The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:8-15
The formalism of Jewish religion exposed. The lesson of Shiloh. read more
耶利米書 7:5-8 Cunpts
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:5-7
A summary of the conditions indispensable on man’s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor.Jeremiah 7:6In this place - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent blood shed there judicially. Of one such judicial murder Jehoiakim had already been guilty Jeremiah 26:23.Jeremiah 7:7Why then do not the Jews still possess a land thus eternally given them? Because God never bestows anything unconditionally. The land was bestowed upon them by virtue of a covenant... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 7:5-7
Jeremiah 7:5-7. For if ye thoroughly amend your ways, &c. In these verses the prophet tells them particularly what the amendment was which was necessary that they might escape destruction. It must be a thorough amendment, a universal, continued, persevering reformation; not partial, but entire; not hypocritical, but sincere; not wavering, but constant. They must make the tree good, and so make the fruit good; must amend their hearts and thoughts, and so amend their ways and doings.... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 7:8-11
Jeremiah 7:8-11. Behold, ye trust in lying words Uttered by your false prophets, who promise you peace, and sooth you up in your impenitence. Will ye steal, murder, &c. Jeremiah does not charge them with the transgression of the ritual law of Moses, but with the breach of the weightier matters of the moral law. Thus the prophets showed the Jews a more excellent way of serving God than by relying upon external ceremonies of their worship, which might have prepared their minds for the... 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 7:5
man. Hebrew. 'ish . App-14 . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 7:6
stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 24:17 ). innocent blood. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 19:10 ). See note on Isaiah 59:7 . other gods. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 20:3 .Deuteronomy 6:14 ; Deuteronomy 8:19 , &c). App-92 . read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 7:7
Then will I cause, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 4:40 ). for ever and ever. Put by Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Whole), for an age-abiding duration. read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 7:8
Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6 . read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:8
Lying words ; such as those quoted in Jeremiah 7:4 . read more