1 Kings 20:23; 1 Kings 20:28; Ezekiel 20:32-35; Jonah 1:3; Jonah 1:4; Psalms 113:5; Psalms 139:1-10
At hand - Or, near. An appeal to the omnipotence of God in demonstration of the wickedness of the prophets. His power is not limited, so that He...
[Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God (s) afar off? (s) Do I not see your falsehood, however you cloak it, and wherever you commit it?...
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...
Am.... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6. and not, &c. Figure of speech Pleonasm , for emphasis.
Here he especially shakes off from hypocrites their self-delusions; for they were torpid in their vices, because they thought that they could i...
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Am I a God at hand, - and not a God afar off? - You act as if you thought I could not s...
Am I a God at hand, &c.— This verse is well explained by the next: "Do you think that I regard heavenly things only, and not those of the earth...
Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Am I a God at hand ... and not a God afar off? - Let not the false prophets fancy...
1-4. A remnant shall return.
Think you that My knowledge is subject to human limitations? These men do not deceive Me as they do the people.
Am I a God at hand...? — This and the two questions that follow are essentially the same in thought. The false prophets acted as if God were far aw...
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...
At the opening of this passage, we have the Lord's sentence upon them, and an awful one it is. Wormwood and gall are strong figures to set forth the...
[Am] I a God at hand, saith the Lord ,.... Or "near" f; that is, in heaven; and only sees, and hears, and observes persons and things there, being n...
Jeremiah 23:23 [Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? Ver. 23. Am I a God at hand, and not a God afar off? ] See I not wh...
Am I a God at hand and not a God afar off? Do these false prophets imagine that I am only a God in some particular places, and that I cannot see or...
Guilt of False Prophets. B. C. 600. ...
Atheism is generally the foundation of ill life. Men say God sees them not, the Almighty doth not regard. them. By a God at hand many understand heav...
Jeremiah's Diatribe Against The Prophets, Headed As ‘Concerning The Prophets' ( Jeremiah 23:9-40 ). Having set right the vision of the future, Jer...
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...
Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? God nigh at hand God is nigh at hand for judgment: the period of judgment, therefor...
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
Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, one whose power is limited to a small circle, and not a God afar off? whose power and understanding is unlimite...
23 Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?