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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:1-34

With this section the second movement in commissioning the prophet commences. It deals first with the sins of worship. These are first denounced. At the gate of the Temple the prophet rebuked the people for putting their trust in external things, and told them that their true safety lay in amending their ways. He charged them with committing all manner of sin, and yet standing before God in His house, imagining that by this external act they would be delivered and set free to continue in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:1-34

Subsection 3. In This Subsection Jeremiah Admonishes The People Concerning The False Confidence That They Have In The Inviolability Of The Temple, And In Their Sacrificial Ritual, And After Chiding Them, Calls On Them To Recognise The Kind Of God That They Are Dealing With (Jeremiah 7:1 to Jeremiah 10:25 ). Commencing with what will be the standard introductory words up to chapter 25, ‘The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH --’ (Jeremiah 7:1; compare Jeremiah 11:1; Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:29-34

Having Described His People As Having Deceived Minds And Stiff Necks YHWH Now Calls On Them To Mourn Over Their Rejection By Him Because Of Their Doings, And Illustrates In Detail How Far They Have Gone From Him, Whilst Warning Again Of The Consequences (Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3 ). YHWH now turns from the question of their general disobedience and idolatry, to their particular disobedience in reference to their especially evil behaviour with regard to idols in that they have set up... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:29-34

Jeremiah 7:29 to Jeremiah 8:3 . Mourning for Judah’ s Dead.— Let Jerusalem mourn, and raise a dirge on the heights (where she sinned by her idolatry), because of the near approach of the punishment for the desecration of Yahweh’ s house, and for the offering of human sacrifice, which Yahweh never ordered. The land shall be full of corpses ( Jeremiah 7:32 mg.) , and all joy shall cease. The valley of Hinnom shall be renamed “ Slaughter” , and burials will have to be made even in the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off thine hair; it was a usual token of sorrow among the Jews to cut off the hair, Job 1:20; Isaiah 15:2; Micah 1:16. But here he speaketh either, 1. To Jeremiah; for O Jerusalem is not in the text; or, 2. To the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and so speaks to them as a woman, whose hair is for an ornament, 1 Corinthians 11:15. Therefore this must needs signify a higher degree of sorrow. Cutting the hair among the ancients did signify, 1. Mourning. 2. Bondage. For the cutting off the hair in... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-34

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

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-34

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

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 7:1-34

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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29

Jer 7:29 Cut off thine hair, [O Jerusalem], and cast [it] away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. Ver. 29. Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem. ] In token of greatest sorrow and servitude. Job 1:20 Isa 15:2 Eze 27:31 Tu, dum servus es, comam nutris? said he in Aristophanes. The word here rendered "hair" is nezir, which signifieth a crown, and there hence the Nazarites had their name, Numbers 6:2 ; Num 6:5... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Jeremiah 7:29

Cut: Jeremiah 16:6, Jeremiah 47:5, Jeremiah 48:37, Job 1:20, Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 15:3, Micah 1:16 and take: Jeremiah 9:17-Ecclesiastes :, Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 28:12 for: Jeremiah 6:30, 2 Kings 17:20, Zechariah 11:8, Zechariah 11:9 generation: Deuteronomy 32:5, Matthew 3:7, Matthew 12:39, Matthew 16:4, Matthew 23:36, Acts 2:40 Reciprocal: Leviticus 10:6 - Uncover Ezra 9:3 - off Jeremiah 9:10 - the mountains Ezekiel 26:17 - take Amos 5:1 - I take Luke 11:50 - may read more

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