2 Chronicles 33:9; Hosea 9:7; Hosea 9:8; Isaiah 9:16; Jeremiah 2:8
And I have seen folly ... - Rather, “Also I have seen.” The prophet contrasts the prophets of Samaria with those of Jerusalem. In the conduct of...
The Prophets. Jeremiah is overcome by the stern message given him to deliver. The evil of the land is encouraged by prophet and priest ( Jeremiah 6...
These two verses are to be read together; for there is no doubt but that the Prophet here compares the false prophets, who had corrupted God’s...
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. I have seen folly in the prophets of S...
I have seen folly— Jeremiah draws a contrast between the sins of the prophets of Samaria, and of Jerusalem, and pronounces those of the latter to b...
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. I have seen folly - literally,...
1-4. A remnant shall return.
I have seen folly... — Literally, as in Job 6:6 , that which is unsavoury — i.e., insipid, and so, ethically, foolish. The guilt of the prop...
CHAPTER VIII BAD SHEPHERDS AND FALSE PROPHETS Jeremiah 23:1-40 , Jeremiah 24:1-10 "Woe unto the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep...
Having thus passed in review the predecessors of Zedekiah on the throne of Judah, the prophet proceeded to deal with those who had been responsible f...
The Prophet is here representing the horrible state of false prophets, and the awful termination of such conduct. A portion suited not only to the da...
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria ,.... The ten tribes of Israel, among whom, in Ahab's time there were many false prophets, Baal's p...
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err. Ver. 13. And I have seen folly. ] H...
I have seen Rather, I saw , namely, formerly, before I cast them out of their own land; folly Hebrew, תפלה, stupidity, infatuation. The LXX. r...
Guilt of False Prophets. B. C. 600. ...
There was a time when I saw folly in the prophets that belonged to the ten tribes, whose chief city was Samaria. The word translated folly signif...
Jeremiah's Diatribe Against The Prophets, Headed As ‘Concerning The Prophets' ( Jeremiah 23:9-40 ). Having set right the vision of the future, Jer...
2). YHWH Calumniates The False Prophets And Questions What They Teach, Explaining What The Results Of Their Prophesying Will Be, And Emphasising Tha...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— 1. Chronology of the Chapter. —The chapter is an epilogue to the denunciations of the three kings in chap. 22. It mus...
Jeremiah 23:1 . Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. What a dreadful woe this is upon all fa...
Jeremiah 23:1 . Woe be to the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep. Princes are often called pastors, as Cyrus, Isaiah 44:28 , because they...
EXPOSITION The first eight verses form the necessary conclusion of the group of discourses summarized in Jeremiah 21:1-24 ; Jeremiah 22:1-24 ....
Against the False Prophets
And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria, perversity and absurdity, the teaching of insipid doctrines; they prophesied in Baal, insisting t...
They prophesied — Pretending they had their instructions from Baal, and so caused the ten tribes to err, which then were called Israel in contradis...
13 And I have seen follyb in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.