Jeremiah 7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 7

The prophet having in God's name reproved the people for their sins, and given them warning of the judgments of God that were coming upon them, in this chapter prosecutes the same intention for their humiliation and awakening. I. He shows them the invalidity of the plea they so much relied on, that they had the temple of God among them and constantly attended the service of it, and endeavours to take them off from their confidence in their external privileges and performances, Jer. 7:1-11. II.... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-15

These verses begin another sermon, which is continued in this and the two following chapters, much to the same effect with those before, to reason them to repentance. Observe, I. The orders given to the prophet to preach this sermon; for he had not only a general commission, but particular directions and instructions for every message he delivered. This was a word that came to him from the Lord, Jer. 7:1. We are not told when this sermon was to be preached; but are told, 1. Where it must be... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 7:16-20

God had shown them, in the foregoing verses, that the temple and the service of it, of which they boasted and in which they trusted, should not avail to prevent the judgment threatened. But there was another thing which might stand them in some stead, and which yet they had no value for, and that was the prophet's intercession for them; his prayers would do them more good than their own pleas: now here that support is taken from them; and their case is said indeed who have lost their interest... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 7:21-28

God, having shown the people that the temple would not protect them while they polluted it with their wickedness, here shows them that their sacrifices would not atone for them, nor be accepted, while they went on in disobedience. See with what contempt he here speaks of their ceremonial service (Jer. 7:21). ?Put your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices; go on in them as long as you please; add one sort of sacrifice to another; turn your burnt-offerings (which were to be wholly burnt to the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29-34

Here is, I. A loud call to weeping and mourning. Jerusalem, that had been a joyous city, the joy of the whole earth, must now take up a lamentation on high places (Jer. 7:29), the high places where they had served their idols; there must they now bemoan their misery. In token both of sorrow and slavery, Jerusalem must now cut off her hair and cast it away; the word is peculiar to the hair of the Nazarites, which was the badge and token of their dedication to God, and it is called their crown.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7

INTRODUCTION TO JEREMIAH 7 In this chapter the Lord, by the prophet, calls the people of the Jews to repentance and reformation; reproves them for their vain confidence; and threatens them with destruction for their many sins, and particularly idolatry. The preface to all this is in Jeremiah 7:1 , the exhortation to amendment, encouraged to by a promise that they should dwell in the land, is in Jeremiah 7:3 , but this was not to be expected on account of the temple, and temple service;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1

The word that came to Jeremiah ,.... The Word of prophecy, as the Targum: from the Lord, saying ; this begins a new prophecy. This verse, and the beginning of the next, are wanting in the Septuagint version. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:2

Stand in the gate of the Lord's house ,.... That is, of the temple, and the court of it. This gate, as Kimchi says, was the eastern gate, which was the principal gate of all; see Jeremiah 26:2 , and proclaim there this word, and say ; with a loud voice, as follows: hear ye the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah ; the inhabitants of the several parts of Judea, which came to the temple to worship; very probably it was a feast day, as Calvin conjectures; either the passover, or... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:3

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ,.... The Lord of armies above and below in general, and the God of Israel in particular; wherefore they ought to hearken to what he was about to say, and to be obedient to him: amend your ways and your doings ; or, "make them good" F12 היטיבו דרכיכם "bonas facite vias vestras", V. L. Munster, Pagninus, Montanus; "efficite", &c.; Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; which shows that they were bad, and were not agreeable to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:4

Trust ye not in lying words ,.... In the words of the lying prophets, as the Targum; and to the same purpose is the Arabic version, "do not trust in lying words, for the false prophets do not profit you in anything;' the things in which they trusted, and in which the false prophets taught them to place their confidence, were their coming up to the temple at certain times for religious exercises, and their attendance on temple service and worship, offering of sacrifices, and the like. The... read more

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