Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
This thing commanded I them - Obey my voice - It was not sacrifices and oblations which I required of your fathers in the wilderness, but obedience; it was to walk in that way of righteousness which I have commanded; then I should have acknowledged them for my people, and I should have been their God, and then it would have been well with them. But to my commands,
1.They hearkened not - paid no regard to my word.
2.They inclined not the ear - showed no disposition to attend to my counsels.
3.They walked in the imaginations of their evil heart - followed its irregular and impure motions, rather than the holy dictates of my Spirit.
4.They went backward and not forward. Instead of becoming more wise, obedient, and holy, they grew more corrupt; so that they became more profligate than their fathers.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Jeremiah 7:23:
Exodus 15:26
Isaiah 43:22
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