Jeremiah 7

Jeremiah 7:1

THe word that came to Jeremiah] See Chap. 1. 2. 3.

Jeremiah 7:2

Stand in the gate] Or, in the porch, or, at the entry, Chap. 26. 2.

Jeremiah 7:3

amend your wayes] Heb. make good. Vers. 5. Chap. 18. 11. & 26. 13.

Jeremiah 7:4

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. Psalms 132:14. 2 Chronicles 33:7-8.

Jeremiah 7:5

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.

Jeremiah 7:7

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. Deuteronomy 4:40. & 26. 16-19. Psal. 81. 13-16. and 132. 12.

Jeremiah 7:8

ye trust in lying words] Vers. 4.

that cannot profit] Heb. not to profit. Isaiah 44:10.

Jeremiah 7:9

swear falsely] Heb. to falshood. Chap. 5. 2.

walk after other gods] Judges 5:8.

whom ye know not] Have had no such proof of, as ye have had of me. Isaiah 43:10.

Jeremiah 7:10

stand before me in this house] Ezekiel 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. Ezekiel 23:38-39. Or, notwithstanding that we have done them, yet we shall do well enough, and be safe enough for all that. Malachi 3:15.

Jeremiah 7:11

In this house which is called by my name] Isaiah 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? Matthew 21:13. Mark 11:17. Luke 19:46.

Jeremiah 7:12

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. Deuteronomy 12:11. Joshua 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 Samuel 4:10-11. Psal. 59-67. Chap. 26. 6.

Jeremiah 7:13

rising up early] I have warned you by my Prophets, from time to time without intermission. Isaiah 65:2. Chap. 11. 7. & 35. 15. Vers. 25. See Chap. 25. 3.

I called you, but ye answered not] Proverbs 1:24. Isaiah 65:12. and Isaiah 66:4.

Jeremiah 7:14

this house which is called by my name] Vers. 10. 11.

as I have done to Shilob] 1 Samuel 4:10. 11. Psalms 78:60. & Psalms 132:6. Chap. 26. 6.

Jeremiah 7:15

I will cast you out of my sight] Send you away into captivitie; as I have done the ten tribes: 2 Kings 17:6. whereof Ephraim was a chief partie. Isaiah 7:2.

Jeremiah 7:16

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. Exodus 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 Samuel 15:35. Chap. 15. 1.

Jeremiah 7:18

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. Deuteronomy 4:19. 2 Kings 23:5. 2 Chronicles 33:5. Chap. 8. 2. Ezekiel 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.

Jeremiah 7:19

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 Isaiah 57:11.) Job 35. 6, 8. Chap. 11. 17. Vers. 6. 1 Corinthians 10:22.

upon man and upon beast, &c.] I will bring an utter desolation upon it. Chap. 4. 25. & 12. 4. Zephaniah 1:3.

it shall burn, &c.] Isai. 34. 9, 10. Chap. 4. 4.

Jeremiah 7:21

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. Isaiah 1:11. & Isaiah 29:1. Chap. 6. 20. Amos 5:21.

Jeremiah 7:22

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 Samuel 15:22. Hosea 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. Exodus 24:8. Psa. 50. 5. Chap. 34. 18.

Jeremiah 7:23

this thing commanded I them] Chap. 11. 4.

Obey my voice] Deuteronomy 6:3. Heb. hear. Vers. 24.

I will be your God, and ye shall be my people] Exodus 19:5. Leviticus 26:12.

walk ye in all the wayes that I have commanded you, &c.] Deuteronomy 5:33.

Jeremiah 7:24

they hearkned not] Deuteronomy 29. 19. Psalms 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.

Jeremiah 7:25

I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets] 2 Chron. 36. 15.

Jeremiah 7:26

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.

Jeremiah 7:28

But] Or, Therefore: as Chap. 6. 11.

nor receiveth correction] Or, instruction. Chap. 6. 8.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off thine hair] In token of mourning. Job 1:20. Isaiah 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. Malachi 1:5.

Jeremiah 7:30

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.

Jeremiah 7:31

built the high places] 2 Kings 23:10. Chap. 19. 5.

Tophet] Of this this see Isaiah 30:33.

which I commanded them not] But expressely forbad; Leviticus 18:21. & 20. 3 Deu 18:10.

neither came it into my heart]] Heb. came it upon my heart. Chap. 3. 16.

Jeremiah 7:32

the dayes come, &c.] Chap. 19. 6.

Jeremiah 7:33

the carcasses of this people] Deuteronomy 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. Psalms 79:2-3.

none shall fray them away] Deuteronomy 28:26. Isaiah 17:2.

Jeremiah 7:34

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Jadah, &c.] Isai. 24. 7, 8. Chap. 16. 9. & 25. 10. & 33. 11. Ezekiel 26:13. Hosea 2:11. Revelation 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. Psalms 78:63.