Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:19
19. Is it I that they provoke to anger? Is it not themselves? (Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:21; Job 35:6; Job 35:8; Proverbs 8:36). read more
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Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:20
20. beast . . . trees . . . ground—Why doth God vent His fury on these? On account of man, for whom these were created, that the sad spectacle may strike terror into him (Romans 8:20-22). read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 7:1-25
Aspects of false religion 7:1-8:3All the messages in this section deal with departure from the Lord in religious practices, either in pagan rites or in the perversion of the proper worship of Yahweh that the Mosaic Law specified. All the material in this section fits conditions in Judah after 609 B.C., when Jehoiakim began allowing a return to pagan practices after the end of Josiah’s reforms. Another feature of this section is the large amount of prose material it contains, much more than the... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 7:16-20
The Queen of Heaven cult 7:16-20This pericope continues Yahweh’s instructions to Jeremiah preparing him to deliver the Temple Sermon (cf. Jeremiah 7:1-2). Jeremiah may have received this message from the Lord at the same time or at some other time. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 7:19
By provoking the Lord, the people were really hurting and humiliating themselves. Their flagrant disobedience would come back on them, and they would suffer for their sins. read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 7:20
The Lord promised to pour out His anger and wrath on the whole land of Judah because the people were doing these things. His judgment would affect people, animals, trees, and crops; in other words, it would affect everything in the land. Nothing would put out the fires of His anger, except genuine repentance (cf. Jeremiah 7:3; Jeremiah 7:5-7). read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:1-25
Jeremiah’s Fifth Prophecy (or Group of Prophecies). Address at the Temple Gate (Reign of Josiah or Beginning of that of Jehoiakim)The prophet takes advantage of a solemn gathering of the people at Jerusalem to stand at one of the Temple gates as they pass in, and warns them against their superstitious confidence that the possession of the Temple was itself a charm against danger from without. As immorality had already brought about the overthrow of an older sanctuary (Shiloh) as well as of the... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:1-34
1-20. Ceremonies and sacred places shall be no defence.4. God, said the false prophets, will never allow His Temple to be overthrown: cp. Micah 3:11.The temple, etc.] The threefold repetition suggests ’the energy of iteration that only belongs to Eastern fanatics’ (Stanley, ’Jewish Church,’ ii, 438).5-7. Their tenure of the Temple is conditional on obedience to the covenant made by God with their fathers. 10. We are delivered] By the discharge of this formality we are set free for a return to... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Jeremiah 7:19
(19) Do they not provoke themselves . . .?—The interpolated words, though they complete the sense, mar the abrupt force of the Hebrew. Is it not themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 7:20
the Lord GOD. Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. App-4 . man. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14 . read more