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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 7:34

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem ,.... Signifying that the devastation should not only be in and about Jerusalem, but should reach all over the land of Judea; since in all cities, towns, and villages, would cease the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness ; upon any account whatever; and, instead of that, mourning, weeping, and lamentation: the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride ; no marrying, and giving in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:34

Then will I cause to cease - the voice of mirth - There shall no longer be in Jerusalem any cause of joy; they shall neither marry nor be given in marriage, for the land shall be totally desolated. Such horrible sins required such a horrible punishment. And they must be horrible, when they move God to destroy the work of his own hands. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:34

Verse 34 He still continues the same subject; for he denounces on the Jews the punishment which they had deserved. He more fully expresses what he mentioned in the last verse respecting the shameful and dreadful barbarity that would follow the slaughter; for the whole country would not only be harassed by the enemy, but wholly laid waste: for when sounds of joy and gladness cease, all places are filled with lamentations; and when no marriages are celebrated, it is a sign of devastation. But by... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-34

The relations of righteousness and religion. This chapter, as indeed so much other of Jeremiah's prophecies, teaches not a little Concerning this great theme. In this chapter we note how it shows— I. THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE PRINCIPAL THING . 1. It is God's solemn demand (verse 2). 2. It is God's perpetual demand. See the whole chapter, the whole prophecy. "Amend your ways and your doings" (verse 3) is its constant appeal. 3. At first it was his only... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:29-34

Tophet, the greatest of all abominations; the beginning of the Divine retribution. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 7:34

The land shall be desolate ; rather, shall become a waste . The curse denounced upon the disobedient people in Le 26:31, 33 (for another parallel between this chapter and Leviticus 26:1-46 ; see Leviticus 26:23 ). In both passages the word for "waste" is khorbah , which, as Dr. Payne Smith remarks, is "used only of places which, having once been inhabited, have then fallen into ruin." Hebrew is rich in synonyms for the idea of "desolation." read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 7:34

Silence and desolation are to settle upon the whole land. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 7:32-34

Jeremiah 7:32-34. It shall be no more called Tophet, but The valley of Slaughter King Josiah first of all defiled this place, as the text speaks, 2 Kings 23:10; that is, polluted it by burying dead bodies in it, by casting filth into it, and scattering there the dust and ashes of the idols which he had broken to pieces and burned. And afterward, when great numbers died in the siege of Jerusalem, and the famine that followed upon it, it became a common burying-place of the Jews: see... read more

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