Jeremiah 7:4 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4

The confidence of superstition. I. CONFIDENT LANGUAGE IS NO GUARANTEE FOR A SECURE FOUNDATION OF TRUST . The Jews are vehement in exclamation; but their words are boastful without ground. Frequent repetition is no evidence of the truth of a saying. Yet, though against all reason, and by mere force of urgency, how many convictions have been thus forced on the belief of mankind! Trite sayings are commonly accepted for true sayings. We do not think to test the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4

How men deceive themselves. "The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord," etc. The people of Jerusalem were flattering themselves that no harm would come to them because of the presence in their midst of the temple of the Lord. And men flatter themselves in like manner still. Now let us— I. CONSIDER THEIR ARGUMENT . God had said, "In this house will I dwell." They knew that, and hence it seemed impossible that it should be devastated by the heathen. It was the place of which... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4

Lying words. These were "lying words," as being used by false men for a false purpose. Literally true, for it was "the temple of the Lord" that stood in the midst of the land, and in the gate of which this message was delivered,—they were false in spirit, for the deceitful prophets thought thus to make the sanctity of the material structure a cover for the iniquities of the people—a charm to ward off their threatened punishment. The cry was indicative of a hollow and rotten condition of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4-7

Who shall dwell in the house of the Lord? I. AN UNWARRANTABLE ASSUMPTION . They arrogate to themselves, not only the exclusive possession of a meeting-place between God and man, but they speak of themselves as in a special and peculiar sense the temple of God. 1. There is an argument latent here. The temple is looked upon as a permanent and immovable building—a place of intercourse between Jehovah and his people. It is the only place of the kind, and it will stand for aye. But... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:4

The temple of the Lord - Thrice repeated, to emphasize the rejection of the cry ever upon the lips of the false prophets. In their view the maintenance of the temple-service was a charm sufficient to avert all evil.These - The buildings of the temple, to which Jeremiah is supposed to point. The Jews put their trust in the material buildings. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 7:4

Jeremiah 7:4. Trust ye not in lying words Do not flatter yourselves with an opinion that you can be safe and happy on any other terms than those which God points out. Saying, The temple of the Lord, &c., are these As much as to say, God hath placed his name here, Jeremiah 7:10, and chose these stately buildings as the place of his peculiar residence, and what reason is there to believe that he will ever forsake it, and give it up to be destroyed by strangers and idolaters? Thus,... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-15

7:1-20:18 THE SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF JUDAHJeremiah at the temple (7:1-15)This message seems to belong to the period of religious decline that followed the death of Josiah. Though Josiah had done well to restore the temple, the people developed a wrong, even superstitious, attitude towards it. They felt that it was sacred, that it belonged to God, and that therefore he would not allow any enemy to destroy it. They thought that the presence of the temple in Jerusalem guaranteed the city against... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 7:4

Trust = Confide. Hebrew. batah. App-69 . The temple of the LORD . Note the Figure of speech Epizeuxis ( App-4 ), for great emphasis, to exhibit the fanaticism common to all idolaters. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:4

"Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor; if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt: then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old, even... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:4

Jeremiah 7:4. The temple of the Lord are these— These gates, in which Jeremiah was commanded to stand: so in the Gospel our Savour says, See you all these things? pointing to the temple, of which one stone was not to be left upon another. The threefold repetition of the temple of the Lord, expresses great vehemence, and an extreme presumption in these people. The prophet in apostrophizing Judaea, chap. Jer 22:29 makes use of a like threefold repetition. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4-7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 7:4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-15

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 7:4

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:4

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:4

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