“ The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, ”
In Jer. 7–10 he addresses the people as they flocked into Jerusalem from the country, to attend the solemn services in the temple upon a fastday. Jehoiakim Jeremiah 26 had just ascended the thron...
The Temple Sermon. The prophet is sent to the gate of the Temple, to rebuke the false confidence of Yahweh's worshippers in the possession of this block of buildings (these, Jeremiah 7:4 ). Yahweh...
Jeremiah's Sixth Prophecy (see Book comments for Jeremiah). came. The danger attending this message is shown in Jeremiah 26 . Compare Jeremiah 7:2 with Jeremiah 26:2 ; Jeremiah 7:3 with J...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, The word that came to Jeremiah - This prophecy is supposed to have been delivered in the first year of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, who...
The word that came to Jeremiah— We have here a new discourse, which reaches to the 13th chapter, wherein the prophet declaims against the vices of Judah and Jerusalem, particularly their hypocrisy...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, The prophet stood at the gate of the temple, in order that the multitudes from the country might hear him. His life was threatened, it app...
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence.
VII. (1) This chapter and the three that follow form again another great prophetic sermon, delivered to the crowds that flocked to the Temple. There is nothing in the discourse which absolutely fi...
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...
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 peo...
CONTENTS Here seems to be the opening of a new Sermon of the Prophet's: but the same subject. The Prophet reproves Judah, and admonisheth to return to the Lord.
The word that came to Jeremiah ,.... The Word of prophecy, as the Targum: from the Lord, saying ; this begins a new prophecy. This verse, and the beginning of the next, are wanting in the Septuagi...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Ver. 1. The word that came to Jeremiah. ] A new sermon, but to the same purpose as the former. See on Jeremiah 1:2 . Toto libro idem argumen...
The word of the Lord , &c. The date of this new sermon is not precisely marked, but it is probable it was delivered not long after the preceding one, and on the following occasion. “Besides the...
A Call of Repentance. B. C. 606. 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the L ORD , sayin...
JEREMIAH CHAPTER 7 . A call to true repentance, Jeremiah 7:1-7 ; and not, living in theft, murder, adultery, perjury, &c.. to trust in the outward worship and temple of God, by the example of...
Judah Must Not Trust In The Presence Of The Temple For Security Because As A Result Of Their Evil Ways YHWH Intends To Do To The Temple What He Did To His House At Shiloh, Destroy It ( Jeremiah 7:1-...
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 betw...
The word that came The general character of the message in the temple gate is, like the first and second messages, one of rebuke, warning, and exhortation, but this message is addressed more t...
Jeremiah 7:1-3 . The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Stand in the gate of the LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that...
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 ha...
Stand in the gate. .. and proclaim. Boldness in preaching Some preachers are traders from port to port, following the customary and approved course; others adventure over the whole ocean of hum...
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...
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, the fact that he received his messages by inspiration of God being brought out time and again, saying,
Jeremiah 7:1