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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 23:29

Like as a fire - God’s word is the great purifier which destroys all that is false and aves, only the genuine metal. Compare Hebrews 4:12.Like a hammer ... - God’s word rouses and strengthens the conscience and crushes within the heart everything that is evil. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:23-24

Jeremiah 23:23-24. Am I a God at hand and not a God afar off? Do these false prophets imagine that I am only a God in some particular places, and that I cannot see or know things done privately, or at a distance from the place where they suppose me to be? Do they think to impose upon me, or vent their own dreams in my name, and I not discover them? As if either distance or secrecy could place any thing out of the reach of my power and knowledge. Atheism, or ignorance of God, is generally... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:25-27

Jeremiah 23:25-27. I have heard what the prophets say, &c. I am perfectly acquainted with what these prophets have thought and said, though they think I take no notice of it, and so continue to act the same counterfeit part over again. Saying, I have dreamed I have had a divine vision, or have received information from God in a dream. This, it appears, the false prophets often pretended, when they had received nothing of the kind. How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets? ... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 23:28-29

Jeremiah 23:28-29. The prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream Or, as some render it, let him tell it as a dream. Let him lay no more stress upon it than men do upon their dreams, nor expect any more regard to be paid to it. Or, he that pretends to have a message from God, either by dream, or vision, or voice, or otherwise, let him declare it. And he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully Let him speak it, as truth; so some read the clause; let him keep close to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 23:23

Am I . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . and not, &c. Figure of speech Pleonasm , for emphasis. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 23:24

Can . . . ? . . . Do . . . ? Figure of speech E rotesis. fill. The Hebrew accent (" Tiphcha' ") puts the emphasis on "fill" (not on "earth"), denoting the fullness of the Divine presence which no place can in clude, or ex clude. A fullness of grace, of the prophetic word of judgment, and of promise. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 23:25

I have dreamed. Thus catching the people's ears. Note Figure of speech Epizeuxis. App-6 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 23:26

How long . . . ? Figure of speech Erotesis. shall this be = shall this exist. Hebrew. yesh. See notes on Jeremiah 31:6 , Jeremiah 31:16 , Jeremiah 31:17 . Proverbs 8:21 ; Proverbs 18:24 , and Luke 7:25 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 23:28

he that hath, &c. Compare Ezekiel 13:7 . chaff = crushed, or chopped straw. Hebrew. teben. read more

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