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Subtle Deception as Idolatry
Commentators explain that the false prophets' error was more insidious than the open Baal worship of their ancestors. By mixing their own dreams with claims of divine authority, they were corrupting true religion from within. The verse equates this subtle deception with outright idolatry because the end result is the same: causing God's people to forget His name.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 23:27
18th Century
Theologian
To his neighbor - that is, to one another, to the people about him, to anyone.
As their fathers ... - Rather, as their …
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 23:27
19th Century
Bishop
As their fathers have forgotten ... — The two evils of open idolatry and false claims to prophecy were, the prophet seems…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 23:27–28
19th Century
Preacher
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 23:26–27
16th Century
Theologian
Here God reproves the false prophets and also promises His people what was especially to be desired—that He would cleanse His Church from such poll…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 23:27
17th Century
Pastor
Which think to cause my people to forget my name
The Septuagint and Arabic versions render it, "my law". The word an…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 23:23–32
17th Century
Minister
People cannot be hidden from God's all-seeing eye. Will they never see what judgments they prepare for themselves?
Let them consider what a …