Jeremiah 23:7-8 - Exposition

This is another of Jeremiah's repetitions (see Jeremiah 16:14 , Jeremiah 16:15 ). Either the Septuagint translator or the copyist of the Hebrew manuscript which he used appears to have thought that the passage might, therefore, be dispensed with. In the Septuagint it is placed at the end of the chapter (being possibly supplied from another Hebrew manuscript), and the form given in this version to the close of verse 6 ( ἰωσεδὲκ ἐν τοῖς προφηταῖς , combining the opening words of verse 9) shows that verse 9 followed immediately upon verse 6 in the Hebrew manuscript.