Jeremiah 7:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerningb burnt offerings or sacrifices: ”

Jeremiah 7:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For (k) I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: (k) Showing that it was not his chief purpo...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Obedience Necessary, not Sacrifice . Yahweh scornfully tells these formal worshippers to eat even the burnt-offering (wholly offered to God), as well as the peace-offering (which was eaten by the wo...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I spake not... concerning... sacrifices. Reference to Pentateuch ( Exodus 15:26 ; Exodus 19:5 ), which was before any law was given. This vindicates the passage from modern criticism. Compare L...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet therefore adds, I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them, in the day I brought them forth from the land of Egypt, concerning sacrifices or burnt — offerings: but this onl...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
Jeremiah 7:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Put your burnt-offerings, &c.— Houbigant renders this, Put together your burnt-offerings with your peace-offerings; and eat their flesh. The meaning is, "Eat your sacrifices yourselves, your...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: For I spake not unto your fathers, nor...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence.
Jeremiah 7:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I spake not... concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices. — “Concerning” is, literally, for, or with a view to, the matter of sacrifices. The words seem at first hard to reconcile with the multi...
Jeremiah 7:22 - 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...
Jeremiah 7:22 - 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...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I pause, not to interrupt the Reader in the progress of these verses, they are all to the same amount as the former. How pathetically the Prophet mourns the obstinacy of his people! Surely ministers...
Jeremiah 7:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For I spake not unto your fathers ,.... Meaning not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Moses, Aaron, and others, who were living at the time of the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt, as ap...
Jeremiah 7:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: Ver. 22. For I spake not unto your fathers....
Jeremiah 7:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel And let Israel hear when their God speaks Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh The burnt-offerings, after they were flayed,...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Obedience Better than Sacrifice. B. C. 606. 21 Thus saith the L ORD of hosts, the God...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Some would argue from hence that sacrifices were at first an invention of men, as papists and Socinians; and because they should not be used to idols, God gave way for the introducing them into his w...
Jeremiah 7:22 - 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...
Jeremiah 7:22 - 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...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Scofield Reference Notes

nor commanded ( See Scofield) - ( Exodus 20:4 ), note 2, the threefold giving of the law. The command concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices was not given to the people till they had b...
Jeremiah 7:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 7:21-22 . Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day th...
Jeremiah 7:22 - 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...
Jeremiah 7:22 - 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...
Jeremiah 7:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Idolatry and Disobedience of the Jews
Jeremiah 7:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 15:22 ; Hosea 6:6 ; Mark 12:33 ; Matthew 9:13 ; Psalms 40:6 ; Psalms 50:8-17 ; Psalms 51:16 ; Psalms 51:17
Jeremiah 7:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For — God doth not condemn these offerings, save only comparatively in respect of obedience, not so much these, as obeying his commands.

Jeremiah 7:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 7:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 7:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 7:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 7:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 7:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 7:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 7:22 - Scofield Reference Notes

Jeremiah 7:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 7:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 7:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 7:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 7:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 7:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes