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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Jeremiah 8

Chapter 8

At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

7:32-34 1 Kings 13:2 2 Kings 23:16,20 2 Chronicles 34:4,5 Ezekiel 6:5 37:1 Amos 2:1

And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

and all

19:13 44:17-19 Deuteronomy 4:19 17:3 2 Kings 17:16 21:3,5 23:5 2 Chronicles 33:3-5 Ezekiel 8:16 Zephaniah 1:5 Acts 7:42

they shall be

9:22 16:4 22:19 36:30 2 Kings 9:36,37 Psalms 83:10 Ecclesiastes 6:3 Zephaniah 1:17

And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

death

20:14-18 1 Kings 19:4 Job 3:20-22 7:15,16 Jonah 4:3 Revelation 6:16 9:6

in all

23:3,8 29:14,28 32:36,37 40:12 Deuteronomy 30:1,4 Daniel 9:7

Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?

Moreover

Blayney justly observes, that the change of speakers here requires to be carefully attended to. The prophet first, in the name of God, reproves the people, and threatens them with grievous calamities, ver. 4-13. Then, apostrophising his countrymen, he advises them to retire with him to some fortified city, ver. 14-16. God then threatens to bring foes against them, that are irresistible, ver. 17. The prophet next commiserates the daughter of his people, who is heard bewailing her forlorn case; whilst the voice of God breaks in upon her complaints, and shows that all this ruin is brought upon her by her infidelities, ver. 18-20. The prophet regrets that her wounds had not been healed, and laments over her slain, ver. 21; ch. 9:1.

Shall they

Proverbs 24:16 Hosea 14:1 Amos 5:2 Micah 7:8

turn

3:1,22 4:1 23:14 36:3 1 Kings 8:38 Isaiah 44:22 55:7 Ezekiel 18:23 Hosea 6:1 7:10

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

slidden

2:32 3:11-14 7:24-26 Hosea 4:16 11:7

they hold

9:6 Proverbs 4:13 Isaiah 30:10 44:20 1 Thessalonians 5:21 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 Revelation 2:25

they refuse

5:3 Isaiah 1:20 Zechariah 7:11 John 5:40 Hebrews 12:25

I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

hearkened

Job 33:27,28 Psalms 14:2 Isaiah 30:18 Malachi 3:16 2 Peter 3:9

no

5:1 Isaiah 59:16 Ezekiel 22:30 Micah 7:2

saying

Job 10:2 Ezekiel 18:28 Haggai 1:5,7 Luke 15:17-19

as

2:24,25 Job 39:19-25

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

stork

Proverbs 6:6-8 Isaiah 1:3

turtle

Song of Solomon 2:12

people

5:4 Isaiah 1:3 5:12

know

5:4,5

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

We

Job 5:12,13 11:12 12:20 John 9:41 Romans 1:22 2:17-29 1 Corinthians 3:18-20

the law

Psalms 147:19 Hosea 8:12

Lo

Matthew 15:6

in vain, etc

or, the false pen of the scribes worketh for falsehood.

Proverbs 17:6 Isaiah 10:1,2

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

The wise men are

or, Have they been, etc.

6:15 49:7 Job 5:12 Isaiah 19:11 Ezekiel 7:26 1 Corinthians 1:26-29

lo

Deuteronomy 4:6 Psalms 19:7 119:98-100 Isaiah 8:20 1 Corinthians 1:18-29 2 Timothy 3:15

what wisdom

Heb. the wisdom of what thing, etc.

Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

will I

6:12 Deuteronomy 28:30-32 Amos 5:11 Zephaniah 1:13

for

6:13 Isaiah 56:10-12 Ezekiel 33:31 Micah 3:5,11 Titus 1:7,11 2 Peter 2:1-3

from the prophet

5:31 23:11-17,25,26 32:32 Isaiah 28:7 Lamentations 4:13 Ezekiel 22:27,28

For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

they

6:14 14:14,15 27:9,10 28:3-9 1 Kings 22:6,13 Lamentations 2:14 Ezekiel 13:10-16,22 Micah 2:11

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

ashamed when

3:3 6:15 Psalms 52:1,7 Isaiah 3:9 Zephaniah 3:5 Philippians 3:19

therefore

Isaiah 9:13-17 24:2 Ezekiel 22:25-31 Hosea 4:5,6

in the

Deuteronomy 32:35 Hosea 5:9

I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

I will surely consume

or, In gathering I will consume.

Isaiah 24:21,22 Ezekiel 22:19-21 24:3-11

there

Leviticus 26:20 Deuteronomy 28:39-42 Isaiah 5:4-6,10 Hosea 2:8,9 Joel 1:7,10-12 Habakkuk 3:17 Haggai 1:11 2:17 Matthew 21:19 Luke 13:6-9

the leaf

17:8 Psalms 1:3,4 James 1:11

Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the LORD our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

do

2 Kings 7:3,4

enter

4:5,6 35:11 2 Samuel 20:6

be silent

Leviticus 10:3 Psalms 39:2 Lamentations 3:27,28 Amos 6:10 Habakkuk 2:20 Zechariah 2:13

water

9:15 23:15 Numbers 5:18-24 Deuteronomy 32:32 Psalms 69:21 Lamentations 3:19 Matthew 27:34

gall

or, poison.

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

4:10 14:19 Micah 1:12 1 Thessalonians 5:3

The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

The snorting

Grotius observes, after Jerome, that Nebuchadnezzar, having subdued Phoenicia, passed through Dan, in his way to Jerusalem.

was heard

4:15,16 Judges 18:29 20:1

the whole

4:24 Habakkuk 3:10

at the

6:23 47:3 Judges 5:22 Nahum 1:4,5 3:2

of his strong ones

Of his war-horses. This is a fine image; so terrible was the united neighings of the cavalry of the Babylonians, that the reverberation of the air caused the ground to tremble.

all that is in it

Heb. the fulness thereof.

Psalms 24:1 1 Corinthians 10:26,28

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

I will

Deuteronomy 32:24 Isaiah 14:29 Amos 5:19 9:3 Revelation 9:19

which

Psalms 58:4,5 Ecclesiastes 10:11

When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

my

6:24 10:19-22 Job 7:13,14 Isaiah 22:4 Lamentations 1:16,17 Daniel 10:16,17 Habakkuk 3:16

in

Heb. upon.

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?

the voice

4:16,17,30,31 Isaiah 13:5 39:3

them, etc

Heb. the country of them that are afar off. the Lord.

14:19 31:6 Psalms 135:21 Isaiah 12:6 52:1 Joel 2:32 3:21 Obadiah 1:17 Revelation 2:1

her king

Psalms 146:10 149:2 Isaiah 33:22

Why

5,6 Deuteronomy 32:16-21 Isaiah 1:4

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

Proverbs 10:5 Luke 13:25 19:44 Hebrews 3:7-15 Matthew 25:1-12

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

the hurt

4:19 9:1 14:17 17:16 Nehemiah 2:3 Psalms 137:3-6 Luke 19:41 Romans 9:1-3

I am

Song of Solomon 1:5,6 Joel 2:6 Nahum 2:10

Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

no balm

46:11 51:8 Genesis 37:25 43:11

no physician

Matthew 9:11,12 Luke 5:31,32 8:43

why

30:12-17

recovered

Heb. gone up.

Isaiah 1:5,6