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The Root of Bad Leadership
Commentators agree the "shepherds" or "pastors" refer to Israel's leaders—kings, officials, priests, and prophets. Their core failure was spiritual: they became "brutish" or unthinking because they "have not inquired of the Lord." This failure to seek God for counsel and wisdom was the root cause of the nation's crisis.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 10:19–25
18th Century
Theologian
The lamentation of the daughter of Zion, the Jewish Church, at the devastation of the land, and her humble prayer to God for mercy ([Reference Jere…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 10:21
19th Century
Bishop
The pastors. —The “shepherds,” used, as in Jeremiah 2:8; Jeremiah 3:15, and elsewhere, of rulers generally, rather than…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 10:21–22
19th Century
Preacher
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered. Be…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 10:21
16th Century
Theologian
In the first place, he assigns a cause for the dreadful devastation of which he had spoken, and that was because the shepherds were without thought…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 10:21
17th Century
Pastor
For the pastors are become brutish
The "kings" of Judah, so the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, as Jehoiakim and Zedekia…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 10:17–25
17th Century
Minister
The Jews who continued in their own land felt secure. But, sooner or later, sinners will find all things as the word of God has declared, and that …