the sad event of the whole, in that no man regarded. Neither Jeremiah nor the Prophets had the...
The Prophet mentions here one kind of sin; for though the Jews in many, and even in numberless ways kindled God’s wrath, yet they especially procured a heavy judgment for themselves by their superstit...
Chapter 25 closes, so to say, this part of the prophecy with a general summary of God's judgments on the earth, giving it into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. The immediate application to events already a...
AND GO NOT AFTER OTHER GODS TO SERVE THEM, AND TO WORSHIP THEM,.... So long as they served the Lord God, they continued in their own land, in the comfortable enjoyment of all the blessings of it; for...
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt. Ver. 6. _And I will do you no hurt._] Heb., I will...
_And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants_, &c. Nor am I the only prophet whom the Lord hath sent you, and whom you have neglected and despised. God hath sent you many more, and you have despi...
THE JUDGMENT ON JUDAH...
and go not after other gods to serve them and to worship them, in the idolatry which they had practiced so flagrantly and shamelessly, AND PROVOKE ME NOT TO ANGER WITH THE WORKS OF YOUR HANDS, chiefly...
1-7 The call to turn from evil ways to the worship and service of God, and for sinners to trust in Christ, and partake of his salvation, concerns all men. God keeps an account how long we possess the...
Gods; idols, which indeed are no gods, but so called by idolaters. TO SERVE THEM, AND TO WORSHIP THEM; to pay any divine homage unto them. AND PROVOKE ME NOT TO ANGER by idols, which are the work of m...
Jeremiah 25:6 go H3212 (H8799) after H310 other H312 gods H430 serve H5647 (H8800) worship H7812 ...
JEREMIAH'S WARNING TO THE PEOPLE CONCERNING THEIR FUTURE (JEREMIAH 25:3). Jeremiah 25:3 ‘From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these three and twenty ye...
SUBSECTION 8). JEREMIAH SUMMARISES HIS MINISTRY BEFORE THE PEOPLE AND AFTER DECLARING WHAT IS TO COME ON JUDAH PROCLAIMS THE JUDGMENT OF YHWH THAT IS COMING ON ALL NATIONS (JEREMIAH 25:1). This final...
CONTENTS: Prophecy of seventy years' captivity. Sign of the wine cup of fury. CHARACTERS: Jeremiah, Jehoiakim, Nebuchadnezzar, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Men would never receive from God the desolating pu...
Jeremiah 25:1. _In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the first year of Nebuchadrezzar._ Daniel says the third year, Daniel 1:1. The campaign could not be less than a year; the variation arises from the per...
_I will do you no hurt._ NO HURT FROM GOD I. The import of the promise. 1. Such a promise can apply to none but the people of God. 2. The Lord’s people are apt to fear He should do them hurt, and...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 25:5 TURN NOW. The consistent prophetic message was one of repentance from idolatry so that the people could have a right relationship with God....
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER: “_Fourth year of Jehoiakim_” (Jeremiah 25:1). It is stated the _third_ year in Daniel 1:1; but Hales (“Sacred Chron.”) shows that Jehoiakim...
EXPOSITION This chapter may be illustrated by a comparison of it with Jeremiah 46:1. There Jeremiah exults ever the destruction of a nation (Egypt) which was one of the chief enemies of God's people,...
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim (Jeremiah 25:1). So now we're going back in time. This was before Zedekiah was king. This was when Jeh...
1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 14:22; 2 Kings 17:35; Deuteronomy 13:2;...