Westminster Annotations, Jeremiah · Chapter 7
CHAP. VII.
Vers. 1. THe word that came to Jeremiah] See Chap. 1. 2. 3.
V. 2. Stand in the gate] Or, in the porch, or, at the entry, Chap. 26. 2.
V. 3. amend your wayes] Heb. make good. Vers. 5. Chap. 18. 11. & 26. 13.
V. 4. Trust ye not in lying words] Heb. words of falshood. Chap. 14. 14. & 23. 26. See Chap. 28. 15. & 29. 31. Beleeve not your salfe-prophets their groundlesse promises: nor trust to the Temple and externall services therein performed; as if these things could secure you, Mic. 3. 11. 1 Cor. 10. 1-5.
the temple of the LORD are these] These buildings are Gods Temple; his house, which he will hold and uphold for ever. Psal. 132. 14. 2 Chron. 33. 7, 8.
V. 5. if ye throughly amend your wayes] Heb. making good make good. Vers. 3.
if you throughly execute judgement] Heb. doing do judgement, or, right. Chap. 22. 4.
between a man and his neighbour] Or, between man and man. Chap. 22. 8.
V. 7. Then will I cause you to dwell in this place] Upon these conditions I will continue with you, and I will continue you in this place: I will be a faithfull God to you, if you be a loyall people to me. Deut. 4. 40. & 26. 16-19. Psal. 81. 13-16. and 132. 12.
V. 8. ye trust in lying words] Vers. 4.
that cannot profit] Heb. not to profit. Isai. 44. 10.
V. 9. swear falsely] Heb. to falshood. Chap. 5. 2.
walk after other gods] Judg. 5. 8.
whom ye know not] Have had no such proof of, as ye have had of me. Isa. 43. 10.
V. 10. stand before me in this house] Ezek. 23. 39.
which is called by my name] Heb. whereupon my name is called. Vers. 11. 14. 30. Chap. 32. 34.
We are delivered to do all these abominations] Or, shall be delivered, &c. That we may return to the committing of these things again freely, as formerly we have done. Ezek. 23. 38, 39. Or, notwithstanding that we have done them, yet we shall do well enough, and be safe enough for all that. Mal. 3. 15.
V. 11. In this house which is called by my name] Isa. 56. 7.
become a den of robbers] Will ye make mine house, as an hole, or a den, for theeves and robbers to shrowd and shelter themselves in? Matth. 21. 13. Mark 11. 17. Luke 19. 46.
V. 12. go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh] If ye think that my Temple will secure you, go to Shiloh, and see how mine Ark and Tabernacle secured those, with whom they formerly so long abode.
where I set my name at the first] Where I first placed those solemn signes and pledges of my speciall residence among you. Deut. 12. 11. Josh. 18. 1. 1 Sam. 1. 3, 7. & 4. 3, 4.
see what I did to it] How I suffered them to be discomfited by the enemy, my Priests to be slain, and mine Ark to be taken; which, though it were brought back, yet never returned again to Shilon. 1 Sam. 4. 10, 11. Psal. 59-67. Chap. 26. 6.
V. 13. rising up early] I have warned you by my Prophets, from time to time without intermission. Isai. 65. 2. Chap. 11. 7. & 35. 15. Vers. 25. See Chap. 25. 3.
I called you, but ye answered not] Prov. 1. 24. Isai. 65. 12. and 66. 4.
V. 14. this house which is called by my name] Vers. 10. 11.
as I have done to Shilob] 1 Sam. 4. 10. 11. Psal. 78. 60. & 132. 6. Chap. 26. 6.
V. 15. I will cast you out of my sight] Send you away into captivitie; as I have done the ten tribes: 2 King. 17. 6. whereof Ephraim was a chief partie. Isa. 7. 2.
V. 16. Therefore] Heb. And: as Chap. 1. 17.
pray not thou for this people] To assure them, that he was fully resolved, to bring evill upon them, he forbiddeth the Prophet to solicite him in their behalf. Exod. 32. 10. Chap. 11. 14. and 14. 11.
for I will not hear thee] Intimating, that the prayers even of the godly cannot avail those, that will go on obstinately in their wicked courses, rejecting all means of mercy offered them. 1 Sam. 15. 35. Chap. 15. 1.
