Jeremiah 17:5-27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:12

A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. The temple, which was a sanctified place, where the holy God dwelt, his holy worship was observed, and his holy people met together. Here, from the beginning of its erection, from the time of its dedication, the Lord took up his residence; the glory of the Lord filled the house; he set up his throne in it, a high and glorious one; he dwelt between the cherubim, over the mercy seat, typical of the throne of grace. Kimchi... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:13

O Lord, the Hope of Israel ,.... Of all true Israelites; such as are regenerate persons, and true believers in him; Christ is the author and giver of that hope that is in them; the door of it unto them; the object on which it is exercised; the ground and foundation of it, or what gives encouragement to it; and the person they are hoping for; Old Testament saints hoped, waited for, and expected his first coming; and New Testament saints are hoping for his second coming, and to be for ever... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:14

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed ,.... These are the words of the prophet, sensible of his own sins and backslidings, and of the part which he himself had in these corrupt and declining times; and being conscious of his own impotency to cure himself; and being fully satisfied of the power of the Lord to heal him; and being well assured, if he was healed by him, he should be thoroughly and effectually healed; therefore he applies unto him. Sins are diseases; healing them is the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:15

Behold, they say unto me ,.... Or, "they are saying unto me" F25 הנה המה אמרים אלי "ecce illi sunt dicentes ad me", Schmidt. , continually; these were their daily flouts and jeers: Where is the word of the Lord ? that thou hast so often talked of? thou hast for a long time threatened us with a siege, and famine, pestilence, and the sword, and captivity, but none of these come to pass; where is the accomplishment of them? thou hast pretended to have the word of the Lord... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:16

As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee ,.... Though he had met with so much ill usage, and was hated by the people for bringing such messages to them, and was jeered and scoffed at because his prophecies were not accomplished; yet he had not been hasty, and solicitous, and importunate with the Lord to dismiss him from his service; but was willing to continue in his office as a pastor or prophet, and to follow the Lord fully, and faithfully perform the work he had... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:17

Be not a terror unto me ,.... By deserting him, and leaving him in the hands of his enemies; or by denying him supports under their reproaches and persecution; or by withdrawing his gracious presence from him, than which nothing is more terrible to a good man; or by withholding the comfortable influences of his Spirit; or by suffering terrors to be injected into him from any quarter; and more is meant than is expressed; namely, that God would be a comforter of him, and bear him up under all... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:18

Let them be confounded that persecute me ,.... With words with reproaches, with scoffs and jeers, saying, "where is the word of the Lord?" Jeremiah 17:14 ; let such be ashamed that scoffingly put such a question, by seeing the accomplishment of it: but let not me be confounded ; who have delivered it out as the word of the Lord, that should be surely fulfilled; let not me be brought to shame by the failure of it and be reckoned as a false prophet: let them be dismayed ; terrified... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:19

Thus said the Lord unto me ,.... Here begins a new sermon or discourse, concerning the sanctification of the sabbath, and a very proper place to begin a new chapter: Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people ; where there were great numbers of people passing and repassing; and whither the people resorted upon one account or another; or where they dwelt. Some particular gate of the city of Jerusalem seems to be meant; and not the gate of the temple, as Abarbinel. Some think... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:20

And say unto them, hear ye the word of the Lord ,.... Concerning the sanctification of the sabbath; for this was not of human, but of divine institution: ye kings of Judah ; which must be understood either, as Kimchi thinks, of the then present king and his sons, so called because they would reign after him; for, there was but one king at a time; and who, perhaps, at this time, was Josiah: or else the king and his nobles, the princes of the land, are meant: and all Judah and all the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 17:21

Thus saith the Lord, take heed to yourselves ,.... That ye sin not against the Lord, by breaking the sabbath, and so bring wrath and ruin upon yourselves: or "to your souls" F1 בנפשותיכם "in animabus vestris", Calvin, Montanus, Schmidt. ; to the inward frame of them, that they be in disposition for the work of that day; and that they be wholly engaged therein, even all the powers and faculties of them; and that they be not taken up in thoughts and cares about other things: and... read more

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