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<p id="Chapter7" align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>CHAPTER 7
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<p id="Jer7_1"><a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,'1-34');">Jer 7:1-34</a>. THE SEVENTH THROUGH NINTH CHAPTERS. DELIVERED IN THE BEGINNING OF JEHOIAKIM'S REIGN, ON THE OCCASION OF SOME PUBLIC FESTIVAL.
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<p>The prophet stood at the gate of the temple in order that the multitudes from the country might hear him. His life was threatened, it appears from <a onclick="return mV('Jer',26,'1-9');">Jer 26:1-9</a>, for this prophecy, denouncing the fate of Shiloh as about to befall the temple at Jerusalem. The prophecy given in detail here is summarily referred to there. After Josiah's death the nation relapsed into idolatry through Jehoiakim's bad influence; the worship of Jehovah was, however, combined with it (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,4, 10);">Jer 7:4, 10</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_2"><b>2. the gate</b>—that is, the gate of the court of Israel within that of the women. Those whom Jeremiah addresses came through the gate leading into the court of the women, and the gate leading into the outer court, or court of the Gentiles ("these gates").
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<p id="Jer7_3"><b>3. cause you to dwell</b>—permit you still to dwell (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',18,11);">Jer 18:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',26,13);">26:13</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_4"><b>4.</b> The Jews falsely thought that because their temple had been chosen by Jehovah as His peculiar dwelling, it could never be destroyed. Men think that ceremonial observances will supersede the need of holiness (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',48,2);">Isa 48:2</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mic',3,11);">Mic 3:11</a>). The triple repetition of "the temple of Jehovah" expresses the intense confidence of the Jews (see <a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,29);">Jer 22:29</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',6,3);">Isa 6:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>these</b>—the temple buildings which the prophet points to with his finger (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,2);">Jer 7:2</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_5"><b>5. For</b>—"But" [MAURER].
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<br><br><b>judgment</b>—justice (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',22,3);">Jer 22:3</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_6"><b>6. this place</b>—this city and land (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,7);">Jer 7:7</a>).
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<br><br><b>to your hurt</b>—so <a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,19);">Jer 7:19</a>; "to the confusion or their own faces" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',13,10);">Jer 13:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',8,36);">Pro 8:36</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_7"><b>7.</b> The apodosis to the "if...if" (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,5,6);">Jer 7:5-6</a>).
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<br><br><b>to dwell</b>—to continue to dwell.
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<br><br><b>for ever and ever</b>—joined with "to dwell," not with the words "gave to your fathers" (compare <a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,18);">Jer 3:18</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Deu',4,40);">Deu 4:40</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_8"><b>8. that cannot profit</b>—MAURER translates, "so that you profit nothing" (see <a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,4);">Jer 7:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,31);">Jer 5:31</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_9"><b>9, 10.</b> "Will ye steal...<i>and then</i> come and stand before Me?"
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<br><br><b>whom ye know not</b>—Ye have no grounds of "knowing" that <i>they</i> are gods; but I have manifested My Godhead by My law, by benefits conferred, and by miracles. This aggravates their crime [CALVIN] (<a onclick="return mV('Jdg',5,8);">Jdg 5:8</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_10"><b>10. And come</b>—And yet come (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',23,39);">Eze 23:39</a>).
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<br><br><b>We are delivered</b>—namely, from all impending calamities. In spite of the prophet's threats, we have nothing to fear; we have offered our sacrifices, and therefore Jehovah will "deliver" us.
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<br><br><b>to do all these abominations</b>—namely, those enumerated (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,9);">Jer 7:9</a>). These words are not to be connected with "we are delivered," but thus: "Is it <i>with this design</i> that ye come and stand before Me in this house," in order that having offered your worthless sacrifices ye may be taken into My favor and so do all these abominations (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,9);">Jer 7:9</a>) with impunity? [MAURER].
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<p id="Jer7_11"><b>11. den of robbers</b>—Do you regard My temple as being what robbers make their den, namely, an asylum wherein ye may obtain impunity for your abominations (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,10);">Jer 7:10</a>)?
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<br><br><b>seen it</b>—namely, that ye treat My house as if it were a den of thieves. Jehovah implies more than is expressed, "I have seen <i>and will punish</i> it" (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',56,7);">Isa 56:7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Mat',21,13);">Mat 21:13</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_12"><b>12. my place...in Shiloh</b>—God caused His tabernacle to be set up in Shiloh in Joshua's days (<a onclick="return mV('Jos',18,1);">Jos 18:1</a> <a onclick="return mV('Jdg',18,31);">Jdg 18:31</a>). In Eli's time God gave the ark, which had been at Shiloh, into the hands of the Philistines (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',26,6);">Jer 26:6</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Sa',4,10,11);">1Sa 4:10-11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',78,'56-61');">Psa 78:56-61</a>). Shiloh was situated between Beth-el and Shechem in Ephraim.
