Jeremiah 26:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. ”

Jeremiah 26:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The answer of Jeremiah is simple and straightforward. Yahweh, he affirmed, had truly sent him, but the sole object of his prophesying had been to avert the evil by leading them to repentance. If th...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then Jeremiah spoke to all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD (h) sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. (h) He both shows th...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 26. Destruction of the Temple Foretold: Jeremiah's Peril (608 B.C.). Jeremiah is told to proclaim in the Temple ( cf. Jeremiah 19:14 ; probably at some festival) a perilous message (keep...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah pleads only his own calling and the command of God; and thus he confutes the preposterous charge which they most impudently brought against him. There is no doubt but that he might hav...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. The Lord sent me to pro...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. The Lord sent m...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah's Fifteenth Prophecy (Early in the Reign of Jehoiakim) For Jeremiah 26:1-8 see intro. to Jeremiah 7-10. This chapter gives us a sketch of the difficulties and dangers under which Jeremi...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The Lord sent me to prophesy... — The answer of the accused is that of all true prophets and preachers of the word, “The Lord God hath spoken, and he can but prophesy” ( Amos 3:8 ). He must “obey G...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 8:1-22 ; Jeremiah 9:1-26 ; Jeremiah 10:1-25 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 In the four Chapter s which we are now to consider we have what is plainly a finished whole. The only possible exception...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ungrateful Forgetfulness Jeremiah 2:1-8 ; Jeremiah 26:1-24 ; Jeremiah 27:1-22 ; Jeremiah 28:1-17 ; Jeremiah 29:1-32 ; Jeremiah 30:1-24 ; Jeremiah 31:1-40 ; Jeremiah 32:1-44 God regarded...
Jeremiah 26:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Once again Jeremiah repeated a previous message, one delivered yet earlier, "in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim." He had then been instructed to stand in the court of the Lord's house, and de...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Is there anything new or wonderful in this? What servant, what Prophet, what Apostle, eminent in their Lord's service, but hath been brought into the same situation. Nay, what was the Lord himself, w...
Jeremiah 26:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes, and to all the people, saying ,.... In his own defence; which, as Jerom observes, was with prudence, humility, and constancy: the Lord sent me to prophesy...
Jeremiah 26:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard. Ver. 12. The Lord se...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah Prosecuted for His Preaching; Jeremiah's Defence. B. C. 608. 7 So the priests...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The priests having given Jeremiah his charge, he makes his defence. The sum of which was, he acknowledgeth that he had prophesied against the temple, and against the city, and tacitly acknowledgeth t...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

A). Jeremiah Declares In The Temple That If Judah Will Not Repent Their Sanctuary Will End Up like That at Shiloh, Which Was Destroyed By The Philistines, And Their City Will Be Subject To YHWH's Cu...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. About three years earlier than the prophecy of preceding chapter. Cf . chapter 7 with this, and it is evident that they are synchronous...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 26:1 . In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim. See the note on Jeremiah 26:3 . Jeremiah 26:2 . Stand in the court of the Lord's house. See the note on Jeremiah 19:4 . The great...
Jeremiah 26:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah. Afflictions, distresses, tumults Jehoiakim was, perhaps, the most despicable of the kings of Judah. Josephus says that he...
Jeremiah 26:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

JEREMIAH 'S TRIAL AND DELIVERANCE . EXPOSITION The prophecy in Jeremiah 26:2-24 is a summary of that contained in Jeremiah 7:1-24 ; the narrative, which stands in no connection either...
Jeremiah 26:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The Lord sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city, rather, "to" or "concerning this house and this city"; f...
Jeremiah 26:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 4:19 ; Acts 5:29 ; Amos 7:15-17 ; Jeremiah 1:17 ; Jeremiah 1:18 ; Jeremiah 19:1-3 ; Jeremiah 26:15 ; Jeremiah 26:2

Jeremiah 26:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 26:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 26:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 26:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 26:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 26:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 26:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 26:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 26:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 26:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 26:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 26:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge