Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:11
In my house - They had even introduced idolatry into the Temple of God! read more
Jeremiah 23:8-14 Esv
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:13
I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria - This was not to be wondered at, for their religion was a system of corruption. read more
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem - That is, the prophets of Jerusalem, while professing a pure faith, have followed the ways, and become as corrupt as the prophets of Samaria. They are all of them unto me as Sodom - Incorrigible, brutish sinners, who will as surely be destroyed as Sodom and Gomorrah were. read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:8
Verse 8 He says, from all the lands to which I shall have driven them, and he says this for two reasons, which we shall presently state. The change of person does not obscure the meaning: Live, he says, does Jehovah, who brought out and led his people from the land of the north, and from all the lands to which I had driven them; but there is no ambiguity in the sense. As to the subject itself, it seems that God in the first place intended to remind the Jews of their sins, as this knowledge was... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:9
Verse 9 The Prophet here again inveighs against the wickedness of the people; but as the prophets by their flatteries had then led astray the king and his princes, as well as the people, the Prophet directed his discourse to them, and says that his heart was troubled on account of the prophets We know that men think themselves half absolved when no one severely reproves them. When, therefore, the prophets ceased from their work, there was so great a security among the whole people, that there... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:10
Verse 10 Jeremiah now assigns the reason why he was so much horrified by the insensibility which he observed in the prophets. If things were in good order, or if, at least, they were tolerable, the prophets would have more calmly addressed the Jews; for what need is there to make a great ado when men willingly follow what God commands? When, therefore, we have to do with meek and modest men, vehemence is foolish; and they who thus bestir themselves, and seek, through great ambition, to shew... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:11
Verse 11 He adds here that it ought not to appear strange that the prophets were silent when they ought to have loudly cried out, because they were guilty themselves: and whence can freedom of speech come except from a good conscience? Hypocrites, who indulge themselves, are indeed often severe against others, and even more than necessary; but no one can dare honestly to cry out against wickedness, but he who is innocent. For he who condemns others seems to make a law for himself, according to... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:12
Verse 12 Here he declares to false prophets and unfaithful priests that the Lord’s judgment was nigh at hand, because they had deceived the people. But he speaks figuratively when he says, that their way would be to them as lubricities. By way he understands the means which they thought to be of the best kind, as elsewhere, nearly in the same sense, what is deemed delectable, or what conduces to sustain life, is called “the table” of the wicked. (Psalms 69:22.) The meaning then is, that when... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:13
Verse 13 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 worship in the kingdom of Israel, with those in Jerusalem who wished to appear more holy and more perfect. And he thus compares them that he might set forth those who sought to be deemed God’s faithful ministers, as being by far the worst; for he says, that he had found fatuity in the prophets of Samaria, but depravity in the prophets of... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 23:10
The land is full of adulterers - Of idolaters. Of persons who break their faith to ME, as an impure wife does to her husband. The pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up - He speaks here, most probably, in reference to dearth. Profane oaths, false swearing, evil courses, violence, etc., had provoked God to send this among other judgments; see Jeremiah 23:19 . read more