Jeremiah 26:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD. ”

• Jeremiah 26:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The charge against Jeremiah was that of prophesying falsely, for which the penalty was death Deuteronomy 18:20 . They assumed that it was absolutely impossible that Jerusalem ever could become lik...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, (f) This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - 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 26:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  all. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus), for most of the People.

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Here is added the cause of Jeremiah’s condemnation, that he had dared to threaten with so much severity the holy city and the Temple. They did not inquire whether God had commanded this to be d...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - 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 26:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord...? — The threat that the house in which they gloried should be as the old sanctuary of Ephraim, over whose fall they had exulted, was as the last d...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord ,.... Made use of his name in declaring a falsehood, as they would have it; this was the crime: had he said what he thought fit to say in his own nam...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The priests and prophets took him , &c. As a disturber of the government, and a discourager of the people from defending their country against the enemy, in prophesying that the temple and city...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Jeremiah Prosecuted for His Preaching; Jeremiah's Defence. B. C. 608.       7 So the priests...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  They charge him with being a false prophet, speaking false things in the name of God; their pretence seemeth to have been from the promises of God; such as that, Psalms 132:13,14 , For the Lord h...

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - 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 26:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The First Prophecy and its Effect

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• Jeremiah 26:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 25:16 ; Acts 13:50 ; Acts 16:19-22 ; Acts 17:5-8 ; Acts 19:24-32 ; Acts 21:30 ; Acts 22:22 ; Acts 4:17-19 ; Acts 5:28 ; Acts 6:14 ; Amos 5:10 ; Amos 7:10-13 ; Isaiah 29:21 ;...

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