q.d. How canst thou pass along the streets but thou must needs be an eye witness of their abominations, to thy no small trouble and sorrow? as Sodom was to Lot, 2 Peter 2:8; therefore how canst thou plead with me on their behalf? How canst thou either pray for them, or I pity them? In the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; in city and country. See Jeremiah 2:28; Jeremiah 11:13. read more
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. Chronology of the chapter. Keil regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. Bagster places an interval of merely two years between chaps. 6 and 7, dating this B.C. 610, two years before Josiah’s death. The A.V. places it ten years after Jehoiakim became king. But Dahler, Graf, Naeg., Lange, Hend., and Dr. Payne Smith identify this chapter with chap. 26. (cf. the corresponding verses, Jeremiah 7:2; Jeremiah 7:13-14, with Jeremiah... read more
Chapter 7So chapter 7. King Josiah, who was reigning at the beginning of Jeremiah's ministry, in the eighteenth year of his reign, ordered the temple restored. It had fallen into disrepair. It sort of lay in ruins. They had in the outer courts built altars unto Baal and unto Molech, and they had forsaken the worship of God, of the Lord in the temple for years. So Josiah now ordered that the temple be restored and he gave to Hilkiah, the high priest, a great sum of money that he might hire... read more
Jeremiah 7:2 . Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and call the people to repentance by arguments arrayed in all the glory and force of truth. This was the chief gate of entrance. The temple had three gates on the north, and three on the south. The character of these addresses, Dr. Dahler thinks, associate with the degenerate times of Jehoiakim. Jeremiah 7:4 . Trust ye not in lying words, muttered daily by the false prophets, saying, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord,... read more
Jeremiah 7:17-18Seest thou not what they do in the streets of Jerusalem?The streets of the cityI. As an index to character.1. The streets are the pulse of commercial prosperity. The man who goes from a dull, sluggish place to a city of great business activity must quicken his pace, or get run over.2. The street on which a man lives is no index to his character. It does not even indicate the amount of money he has. Not a few proud families stint their table to pay their rent on a costly street,... read more
Jer 7:17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? Ver. 17. Seest thou not what they do? ] a And hast thou yet a heart to pray for them? and should I yet have a heart to pity them? There is only this hope left sometimes, that something God will yield to the prayers of his people, even when he is most bitterly bent against them. “ Flectitur iratus, voce rogante, Deus. ” a Ratio additur quasi digito ad Ieremiam extenso. read more
Jeremiah 6:27, Ezekiel 8:6-Job :, Ezekiel 14:23 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:29 - Seest thou Jeremiah 44:9 - the wickedness of your read more
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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:16-20
Jeremiah 7:16-Proverbs : . The Worship of Astarte.— The prophet is forbidden to intercede for a people who are even now worshipping other gods, to their own deserved ruin. The cult (p. 99) described in Jeremiah 7:18 (and more fully in Jeremiah 44:15-Amos :) is that of Ashtoreth (Astarte), “ the queen of heaven” , i.e. the planet Venus, who was worshipped under the name of Ishtar by the Babylonians ( 1 Kings 11:5 *). A similar offering of cakes (p. 99) by women to the Virgin Mary, practised... read more