What does Jeremiah 7:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh."
Verse Jeremiah 7:21. _PUT YOUR BURNT-OFFERINGS UNTO YOUR SACRIFICES, AND EAT_ _FLESH._] I will receive neither sacrifice nor oblation from you; therefore you may take the beasts intended for sacrifice...
The meaning is, Increase your sacrifices as you will. Acid burnt-offering to peace-offerings. All is in vain as long as you neglect the indispensable requirements of obedience and moral purity. Eat fl...
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...
OBEDIENCE NECESSARY, NOT SACRIFICE. Yahweh scornfully tells these formal worshippers to eat even the burnt-offering (wholly offered to God), as well as the peace-offering (which was eaten by the worsh...
PUT. Add. SACRIFICES. Hebrew. _zabach._ App-43....
_Add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices_ Burnt offerings were consumed whole, while of sacrifices certain portions were reserved to be eaten by the priest and the offerer. Accordingly the sense...
PUT YOUR BURNT-OFFERINGS, &C.— Houbigant renders this, _Put together your burnt-offerings with your peace-offerings; and eat their flesh._ The meaning is, "Eat your sacrifices yourselves, your burnt-o...
III. PRIORITIES IN WORSHIP Jeremiah 7:21-28 As Jeremiah looks at the current religious observances he sees only perfunctory compliance with outward ritual (Jeremiah 7:21). He reminds his listeners th...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. PUT YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO YOUR SACRIFICES ... EAT FLESH - Add the former (which t...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence....
PUT YOUR BURNT OFFERINGS. — i.e., “Add one kind of sacrifice to another. Offer the victim, and then partake of the sacrificial feast. All is fruitless, unless there be the true conditions of acceptanc...
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֹ֖ות אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עֹלֹותֵיכֶ֛ם סְפ֥וּ עַל ־זִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם וְ אִכְל֥וּ בָשָֽׂר׃...
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...
_Flesh. I reject your holocausts. Keep them for yourselves. (Calmet)_...
I pause, not to interrupt the Reader in the progress of these verses, they are all to the same amount as the former. How pathetically the Prophet mourns the obstinacy of his people! Surely ministers o...
The Prophet here taunts the Jews for being so sedulous in their attention to sacrifices, while they had no care for piety. Hence he says by way of ridicule, “Offer your sacrifices, and accumulate burn...
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...
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF HOSTS, THE GOD OF ISRAEL,.... The Lord of armies above and below, and the covenant God of the people of Israel; who were bound to serve him, not only by the laws of creation...
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Ver. 21. _Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh._] _Congerite, inge...
_Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel_ And let Israel hear when their God speaks _Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh_ The burnt-offerings, after they were flayed,...
THE IDOLATRY AND DISOBEDIENCE OF THE JEWS...
21-28 God shows that obedience was required of them. That which God commanded was, Hearken diligently to the voice of the Lord thy God. The promise is very encouraging. Let God's will be your rule, an...
The ironical words of one that seems to be in a great rage: Take those that are peculiar, and to be all burnt to me, LEVITICUS 1:9, and put them to your own of what kind soever; eat them, and do what...
Jeremiah 7:21 says H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 hosts H6635 God H430 Israel H3478 Add H5595 (H8798) offerings H5930 sacrifices H2077 eat H398 (H8798) meat H1320 Put - Jeremiah 6:20; Isaiah 1:11-15;...
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...
Jeremiah 7:21. _Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I b...
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...
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...
Amos 5:21; Hosea 8:13; Isaiah 1:11; Jeremiah 6:20...
Put — Ironical words, take those that are peculiar, and to be all burnt to me, and do what you will with them, I will have none of them. To your sacrifices — That part of your sacrifices, which you ar...