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Jeremiah 7:2
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Trusting in Lying Words

1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
2 a“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who enter in at these gates to worship the Lord!’ ”  
3 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: a“Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.  
4 aDo not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.’  
5 “For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly aexecute judgment between a man and his neighbor,  
6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, aor walk after other gods to your hurt,  
7 athen I will cause you to dwell in this place, in bthe land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.  
8 “Behold, you trust in alying words that cannot profit.  
9 aWill you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and bwalk after other gods whom you do not know,  
10 aand then come and stand before Me in this house bwhich is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?  
11 Has athis house, which is called by My name, become a bden of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.  
12 “But go now to aMy place which was in Shiloh, bwhere I set My name at the first, and see cwhat I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.  
13 And now, because you have done all these works,” says the Lord, “and I spoke to you, arising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I bcalled you, but you did not answer,  
14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to aShiloh.  
15 And I will cast you out of My sight, aas I have cast out all your brethren—bthe whole posterity of Ephraim.  
16 “Therefore ado not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; bfor I will not hear you.  
17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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Jeremiah 7:1-2

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 Jer. 26 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 Jer. 26 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 Jer. 7:2-8:3.

(2) complaints follow of a more general character, in which the growing wickedness of the nation and especially of the leaders is pointed out Jer. 8:4-9:24.

(3) lastly the prophet shows the possibility of averting the evils impending upon the nation Jer. 9:25-10:25.

Jeremiah 10:1-2. The temple had several entrances II 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).


 
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