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Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? All the people were gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.
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Presuming on God's Grace
The people's outrage stemmed from a belief that God would never allow His temple to be destroyed like Shiloh. Commentators explain this was a dangerous presumption. They had wrongly separated God's promise of presence from His requirement for righteousness, treating the temple as a magical charm that guaranteed their safety regardless of their sin.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The charge against Jeremiah was that of prophesying falsely, for which the penalty was death (Deuteronomy 18:20). They assumed that it …
19th Century
Anglican
Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the Lord ...? —The threat that the house in which they gloried should be like the old sanc…
16th Century
Protestant
Here the cause of Jeremiah’s condemnation is also added: that he had dared to threaten the holy city and the Temple with such severity. They did no…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord Made use of his name in declaring a falsehood, as they would have it…
The priests and prophets charged Jeremiah as deserving death, and bore false witness against him. The elders of Israel came to inquire into this ma…
13th Century
Catholic
Here, he speaks of the persecution, making four points about it.
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