Jeremiah 7:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction:d truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. ”

• Jeremiah 7:28 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  A nation - The “nation.” Israel holds so unique a position among all nations that for it to disobey God is marvelous. Truth ... - Fidelity to God. Though they have the name of Yahweh often up...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  a . the. obeyeth . hearkeneth to. correction: or instruction, or discipline. truth . fidelity, or veracity. their. The Babylonian Codex reads "your".

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  God shews now that he must act in a new way. The first duty of teachers is to set forth the will of God, to shew what is right, and then to exhort, if plain teaching proves not sufficient. But...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Nor receiveth correcti...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Thou shalt say u...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  But thou shalt say. — Better, And thou shalt say, with an implied “therefore.” This is a nation. — Better, This is the nation, as pre-eminent in its sin. Truth. — Better, as in Jeremiah...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - 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 7:28 - 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 7:28 - 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...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  But thou shalt say unto them ,.... Having found by experience, after long speaking and calling to them, that they are a disobedient and incorrigible people: this is a nation that obeyeth not the v...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  But thou shalt say unto them, This [is] a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Ver. 28. This is a...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - 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,...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Obedience Better than Sacrifice. B. C. 606.       21 Thus saith the L ORD of hosts, the God...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God; spoke in a way of contempt: q.d. A nation more than heathenish; though they profess themselves a peculiar people to me, yet to be...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - 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 7:28 - 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 7:28 - 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 7:28 - 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 7:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Idolatry and Disobedience of the Jews

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hosea 4:1 ; Isaiah 1:4 ; Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 59:14 ; Isaiah 59:15 ; Jeremiah 2:30 ; Jeremiah 32:33 ; Jeremiah 5:1 ; Jeremiah 5:3 ; Jeremiah 6:29 ; Jeremiah 6:30 ; Jeremiah 6:8 ; Jeremiah...

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• Jeremiah 7:28 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Cut off — There is no believing them in any thing they say.

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