Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 15:1

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Jeremiah 15:1

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Jeremiah 15:1

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"Then said Jehovah unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth." — Jeremiah 15:1 (ASV)

Then the Lord said to me. — With a bold and terrible anthropomorphism, the prophet again speaks as if he heard the voice of Jehovah rejecting all intercession for the apostate people. The passage reminds us of the mention of Noah, Daniel, and Job in Ezekiel 14:14, as able to deliver their own souls only by their righteousness. Here Moses (Exodus 32:11; Numbers 14:13–20) and Samuel (1 Samuel 7:9; 1 Samuel 12:23) are named as having been conspicuous examples of the power of the prayer of intercession.

Cast them out of my sight. — That is, from my presence, from the courts of the Temple which they profane. That would be the answer of Jehovah, even if Moses and Samuel stood before Him (the phrase, as in Jeremiah 35:19, has a distinctly liturgical meaning), ministering in the Courts of the Temple.