Jeremiah 7:17
What meaning of the jeremiah 7:17 in the Bible?
What does Jeremiah 7:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?"
What does Jeremiah 7:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?"
The proof of the hopeless immorality of the people is this, that they worship pagan deities (1) generally in the cities of Judah, and not in the capital only; and (2) publicly in the streets of Jeru...
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 (Je...
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...
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...
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 d...
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? SEEST THOU NOT WHAT THEY DO - Yahweh leaves it to Jeremiah himself to decide, is there not good reason that pray...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
SEEST THOU NOT...? — We enter on one of the darker regions of Jewish idolatry, such as Ezekiel (Jeremiah 8) saw in vision. A foreign worship of the basest kind was practised, not only in secret, but i...
הַֽ אֵינְךָ֣ רֹאֶ֔ה מָ֛ה הֵ֥מָּה עֹשִׂ֖ים בְּ עָרֵ֣י יְהוּדָ֑ה וּ בְ חֻצֹ֖ות יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃...
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 finished whole. The only possible exception Jeremiah 10:1 shall be...
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...
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...
Here God shews first why he ought to be implacable towards the people: for the command to the Prophet not to pray for them seems at the first hearing to be very severe; and it might have been objected...
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...
SEEST THOU NOT WHAT THEY DO IN THE CITIES JUDAH,.... Not in one city only, but in all of and particularly the chief of them; as follows: AND IN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM? these words, with what is sai...
_Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?_ Ver. 17. _Seest thou not what they do?_] _a_ And hast thou yet a heart to pray for them? and should I yet have a...
_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...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
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 Go...
q.d. How canst thou pass along the streets but thou must needs be an eye witness of their abominations, to thy no small trouble and sorrow? as Sodom was to Lot, 2 PETER 2:8; therefore how canst thou p...
Jeremiah 7:17 see H7200 (H8802) do H6213 (H8802) cities H5892 Judah H3063 streets H2351 Jerusalem H3389 Jeremiah 6:27; Ezekiel 8:6-18, Ezekiel 14:23...
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...
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...
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...
_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,...
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 comfort in the temple while brea...
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...
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 Je...
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...
Ezekiel 14:23; Ezekiel 8:6; Jeremiah 6:27...