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<br><br><b>at the first</b>—implying that <i>Shiloh</i> exceeded the Jewish temple in antiquity. But God's favor is not tied down to localities (<a onclick="return mV('Act',7,44);">Act 7:44</a>).
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<br><br><b>my people Israel</b>—Israel was <i>God's</i> people, yet He spared it not when rebellious: neither will He spare Judah, now that it rebels, though heretofore it has been His people.
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<p id="Jer7_13"><b>13. rising...early</b>—implying unwearied earnestness in soliciting them (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,25);">Jer 7:25</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',11,17);">Jer 11:17</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ch',36,15);">2Ch 36:15</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_14"><b>14. I gave</b>—and I therefore can revoke the gift for it is still Mine (<a onclick="return mV('Lev',25,23);">Lev 25:23</a>), now that ye fail in the only object for which it was given, the promotion of My glory.
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<br><br><b>Shiloh</b>—as I ceased to dwell there, transferring My temple to Jerusalem; so I will cease to dwell at Jerusalem.
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<p id="Jer7_15"><b>15. your brethren</b>—children of Abraham, as much as you.
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<br><br><b>whole seed of Ephraim</b>—They were superior to you in numbers and power: they were <i>ten</i> tribes: ye but <i>two.</i> "Ephraim," as the leading tribe, stands for the whole ten tribes (<a onclick="return mV('2Ki',17,23);">2Ki 17:23</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',78,67,68);">Psa 78:67-68</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_16"><b>16.</b> When people are given up to judicial hardness of heart, intercessory prayer for them is unavailing (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',11,14);">Jer 11:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',14,11);">14:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',15,1);">15:1</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',32,10);">Exd 32:10</a>; <a onclick="return mV('1Jo',5,16);">1Jo 5:16</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_17"><b>17.</b> Jehovah leaves it to Jeremiah himself to decide, is there not good reason that prayers should not be heard in behalf of such rebels?
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<p id="Jer7_18"><b>18. children...fathers...women</b>—Not merely isolated individuals practised idolatry; young and old, men and women, and whole families, contributed their joint efforts to promote it. Oh, that there were the same zeal for the worship of God as there is for error (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',44,17,19);">Jer 44:17, 19</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,13);">19:13</a>)!
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<br><br><b>cakes...queen of heaven</b>—Cakes were made of honey, fine flour, etc., in a round flat shape to resemble the disc of <i>the moon,</i> to which they were offered. Others read as <i>Margin,</i> "the frame of heaven," that is, the planets generally; so the <i>Septuagint</i> here; but elsewhere the <i>Septuagint</i> translates, "queen of heaven." The Phoenicians called the moon <i>Ashtoreth</i> or <i>Astarte:</i> the wife of Baal or Moloch, the <i>king</i> of heaven. The male and female pair of deities symbolized the generative powers of nature; hence arose the introduction of prostitution in the worship. The Babylonians worshipped Ashtoreth as Mylitta, that is, generative. Our Monday, or <i>Moon-day,</i> indicates the former prevalence of moon worship (see on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa065.html#Isa65_11">Isa 65:11</a>).
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<br><br><b>that they may provoke me</b>—implying <i>design:</i> in worshipping strange gods they seemed as if <i>purposely</i> to provoke Jehovah.
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<p id="Jer7_19"><b>19.</b> Is it I that they provoke to anger? Is it not <i>themselves?</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',32,16,21);">Deu 32:16, 21</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Job',35,6,8);">Job 35:6, 8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Pro',8,36);">Pro 8:36</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_20"><b>20. beast...trees...ground</b>—Why doth God vent His fury on these? On account of man, for whom these were created, that the sad spectacle may strike terror into him (<a onclick="return mV('Rom',8,'20-22');">Rom 8:20-22</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_21"><b>21. Put...burnt offerings unto...sacrifices...eat flesh</b>—<i>Add</i> the former (which the law required to be <i>wholly</i> burnt) to the latter (which were burnt only <i>in part</i>), and "eat flesh" even off the holocausts or burnt offerings. As far as I am concerned, saith Jehovah, you may do with one and the other alike. I will have neither (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',1,11);">Isa 1:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',8,13);">Hsa 8:13</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Amo',5,21);">Amo 5:21-22</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_22"><b>22.</b> Not contradicting the divine obligation of the legal sacrifices. But, "I did not require sacrifices, unless combined with moral obedience" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',50,8);">Psa 50:8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',41,16,17);">51:16-17</a>). The superior claim of the <i>moral</i> above the <i>positive</i> precepts of the law was marked by the ten commandments having been delivered first, and by the two tables of stone being deposited alone in the ark (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',5,6);">Deu 5:6</a>). The negative in <i>Hebrew</i> often supplies the want of the comparative: not excluding the thing denied, but only implying the prior claim of the thing set in opposition to it (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',6,6);">Hsa 6:6</a>). "I will have mercy, and <i>not</i> sacrifice" (<a onclick="return mV('1Sa',15,22);">1Sa 15:22</a>). Love to God is the supreme <i>end,</i> external observances only <i>means</i> towards that end. "The mere sacrifice was not <i>so much</i> what I commanded, as the sincere submission to My will gives to the sacrifice all its virtue" [MAGEE, <i>Atonement, Note 57</i>].
