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Green's Literal Translation

Jeremiah 7:1

The Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Condescension of God;   Prophecy;   Prophets;   Scofield Reference Index - Jeremiah;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Apocalyptic literature;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Lamentations, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Election;   Hope;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Justice;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Habakkuk;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Self-Examination;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Josiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord:
Hebrew Names Version
The word that came to Yirmeyahu from the LORD, saying,
King James Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying,
English Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord :
New American Standard Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
New Century Version
This is the word that the Lord spoke to Jeremiah:
Amplified Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
World English Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The woordes that came to Ieremiah from the Lorde, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Contemporary English Version
The Lord told me to stand by the gate of the temple and to tell the people who were going in that the Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, had said: Pay attention, people of Judah! Change your ways and start living right, then I will let you keep on living in your own country.
Complete Jewish Bible
This word came to Yirmeyahu from Adonai :
Darby Translation
The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
This is the Lord 's message to Jeremiah:
George Lamsa Translation
THE word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Good News Translation
The Lord sent me to the gate of the Temple where the people of Judah went in to worship. He told me to stand there and announce what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had to say to them: "Change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and I will let you go on living here.
Lexham English Bible
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
These are the wordes, that God spake vnto Ieremy:
American Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
Bible in Basic English
The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying:
King James Version (1611)
The word that came to Ieremiah from the Lord, saying,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
These are the wordes that God spake vnto Ieremie, saying:
English Revised Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The word that was maad of the Lord to Jeremye,
Update Bible Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
New English Translation
The Lord said to Jeremiah:
New King James Version
Jeremiah 26:4-6)">[xr] The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
New Living Translation
The Lord gave another message to Jeremiah. He said,
New Life Bible
This word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
New Revised Standard
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord :
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The word that came unto Jeremiah, from Yahweh saying: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
The word that came to Jeremias from the Lord, saying:
Revised Standard Version
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
Young's Literal Translation
The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,
THE MESSAGE
The Message from God to Jeremiah: "Stand in the gate of God 's Temple and preach this Message. "Say, ‘Listen, all you people of Judah who come through these gates to worship God. God -of-the-Angel-Armies, Israel's God, has this to say to you:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 The Word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the house of Jehovah and call out there this Word, and say, Hear the Word of Jehovah all Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah. 3 So says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will let you dwell in this place. 4 Do not trust yourself to lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah! The temple of Jehovah! This is the temple of Jehovah! 5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor; 6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, and the widow; and do not pour out innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your evil; 7 then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from forever and to forever. 8 Behold, you trust for yourself on lying words without being of use. 9 Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods whom you do not know? 10 And will you then come and stand before Me in this house on which My name is called, and say, We are delivered in order to do all those detestable things.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 17:2 - General Jeremiah 2:1 - the word

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 7:1
And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 7:4
For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights and will wipe away every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:5
And Noah did according to all that Jehovah commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters was on the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:8
And they went in to Noah into the ark, male and female of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of fowl, and of every thing that creeps on the earth,
Genesis 7:9
two by two, as God had commanded Noah, they went into the ark, male and female.
Genesis 7:10
And it was after the seven days, the waters of the flood came into being on the earth.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the great deep were risen, and the windows of the heavens were opened up.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The word that came to Jeremiah,.... The Word of prophecy, as the Targum:

from the Lord, saying; this begins a new prophecy. This verse, and the beginning of the next, are wanting in the Septuagint version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In Jer. 7–10 he addresses the people as they flocked into Jerusalem from the country, to attend the solemn services in the temple upon a fastday. Jehoiakim Jeremiah 26:0 had just ascended the throne, and was so incensed at this sermon that he would have put Jeremiah to death but for the influence of Ahikam. With the accession of Jehoiakim all hope of averting the ruin of the country had passed away. He represented the reverse of his father’s policy, and belonged to that faction, who placed their sole hope of deliverance in a close alliance with Pharaoh-Necho. As this party rejected the distinctive principles of the theocracy, and the king was personally an irreligious man, the maintenance of the worship of Yahweh was no longer an object of the public care. At this time upon a public fast-day, appointed probably because of the calamities under which the nation was laboring, Jeremiah was commanded by Yahweh to stand at the gate of the temple, and address to the people as they entered words of solemn warning. The whole sermon divides itself into three parts;

In Jer. 7–10 he addresses the people as they flocked into Jerusalem from the country, to attend the solemn services in the temple upon a fastday. Jehoiakim Jeremiah 26:0 had just ascended the throne, and was so incensed at this sermon that he would have put Jeremiah to death but for the influence of Ahikam. With the accession of Jehoiakim all hope of averting the ruin of the country had passed away. He represented the reverse of his father’s policy, and belonged to that faction, who placed their sole hope of deliverance in a close alliance with Pharaoh-Necho. As this party rejected the distinctive principles of the theocracy, and the king was personally an irreligious man, the maintenance of the worship of Yahweh was no longer an object of the public care. At this time upon a public fast-day, appointed probably because of the calamities under which the nation was laboring, Jeremiah was commanded by Yahweh to stand at the gate of the temple, and address to the people as they entered words of solemn warning. The whole sermon divides itself into three parts;

(1) It points out the folly of the superstitious confidence placed by the people in the temple, while they neglect the sole sure foundation of a nation’s hope. A sanctuary long polluted by immorality must inevitably be destroyed Jeremiah 7:2-3.

(2) complaints follow of a more general character, in which the growing wickedness of the nation and especially of the leaders is pointed out Jeremiah 8:4-24.

(3) lastly the prophet shows the possibility of averting the evils impending upon the nation Jeremiah 9:25-25.

Jeremiah 10:1-2. The temple had several entrances 2 Chronicles 4:9; and the gate or door here mentioned is probably that of the inner court, where Baruch read Jeremiah’s scroll Jeremiah 36:10. The prophet stood in the doorway, and addressed the people assembled in the outer court.

All ye of Judah - Better, literally all Judah (compare Jeremiah 26:2).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VII

Here begins another section of prophecy, ending with the ninth

chapter. It opens with exhorting to amendment of life, without

which the confidence of the Jews in their temple is declared

vain, 1-11.

God bids them take warning from the fate of their brethren the

Israelites, who had been carried away captive on account of

their sins without any regard to that sacred place, (Shiloh,)

where the ark of God once resided, 12-15.

The iniquities of Judah are so great in the sight of God that

the prophet is commanded not to intercede for the people, 16;

the more especially as they persisted in provoking God by their

idolatrous practices, 17-20.

The Jewish sacrifices, if not accompanied with obedience to the

moral law, are of no avail, 21-24.

Notwithstanding the numerous messages of mercy from the time of

the exodus, the people revolted more and more; and have added

to their other sins this horrible evil, the setting up of their

abominations in the temple of Jehovah; or, in other words, they

have encumbered the Mosaic economy, which shadowed forth the

glorious truths of Christianity, with a heterogeneous admixture

of the idolatrous, impure, and cruel rites of heathenism;

consequently, the whole land shall be utterly desolated, 25-34.

NOTES ON CHAP. VII

Verse Jeremiah 7:1. The word that came to Jeremiah — This prophecy is supposed to have been delivered in the first year of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, who, far from following the example of his pious father, restored idolatry, maintained bad priests and worse prophets, and filled Jerusalem with abominations of all kinds.


 
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