V. 18. The children gather wood, &c.] They train up their children in the practise of idolatry: men, women and children are all imployed in it: Chap. 44. 19. (for the word signifying the Sunne in Hebrew, is as well foeminine as masculine.)
to make cakes to the queen of heaven] Or, frame, or, workmanship of heaven. Chap. 44. 17. Either to the Sunne, or to the Moon; or to the whole host of heaven. Deut. 4. 19. 2 King. 23. 5. 2 Chr. 33. 5. Chap. 8. 2. Ezek. 8. 16.
that they may provoke me to anger] Not, that they did it purposely for that end; but that this therefrom must needs ensue. Chap. 27. 10.
V. 19. Do they provoke me to anger, do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces] Or, Is it against me, that they provoke me to wrath? Am I any whit the worse for it? is it not rather against themselves? doth it not tend rather to their owne ruine? (as Isai. 57. 11.) Job 35. 6, 8. Chap. 11. 17. Vers. 6. 1 Cor. 10. 22.
upon man and upon beast, &c.] I will bring an utter desolation upon it. Chap. 4. 25. & 12. 4. Zeph. 1. 3.
it shall burn, &c.] Isai. 34. 9, 10. Chap. 4. 4.
V. 21. Put your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices] Dispose of them as ye please; and eat the flesh of them your selves: for I neither desire, require, nor regard them. Isai. 1. 11. & 29. 1. Chap. 6. 20. Amos 5. 21.
V. 22. I spake not unto your fathers concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices] Heb. concerning the matter of. Chap. 52. 34. I required of them, not so much sacrifices, as obedience: 1 Sam. 15. 22. Hos. 6. 6. Mark 12. 33. and the sacrifices, to be testimonies of their allegeance to me; and seals of the covenant between me and them then made. Exod. 24. 8. Psa. 50. 5. Chap. 34. 18.
V. 23. this thing commanded I them] Chap. 11. 4.
Obey my voice] Deut. 6. 3. Heb. hear. Vers. 24.
I will be your God, and ye shall be my people] Exod. 19. 5. Levit. 26. 12.
walk ye in all the wayes that I have commanded you, &c.] Deut. 5. 33.
V. 24. they hearkned not] Deut 29. 19. Psal. 81. 12. Chap. 3. 17. & 9. 13. & 11. 8.
in the imagination] Or, stubbornnesse,
went backward] Heb. were backward. Were like a restie jade; that maketh more backward, the more the rider putteth him onward. Isai. 1. 4, 5. Chap. 15. 6.
V. 25. I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets] 2 Chron. 36. 15.
V. 26. they hearkned not] Vers. 13. 24.
hardued their neck] Chap. 16. 12. & 17. 23. & 19. 15.
did worse then their fathers] Went on from evill to worse: Chap. 9. 3. so far were they from amendment.
27. Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them, but they will not hearken] Or, And when thou shalt speak, &c. yet they will not hearken unto thee: as Chap. 2. 35. God will have him speak, admonish, warn, and do his dutie, though they refuse to hear; to make them the more inexcusable. Ezek. 2. 5, 7. & 3. 7, 12.
thou shalt also call unto them, but they will not answer thee] Or, when thou shalt call, they will not answer thee.
V. 28. But] Or, Therefore: as Chap. 6. 11.
nor receiveth correction] Or, instruction. Chap. 6. 8.
V. 29. Cut off thine hair] In token of mourning. Job 1. 20. Isai. 15. 2. Mic. 1. 16.
take up a lamentation on high places] Chap. 3. 21.
forsaken the generation of his wrath] This whole race; against whom he is incensed for their sinnes. Mal. 1. 5.
V. 30. they have set their abominations, &c.] 2 King. 21. 4-7. 2 Chron. 36. 14. Chap. 32. 34.
in the house which is called by my name] Vers. 10. 11.
V. 31. built the high places] 2 King. 23. 10. Chap. 19. 5.
Tophet] Of this this see Isai. 30. 33.
which I commanded them not] But expressely forbad; Levit. 18. 21. & 20. 3 Deut. 18. 10.
neither came it into my heart]] Heb. came it upon my heart. Chap. 3. 16.
V. 32. the dayes come, &c.] Chap. 19. 6.
V. 33. the carcasses of this people] Deut. 28. 26. Chap. 16. 4. & 34. 20.
shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, &c.] For want of persons to bury them, and place convenient to bury them in. Psalm 79. 2, 3.
none shall fray them away] Deut 28. 26. Isai. 17. 2.
V. 34. Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Jadah, &c.] Isai. 24. 7, 8. Chap. 16. 9. & 25. 10. & 33. 11. Ezek. 26. 13. Hos. 2. 11. Rev. 18. 23.
the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride] Such marriage songs and melodious musick, as is usuall at solemn weddings. Psal. 78. 63.