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<p id="Jer7_23"><b>23.</b> (<a onclick="return mV('Exd',15,26);">Exd 15:26</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Exd',19,5);">19:5</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_24"><b>24. hearkened not</b>—They did not give even a partial hearing to Me (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',81,11,12);">Psa 81:11-12</a>).
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<br><br><b>imagination</b>—rather, as <i>Margin,</i> "the stubbornness"
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<br><br><b>backward,</b> etc.— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',2,27);">Jer 2:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jer',32,33);">32:33</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Hsa',4,16);">Hsa 4:16</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_25"><b>25. rising...early</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,13);">Jer 7:13</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_26"><b>26. hardened...neck</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',31,27);">Deu 31:27</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',48,4);">Isa 48:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Act',7,51);">Act 7:51</a>).
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<br><br><b>worse than their fathers</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,12);">Jer 16:12</a>). In <a onclick="return mV('Jer',7,22);">Jer 7:22</a> He had said, "<i>your</i> fathers"; here He says, "<i>their</i> fathers"; the change to the third person marks growing alienation from them. He no longer addresses <i>themselves,</i> as it would be a waste of words in the case of such hardened rebels.
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<p id="Jer7_27"><b>27. Therefore</b>—rather, "<i>Though</i> thou speak...yet they will not hearken" [MAURER], (<a onclick="return mV('Eze',2,7);">Eze 2:7</a>), a trial to the prophet's faith; though he knew his warnings would be unheeded, still he was to give them in obedience to God.
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<p id="Jer7_28"><b>28. unto them</b>—that is, in reference to them.
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<br><br><b>a nation</b>—The word usually applied to the Gentile <i>nations</i> is here applied to the Jews, as being east off and classed by God among the Gentiles.
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<br><br><b>nor receiveth correction</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',5,3);">Jer 5:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>truth...perished</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',9,3);">Jer 9:3</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_29"><b>29.</b> Jeremiah addresses Jerusalem under the figure of a woman, who, in grief for her lost children, deprives her head of its chief ornament and goes up to the hills to weep (<a onclick="return mV('Jdg',11,37);">Jdg 11:37-38</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',15,2);">Isa 15:2</a>).
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<br><br><b>hair</b>—flowing locks, like those of a Nazarite.
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<br><br><b>high places</b>—The scene of her idolatries is to be the scene of her mourning (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',3,21);">Jer 3:21</a>).
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<br><br><b>generation of his wrath</b>—the generation with which He is wroth. So <a onclick="return mV('Isa',10,6);">Isa 10:6</a>; "the people of My wrath."
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<p id="Jer7_30"><b>30. set their abominations in the house</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',32,34);">Jer 32:34</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',21,4,7);">2Ki 21:4, 7</a>; <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',32,4);">23:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',8,'5-14');">Eze 8:5-14</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_31"><b>31. high places of Tophet</b>—the <i>altars</i> [HORSLEY] of Tophet; erected to Moloch, on the heights along the south of the valley facing Zion.
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<br><br><b>burn...sons</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',106,38);">Psa 106:38</a>).
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<br><br><b>commanded...not</b>—put for, "I forbade expressly" (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',17,3);">Deu 17:3</a> 12:31). See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Jer/Jer002.html#Jer2_23">Jer 2:23</a>; JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Isa/Isa030.html#Isa30_33">Isa 30:33</a>.
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<p id="Jer7_32"><b>32. valley of slaughter</b>—so named because of the great slaughter of the Jews about to take place at Jerusalem: a just retribution of their sin in slaying their children to Moloch in Tophet.
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<br><br><b>no place</b>—no room, namely, to bury in, so many shall be those slain by the Chaldeans (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',19,11);">Jer 19:11</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',6,5);">Eze 6:5</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_33"><b>33. fray</b>—<i>scare</i> or <i>frighten</i> (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',28,26);">Deu 28:26</a>). Typical of the last great battle between the Lord's host and the apostasy (<a onclick="return mV('Rev',19,17,18,21);">Rev 19:17-18, 21</a>).
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<p id="Jer7_34"><b>34.</b> Referring to the joyous songs and music with which the bride and bridegroom were escorted in the procession to the home of the latter from that of the former; a custom still prevalent in the East (<a onclick="return mV('Jer',16,9);">Jer 16:9</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Isa',24,7,8);">Isa 24:7-8</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Rev',18,23);">Rev 18:23</a>).
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