Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 7:2

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Jeremiah 7:2

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Jeremiah 7:2

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"Stand in the gate of Jehovah`s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah." — Jeremiah 7:2 (ASV)

The gate of the Lord’s house. — As a priest, Jeremiah would have access to all parts of the Temple. On some day when the courts were thronged with worshippers (Jeremiah 7:10), probably a fast-day specially appointed, he stands at the inner gate of one of the courts, possibly, as in Jeremiah 17:19, the one through which the king entered in ceremonial state, and, looking out over the multitudes that thronged it, speaks to them "the word of the Lord," the message which he had been specially commissioned to deliver.