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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 7:7

For ever and ever. — Literally, from eternity to eternity, or, perhaps, from age to age. The English punctuation connects these words with “I will cause you to dwell,” but the accentuation of the Hebrew with “I gave to your fathers;” the gift was to have been in perpetuity (Genesis 17:8), but the guilt of the people had brought about its forfeiture.

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See also Jeremiah 7:7 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    A summary of the conditions indispensable on man’s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor. Jeremiah 7:6 IN THIS PLACE - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent b...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEN WILL. CAUSE, &C. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:40). FOR EVER AND EVER. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the Whole), for an age-abiding duration....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    I. PRESUMPTUOUS WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:3-15 The men of Judah, like the majority of all ages, took worship for granted. They were content simply to show up at the Temple and participate in the prescribed r...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. THEN WILL I CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS PLACE - the apodosis to the "if ... if" (Jeremiah 7...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ שִׁכַּנְתִּ֤י אֶתְכֶם֙ בַּ † מָּקֹ֣ום הַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then (b) will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. (b) God shows on what condition he made his promise to this temple that they would be a h...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Dwell. Hebrew and Septuagint as [in] ver. 3. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    It appears by the subject of the Prophet's sermon, that the men of Judah, while destitute of vital godliness, were much taken up with the form of it: and though without the love of God in their heart,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Then follows the latter part, _Then I will make you to dwell_, (192) etc. God sets this clause in opposition to the false confidence of the people, as though he had said, “Ye wish me to be propitious...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN WILL I CAUSE YOU TO DWELL IN THIS PLACE,.... In the land of Judea, and not suffer them to be carried captive, which they had been threatened with, and had reason to expect, should they continue i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. Ver. 7. _Then will I cause you to dwell in this place._] Not else. God's promises are with a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For if ye thoroughly amend your ways_, &c. In these verses the prophet tells them particularly what the amendment was which was necessary that they might escape destruction. It must be a thorough ame...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GOD'S REQUIREMENT AND PROMISE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    then will I cause you to dwell in this place, permitting them to continue as inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah, IN THE LAND THAT I GAVE YOUR FATHERS, FOREVER AND EVER, for a long period of uninterrup...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEN, i.e. upon this condition, that you will return unto me, then either I will establish and fix you in the land; or, as anciently read, _sachanti_ in _kal_, I will dwell, viz. amongst you in this p...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 7:7 dwell H7931 (H8765) place H4725 land H776 gave H5414 (H8804) fathers H1 forever H5704...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Stand in the gate. .. and proclaim._ BOLDNESS IN PREACHING Some preachers are traders from port to port, following the customary and approved course; others adventure over the whole ocean of human c...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 33:8; Deuteronomy 4:40; Jeremiah 17:20; Jeremiah 18:7;...

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