“ Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. ”
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...
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
He again teaches what we observed yesterday, — that the glorying of the Jews was foolish, while they boasted of the Temple and of their sacrifices to God. He calls their boastings the words of...
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Lying words that cannot profit. Maurer translates. 'so that you profit nothing' (see Jeremiah 7:4 , "lying words;" Jeremiah 5:31 ).
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence.
Lying words. — With special reference to those already cited in Jeremiah 7:4 .
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...
From what is said in these verses of men talking as if delivered to do evil, it should seem, that there were in the Prophet's days, as well as in ours, persons who took occasion from the doctrine of...
‘A REFUGE OF LIES’ ‘Lying words, that cannot profit.’ Jeremiah 7:8 I. God tears open the ‘lying words’ of many who worship Him, and what does He find? —Hypocrisy, fraud, a festering mass of...
Behold, ye trust in lying words ,.... What they are dissuaded from, Jeremiah 7:4 , is here affirmed they did, and which is introduced with a note of asseveration, attention, and admiration; it bein...
Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit. Ver. 8. Behold, ye trust, &c. ] See on Jeremiah 7:4 .
Behold, ye trust in lying words Uttered by your false prophets, who promise you peace, and sooth you up in your impenitence. Will ye steal, murder , &c. Jeremiah does not charge them with the...
A Call of Repentance. B. C. 606. 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the L ORD , sayin...
Behold; take notice of it, and think of it seriously. Ye trust in lying words; either flattering yourselves with your own conceits, whereby, in your discourses, you strengthen one another; or dep...
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...
trust ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 2:12 ).
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...
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...
Behold, ye trust in lying words, those of the false prophets, the hypocritical leaders, that cannot profit, which brought only harm and the curse upon them.
Ezekiel 13:6-16 ; Isaiah 28:15 ; Isaiah 30:10 ; Jeremiah 14:13 ; Jeremiah 14:14 ; Jeremiah 23:14-16 ; Jeremiah 23:26 ; Jeremiah 23:32 ; Jeremiah 4:10 ; Jeremiah 5:31 ; Jeremiah 7:4 ; Jere...