Jeremias 23:22-24 NVIPT

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:16-22

A warning addressed to the people against the false prophecies (comp. Ezekiel 13:1-23 .). read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:16-22

Trying the spirits. In Jeremiah 23:18 read, "For who hath stood in the counsel of Jehovah? Let him see and hear his word: who hath marked his word? Let him proclaim it." I. HEARERS ARE TO DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN FALSE PROPHETS AND TRUE . A very serious permission. But not for an occasion only: to be exercised whenever the witnesses conflict. The essential principle of Protestantism. The prophet is one who speaks in God's Name and reveals his will. The question,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:21-22

In Jeremiah 23:17-20 Jeremiah has shown that these cannot be true prophets, because their message is diametrically opposed to the true revelation. He now proves it from the absence of any moral effect from their preaching. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-24

Am I a God at hand , etc.? ("At hand" equivalent to "near.") Eliphaz may again assist us with an illustration. "And thou sayest "—he is expostulating with Job—"What doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud? thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; yea, he walketh upon the vault of heaven" ( Job 22:13 , Job 22:14 ). It might seem, from the preponderance of the false prophets ever the true, as if Jehovah were unaware of the mischief. Not so; Jehovah is omnipresent. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-24

The omnipresence of God. I. THE FACT . God must he thought of as fully present everywhere; not as a great Being who fills a great space with, however, only distinct parts in each section of space. The whole of God is present everywhere. He is as much present in every separate locality as if he existed nowhere else. All his infinite attributes of knowledge, power, and goodness are present, to be brought to bear on each individual of the infinite variety of things in the universe. God... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-24

The omnipresence of God. I. A PERSONAL ATTRIBUTE . 1. Infinitely near to all his creatures . 2. All-seeing . 3. Filling all in all . II. A MORAL INFLUENCE . The question is asked. Every conscience confesses it. The dispensation of the Spirit which convinces the world "of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment" is the latest expression of this. 1. Deterrent . 2. Intensifying . 3. Encouraging .—M. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-24

The omnipresent God. It is an essentially heathen conception of the Deity against which these grand words bear witness. There were two false tendencies of the heathen mind to which the Hebrew faith was a perpetual rebuke—one was that of thinking of the Deity as dwelling remote from the ways of men, "throned in sequestered sanctity," too lofty to take any interest in the affairs of earth; the other that of localizing and limiting the Deity, conceiving of him as exercising a partial... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-32

Jehovah has observed and will punish the false pretensions of the prophets. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-32

The giving forth of the word of man as the word of God. I. GOD 'S UNFAILING OBSERVATION . All the reasonings within the minds of these false prophets are open to God. They themselves, audacious, and to some extent self-deluded, reckon on not being detected. They speak what the people wish to believe, and are thus pretty certain of finding acceptance from them. But they forget, or rather they have never properly understood, the omnipresence of God. If this attribute of God had been... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 23:22

They should have turned them ... - The work of the true prophet, which is to turn men from evil unto good. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:16-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:16-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:21-22

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-24

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-32

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 23:23-32

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 23:22

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