Jeremiah 7:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? ”

• Jeremiah 7:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Do they not provoke ... - literally, Is it not themselves (“that they provoke”) to the shame of their faces?

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - 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 7:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  provoke. Note the Figure of speech Ploke , by which the one word implies. second meaning. "Do they provoke Me... ? No: they bring on themselves" the judgments of Jehovah. Reference to Pentateuch (...

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  He then subjoins, Do they provoke me, and not rather to the shame of their own faces? God here intimates, that however reproachfully the Jews acted towards him, they yet brought no loss to h...

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves in...

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Do they not provoke themselves...? — The interpolated words, though they complete the sense, mar the abrupt force of the Hebrew. Is it not themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - 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 7:19 - 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 7:19 - 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 7:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord ,.... No: he cannot be provoked to anger as men are; anger does not fall upon him as it does on men; there is no such affection in God as there is in men;...

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Ver. 19. Do they provoke me to anger? ] i.e., Hurt they me by their provocat...

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - 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 7:19 - 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 7:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Do they think to grieve me, and trouble my mind? They are deceived, I am without passion, and can be without their offerings. Will not they themselves feel the smart of it? Jeremiah 7:6 . Will the...

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - 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 7:19 - 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 7:19 - 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 7:19 - 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 7:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Idolatry and Disobedience of the Jews

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• Jeremiah 7:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:22 ; Daniel 9:7 ; Daniel 9:8 ; Deuteronomy 32:16 ; Deuteronomy 32:21 ; Deuteronomy 32:22 ; Ezekiel 8:17 ; Ezekiel 8:18 ; Ezra 9:7 ; Isaiah 1:20 ; Isaiah 1:24 ; Isaiah 45:...

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