Jeremiah 26:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, ”

• Jeremiah 26:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The elders of the land - The heads and spokesmen of the congregation, who added their approval after the princes who represented the king had given their decision.

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  certain . men. Plural of 'enosh. App-14. Some better acquainted with affairs than others.

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  It is uncertain whether what is here recited was spoken before the acquittal of Jeremiah or not; for the Scripture does not always exactly preserve order in narrating things. It is yet probable...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, Certain of the elders - This is really a fine defense, and the argument was perfectly conclusive....

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, Then rose up certain of the elders - members of the great council. (Compare Gamaliel's int...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Certain of the elders of the land. — The word is probably to be taken rather in the literal than in an official sense — or, if officially, then as including the literal meaning also. The elders spe...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I pray the Reader to observe with me, who were the enemies of faithful Jeremiah: namely, the unfaithful priests. Oh! what a reproach is it to any age, and to every age of the Church, that the Redeeme...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then rose up certain of the elders of the land ,.... The same with the princes; some of the court, who rose up as advocates for the prophet: and spake to all the assembly of the people : to justif...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying, Ver. 17. Then rose up certain of the elders. ] Viri illi admodum venerabiles erant, saith Oec...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Then rose up certain of the elders Either the princes before mentioned, or the more intelligent men of the people, stood up, and put the assembly in mind of a former case, as is usual with us in gi...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Jeremiah's Acquittal; Jeremiah's Deliverance. B. C. 608.       16 Then said the princes and...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Probably these elders were some of the court, or else advocates, for they were wont to rise up, either to plead or to judge, Isaiah 3:13 Acts 5:34 . They rise up and apply themselves to the pe...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Jeremiah's Defense and Deliverance

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• Jeremiah 26:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 5:34 ; Micah 1:1

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