Jeremiah 7:1-34

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:28

This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God; spoke in a way of contempt: q.d. A nation more than heathenish; though they profess themselves a peculiar people to me, yet to be numbered among the Gentiles. Nor receiveth correction, i.e. answer not the ends of correction, viz. to be instructed, Jeremiah 5:3, and submit their necks to the yoke, which laid the foundation of all their rebellion. Truth is perished, and is off from their mouth; there is no trusting or believing... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off thine hair; it was a usual token of sorrow among the Jews to cut off the hair, Job 1:20; Isaiah 15:2; Micah 1:16. But here he speaketh either, 1. To Jeremiah; for O Jerusalem is not in the text; or, 2. To the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and so speaks to them as a woman, whose hair is for an ornament, 1 Corinthians 11:15. Therefore this must needs signify a higher degree of sorrow. Cutting the hair among the ancients did signify, 1. Mourning. 2. Bondage. For the cutting off the hair in... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:30

The children of Judah; either Judah’s posterity, Joshua 14:6, or Judah’s inhabitants, which are often called their children; so Jeremiah 2:16. In my sight, i.e. though they will not see it, yet I see it, and they shall know that it is in my sight, i.e. that it displeaseth me. They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name: here he instanceth in one species of their abominations for all the rest, whereby it appears they were grown to a great height of impiety. It was... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:31

High places of Tophet; See Poole "Isaiah 30:33". It comes from Toph, that signifies a drum, because they did beat drums to hinder the noise of their children’s screeches, when they burnt them in sacrifice upon the altars, called here, high places, to Moloch, which is also called Melchom. Which is in the valley of the son on Hinnom: Tophet was situate in a pleasant valley near Jerusalem, a place in the possession of the children of one Hinnom, Joshua 15:8, watered by the river of Siloe. To burn... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:32

It shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom: they were called so after this, and are known by those names to this day; but the meaning is, they shall acquire a name from another occasion, that shall suit them as well, viz. for the great slaughter that shall be made there, or rather thereabouts, in and about Jerusalem, and therefore called the valley of slaughter, from the effect of slaughter; as Judas’s field was called Aceldama, Acts 1:19, being a place for burying... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:33

The birds and beasts of prey shall feed on them, being exposed to open view for want of interment, Jeremiah 19:7, and none shall fray them away; ( a piece of humanity that even nature itself teacheth;) either by reason of the enemy’s presence, for fear of whom they durst not; or rather, because there will be none left to do it: and this is reckoned among the curses, Deuteronomy 28:26. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 7:34

All kind and degrees of mirth shall cease, Revelation 18:23, all places shall be filled with lamentations and woe; their singing shall be turned into sighing; they shall lay aside all things that are for the comfort of Human society, which is to be understood in this expression. For the land shall be desolate; there shall be such an utter devastation, that there shall be neither season nor place for these things, Isaiah 64:10,Isaiah 64:11; Jeremiah 25:10; where marrying shall cease, without... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Jeremiah 7:1-34

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. 1. Chronology of the chapter. Keil regards chaps. 7 to 10 as later addresses, delivered during Josiah’s reign. Bagster places an interval of merely two years between chaps. 6 and 7, dating this B.C. 610, two years before Josiah’s death. The A.V. places it ten years after Jehoiakim became king. But Dahler, Graf, Naeg., Lange, Hend., and Dr. Payne Smith identify this chapter with chap. 26. (cf. the corresponding verses, Jeremiah 7:2; Jeremiah 7:13-14, with Jeremiah... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 7:9-10

Jeremiah 7:9-10 There is a deal of vague floating excuse in our minds, which practically amounts to making what we call Fate a scapegoat for our sins. There are two forms which such an attempt at excuse for wrong-doing may assume: (1) "We are delivered to do all these abominations "by certain inflexible laws, over which we can exercise no control, say some; (2) "We are delivered to do all these abominations" by the force of our nature, which it is not in our power to alter, say others. Such are... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Jeremiah 7:1

The word that came The general character of the message in the temple gate is, like the first and second messages, one of rebuke, warning, and exhortation, but this message is addressed more to such in Judah as still maintaining outwardly the worship of Jehovah; it is a message to religious Judah, e.g. Jeremiah 7:2; Jeremiah 7:9; Jeremiah 7:10; Jeremiah 9:10; Jeremiah 9:11. read more

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