Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 23:31
Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, (a) He saith.
(a) That is, the Lord.
Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, (a) He saith.
(a) That is, the Lord.
THAT USE THEIR TONGUES - literally, that take their tongues. Their second characteristic. They have no message from God, but they take their tongues, their only implement, and say, He saith, using the...
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)...
SAY, HE SAITH. uttered it as an oracle. Hebrew. _ne'um._ Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 22:16; Numbers 14:28; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:4;...
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...
See introd. summary to section....
_use_ The tongue is all of which they can avail themselves. There is no first-hand knowledge behind it. _He saith_ This phrase, borrowed from the true prophets, will, they expect, help their sayings...
3. _The methods of the false prophets_ (Jeremiah 23:23-32) TRANSLATION (23) Am I a God near at hand (oracle of the LORD), and not a God far off? (24) Can a man hide himself in secret places that I am...
Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. USE THEIR TONGUES - rather, 'take' [ haloqªchiym (H3947)] their tongue: a second class (cf. Jeremiah 23...
1-4. A remnant shall return....
THAT USE THEIR TONGUES, AND SAY, HE SAITH. — Literally, _that take their tongues._ There is no adequate evidence for the marginal rendering “that smooth their tongues.” The scornful phrase indicates t...
הִנְנִ֥י עַל ־הַ נְּבִיאִ֖ם נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֑ה הַ
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...
_Use. Hebrew also, "sharpen, or render smooth," and insinuating, Psalm xlix. 16. (Calmet)_...
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them, and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set forth the awful bitterness in the close of such a life! Proph...
He adds, secondly, _Behold, I am against the prophets, who mollify their own tongue _Almost all interpreters take לקה, _lekech, _as signifying to render sweet or soft; and they understand that the fal...
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...
BEHOLD, I [AM] AGAINST THE PROPHETS, SAITH THE LORD,.... Not another sort of prophets distinct from the former, or those that follow; but the same under another character, and against whom he was, and...
Behold, I [am] against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. Ver. 31. _That use their tongues._] Or, Abuse them rather, to smoothing and soothing up people in their...
_Behold, I am against the prophets that steal my words_, &c. “That imitate the true prophets, speaking in my name, as they do, and saying, _Thus saith the Lord_, (see Jeremiah 23:31,) and using their...
AGAINST THE FALSE PROPHETS...
Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues and say, He saith, literally, "that take their own tongues and utter a divine oracle," asserting that they were proclaiming me...
USE THEIR TONGUES: Or, that smooth their tongues...
23-32 Men cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves? Let them consider what a vast difference there is between these prophecies and th...
Some think the Hebrew words were more properly translated _smooth their tongues_: see the English Annotations. But the next words seem to assure us that the crime for which God here by the prophet ref...
Jeremiah 23:31 prophets H5030 says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 use H3947 (H8802) tongues H3956 say H5001 ...
YHWH REJECTS THE TESTIMONY OF THE FALSE JERUSALEM PROPHETS AND REVEALS HIMSELF AS THE ALL-KNOWING ONE), CONDEMNING THE TEMPLE PROPHETS AS FALSE DREAMERS WHO CAUSE THE PEOPLE TO ERR. THEY ARE IN DIRECT...
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...
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 23:31 God opposes those who falsely claim to speak his words through their LYING DREAMS and harmful LIES....
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...
Isaiah 30:10; Jeremiah 23:17; Micah 2:11...
He — That is, the Lord saith....