Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 23:11
For both prophet and priest are profane; even, in my (i) house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
(i) My temple is full of their idolatry and superstitions.
For both prophet and priest are profane; even, in my (i) house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
(i) My temple is full of their idolatry and superstitions.
Verse Jeremiah 23:11. _IN MY HOUSE_] They had even introduced idolatry into the Temple of God!...
FOR BOTH PROPHET AND PRIEST ARE PROFANE - While by their office they are consecrated to God, they have made themselves common and unholy by their sins. See Jeremiah 3:9 note. YEA, IN MY HOUSE - This m...
CHAPTER 23:9-40 Condemnation of the False Prophets _ 1. Jeremiah's lament on account of the false prophets (Jeremiah 23:9) _ 2. The condemnation of these prophets (Jeremiah 23:15) 3. Forgotten and...
THE PROPHETS. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest (Jeremiah 6:13), even the Temple being dishonoured (2 Kings 21:5)...
WICKEDNESS. Hebrew. _ra'a'._ App-44....
Jeremiah 23:9-40. Condemnation of the prophets Following on the prophecies relating to successive kings of Judah, we have a section dealing with the iniquities of a class who also grievously misled t...
_in my house have I found their wickedness_ Cp. Jeremiah 6:13, and see 2 Kings 21:5; 2 Kings 23:12....
E. The Condemnation of False Prophets Jeremiah 23:9-40 The heading over Jeremiah 23:9 reads against the prophets. In this section of the book which deals with national leaders past, present and future...
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. PROPHET AND PRIEST ARE PROFANE - (; ). IN MY HOUSE - (). They built altars to idols in th...
23:11 profane. (a-7) Or 'godless;' and in ver. 15, 'ungodliness.'...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
IN MY HOUSE HAVE I FOUND THEIR WICKEDNESS. — Prophet and priest are joined, as before (Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:10), as playing into each other’s hands. It seems probable, from...
כִּֽי ־גַם ־נָבִ֥יא גַם ־כֹּהֵ֖ן חָנֵ֑פוּ גַּ
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1, Jeremiah 24:1 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!"- Jeremiah 23:1 "Of what avail is straw instead...
Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been responsible for the failure of the people, the false kings and p...
_Defiled. Hebrew, "hypocrites." My priests retain the appearance of religion, to join with impostors in deluding the people._...
The Prophet is here representing the horrible state of false prophets, and the awful termination of such conduct. A portion suited not only to the days of Jeremiah but to all ages of the Church. Lord!...
He adds here that it ought not to appear strange that the prophets were silent when they ought to have loudly cried out, because they were guilty themselves: and whence can freedom of _speech come _ex...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 21, 22, AND 23. On the occasion of Zedekiah's request to Jeremiah to know if the Lord would interfere in favour of the people against Nebuchadnezzar, the Spir...
FOR BOTH PROPHET AND PRIEST ARE PROFANE,.... Being guilty of the afore mentioned sins. The Targum is, "the scribe and the priest;'' and such were the scribes and priests in the time of our Lord; the...
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. Ver. 11. _For both prophet and priest are profane._] What wonder, therefore, that the people w...
_For both the prophet and the priest are profane_ The priests, by their formality and hypocrisy, profaned the ordinances of God which they were appointed to administer; and the prophets, by their lies...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
For both prophet and priest are profane, void of all true consecration; YEA, IN MY HOUSE HAVE I FOUND THEIR WICKEDNESS, SAITH THE LORD, most likely in their shameless idolatry, which they did not hesi...
9-22 The false prophets of Samaria had deluded the Israelites into idolatries; yet the Lord considered the false prophets of Jerusalem as guilty of more horrible wickedness, by which the people were...
Those whose work was to reveal the mind of God to the people, and who pretended to that office; and those that were employed in offering sacrifices, and other works which belonged to the priestly offi...
Jeremiah 23:11 prophet H5030 priest H3548 profane H2610 (H8804) house H1004 found H4672 (H8804) wickedness H7451
JEREMIAH'S DIATRIBE AGAINST THE PROPHETS, HEADED AS ‘CONCERNING THE PROPHETS' (JEREMIAH 23:9). Having set right the vision of the future, Jeremiah now turns on those who had been distorting that visio...
1). JEREMIAH EXPLAINS HOW DIFFICULT HE IS FINDING IT TO PROCLAIM YHWH'S HOLY WORDS AGAINST THE PROPHETS AND OUTLINES THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR PROPHESYING ON THE LAND. YHWH HIMSELF THEN DECLARES WHAT...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD._ What a dreadful woe this is upon all false shepherds, those who profess to be sent of God to...
CONTENTS: Future restoration and conversion of Israel. Message against the faithless shepherds. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Woe be to those who are commanded to feed God's people and preten...
Jeremiah 23:1. _Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep._ Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28, because they enforce the laws and protect the people. Shallum, and...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 23:11 Spiritual adultery begins with ungodly spiritual leaders. Such “guides” will be LIKE SLIPPERY PATHS IN THE DARKNESS. The people need spiritual leaders—specifically prop...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER.—The chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in chap. 22. It must have been written and proclaimed about the beginnin...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1; Jeremiah 22:1. Like Isaiah, our prophet follows up denunciation with consolation...
Now in chapter 23 God speaks out against those Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture, saith the LORD (Jeremiah 23:1). God said, "They're My sheep, but these pastors are scattering...
2 Chronicles 33:5; 2 Chronicles 33:7; 2 Chronicles 36:14; Ezekiel 22:25;...