Jeremiah 27:9

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 27:1-11

Some difficulty occurs in the date of this prophecy. This word is said to come to Jeremiah in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim (Jer. 27:1), and yet the messengers, to whom he is to deliver the badges of servitude, are said (Jer. 27:3) to come to Zedekiah king of Judah, who reigned not till eleven years after the beginning of Jehoiakim's reign. Some make it an error of the copy, and think that it should be read (Jer. 27:1), In the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, for which some... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 27:9

Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets ,.... False prophets, as the Targum. These words are not directed to the Jews, but are a continuation of what the messengers of the nations should say to their masters from the God of Israel, by the mouth of his prophet; for they had their prophets as well as the Jews; as the prophets of Baal, and others: nor to your diviners ; or soothsayers; such an one as was Balaam: nor to your dreamers ; or "dreams"; such as they had themselves, and laid... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 27:9

Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets - Who pretend to have a revelation from heaven. Nor to your diviners - קסמיכם kosemeychem , from קסם kasam , to presage or prognosticate. Persons who guessed at futurity by certain signs in the animate or inanimate creation. Nor to your dreamers - חלמתיכם chalomotheychem , from חלם chalam , to break in pieces; hence חלום chalom , a dream, because it consists of broken fragments. Dream-interpreters, who, from these broken... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 27:9

Verse 9 As Jeremiah had declared to the king, as well as to the citizens, that they could not escape the punishment that was at hand, he now shakes off from them that vain confidence, which was as an obstacle in the way, so that they were not touched by threatenings, nor received wholesome warnings. For the false prophets deceived them by their flatteries, and promised that all things would happen prosperously to them. As then the Prophet saw that the ears both of the king and of the people... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 27:1-11

Jehovah's consideration towards some neighbors of Israel. I. GOD FORESEES THE NATURAL PROBABILITY OF A STRUGGLE . Nebuchadnezzar and his hosts are not to drop from the clouds on the land of Jehovah's people whom Jehovah has now doomed. These hosts come from a distant land, and have many intervening lands to pass through; and how can they pass through in any but a destroying, impoverishing fashion? If the King of Babylon is to reach Jerusalem, the lands here mentioned must... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 27:1-22

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 27:1-22

Divine judgments not to be resisted. A conference of ambassadors from neighboring nations had been held at Zedekiah's court to consider plans of revolt against Nebuchadnezzar. The king himself and a patriotic party were bent upon resistance. This movement Jeremiah checked at its very outset by his symbolical warning. I. GOD IS RULER OF ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH . He made them, and controls their destinies. Of the earth he says, "I have given it unto whom it... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 27:9

Your dreamers ; rather, your dreams . So in Jeremiah 29:8 the "dreams" of the people are expressly distinguished from the utterances of the prophets and soothsayers. In our passage the "dreamers" are appropriately mentioned between the "diviners" and the "enchanters," because the skill of the soothsayers partly lay in the interpretation of dreams (comp. Genesis 41:8 ; Daniel 2:2 ). read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 27:9

Dreamers - literally, as in the margin. People dream dreams for themselves, and go to diviners to ask the explanation of them. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 27:9-11

Jeremiah 27:9-11 . Hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners These nations, it must be observed, had their prophets as well as the Jews, or rather persons that pretended to foretel future events by consulting the stars, by dreams, and various arts of divination; and they, to please their patrons, flattered them with assurances that they should not be brought into subjection and servitude by the king of Babylon. By these means they designed to animate them to a vigorous... read more

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