Jeremiah 7:21-34 ASV

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 7:21

Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel ,.... The Lord of armies above and below, and the covenant God of the people of Israel; who were bound to serve him, not only by the laws of creation, and the bounties of Providence, but were under obligation so to do by the distinguishing blessings of his goodness bestowed upon them; wherefore their idolatry, and other sins committed against him, were the more heinous and aggravated: put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:22

For I spake not unto your fathers ,.... Meaning not Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, but Moses, Aaron, and others, who were living at the time of the bringing of the children of Israel out of Egypt, as appears by what follows: nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings, or sacrifices ; these are not in the decalogue or ten commands; these are no part of that law or covenant, but are an appendage or addition to it; and though they are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing commanded I them, saying ,.... This was the sum and substance of what was then commanded, even obedience to the moral law; this was the main and principal thing enjoined, and to which the promise was annexed: obey my voice : the word of the Lord, his commands, the precepts of the decalogue; obedience to which was preferable to the sacrifices of the ceremonial law; see 1 Samuel 15:22 , wherefore it follows: and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people ; the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:24

But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear ,.... Neither to the law that was given them, nor to the promises that were made unto them, this was the case of the Jewish fathers, and also of their posterity, to whom belonged the law, and the promises, and the service of God: but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart ; what their evil heart imagined, advised and directed to, that they attended to, walked in, and pursued after. The heart of man is evil; it is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:25

Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day ,.... That is, in all generations; ever since their first coming out of Egypt, they had been disobedient to the commands of God, and had walked after their own hearts' lusts, and had gone backward, and not forward; for this is not to be connected with what follows: I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early, and sending them ; which should be rendered, "although I have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:26

Yet they hearkened not unto me ,.... Speaking by the prophets: nor inclined their ear ; to what was said to them; would not listen to it, and much less obey what was commanded them: but hardened their neck ; and so became stiffnecked, and would not submit to bear the yoke of the law: they did worse than their fathers ; every generation grew more and more wicked, and went on to be so until the measure of their iniquity was filled up; hence it follows: read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:27

Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them ,.... Before mentioned in the chapter; exhortations to duty, dehortations from sin, promises and threatenings: but they will not hearken to thee : so as to reform from their evil ways, and do the will of God; they will neither be allured by promises, nor awed by menaces: thou shalt also call unto them ; with a loud voice, showing great vehemency and earnestness, being concerned for their good, and knowing the danger they were in: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:28

But thou shalt say unto them ,.... Having found by experience, after long speaking and calling to them, that they are a disobedient and incorrigible people: this is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God ; who, though the Lord is their God, and has chosen and avouched them to be his special people, whom he has distinguished by special favours; yet what he says by his prophets they pay no regard unto, and are no better than the Gentiles, which know not God: nor... read more

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

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:28

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