Jeremiah 7:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? ”

• Jeremiah 7:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The proof of the hopeless immorality of the people is this, that they worship pagan deities (1) generally in the cities of Judah, and not in the capital only; and (2) publicly in the streets of...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Worship of Astarte. The prophet is forbidden to intercede for a people who are even now worshipping other gods, to their own deserved ruin. The cult (p. 99) described in Jeremiah 7:18 (and mo...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  Here God shews first why he ought to be implacable towards the people: for the command to the Prophet not to pray for them seems at the first hearing to be very severe; and it might have been o...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? Seest thou not what they do - Yahweh leaves it to Jeremiah himself to decide, is there not good reason that...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence.

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Seest thou not...? — We enter on one of the darker regions of Jewish idolatry, such as Ezekiel ( Jeremiah 8 ) saw in vision. A foreign worship of the basest kind was practised, not only in secret,...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - 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 7:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Here is a very solemn scripture indeed, in which the Lord forbids his servant even to pray for the people. And there is another solemn scripture suitable to be read together, Ezekiel 16:42 . When th...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Seest thou not what they do in the cities Judah ,.... Not in one city only, but in all of and particularly the chief of them; as follows: and in the streets of Jerusalem ? these words, with what i...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? Ver. 17. Seest thou not what they do? ] a And hast thou yet a heart to pray for them? and should I yet have...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah Thou canst not pass along the streets, but thou must needs be an eye witness of their abominations, committed openly and publicly in the face of t...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Punishment Predicted. B. C. 606.       16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither l...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  q.d. How canst thou pass along the streets but thou must needs be an eye witness of their abominations, to thy no small trouble and sorrow? as Sodom was to Lot, 2 Peter 2:8 ; therefore how canst t...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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 ( Jer...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Seest thou not what they do in the streets of Jerusalem? The streets of the city I. As an index to character. 1. The streets are the pulse of commercial prosperity. The man who goes from a d...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Idolatry and Disobedience of the Jews

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• Jeremiah 7:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Ezekiel 14:23 ; Ezekiel 8:6-18 ; Jeremiah 6:27

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