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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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:21

Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh - I will receive neither sacrifice nor oblation from you; therefore you may take the beasts intended for sacrifice, and slay and eat them for your common nourishment. See on Jeremiah 7:29 ; (note). read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:23

This thing commanded I them - Obey my voice - It was not sacrifices and oblations which I required of your fathers in the wilderness, but obedience; it was to walk in that way of righteousness which I have commanded; then I should have acknowledged them for my people, and I should have been their God, and then it would have been well with them. But to my commands, They hearkened not - paid no regard to my word. They inclined not the ear - showed no disposition to attend to my counsels. ... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 7:21

Verse 21 The Prophet here taunts the Jews for being so sedulous in their attention to sacrifices, while they had no care for piety. Hence he says by way of ridicule, “Offer your sacrifices, and accumulate burnt-offerings and victims, and eat flesh.” The last clause proves that God regarded as nothing their sacrifices, and that nothing was acceptable to him, though the Jews spent much money and spared no labors. God then shews that all these things were nothing to him; eat flesh, he says, which... read more

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