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Jeremiah 7:7
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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,  
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Jeremiah 7:5-7

A summary of the conditions indispensable on man' s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor.

Jeremiah 7:6

In this place - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent blood shed there judicially. Of one such judicial murder Jehoiakim had already been guilty Jeremiah 26:23.

Jeremiah 7:7

Why then do not the Jews still possess a land thus eternally given them? Because God never bestows anything unconditionally. The land was bestowed upon them by virtue of a covenant Genesis 17:7; the Jews had broken the conditions of this covenant Jeremiah 7:5-6, and the gift reverted to the original donor.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 7:7:

Jeremiah 7:5-7
Zechariah 7:10
James 1:27

 

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