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A Justified Judgment
God challenges the people to search Jerusalem for just one righteous person, offering to pardon the entire city for their sake. Commentators explain this is a rhetorical device to prove a point: the city's corruption was total and incurable. This demonstrates that God's coming judgment was not overly harsh or impulsive, but a necessary response to a society that had completely abandoned truth, leaving no room for His mercy to operate.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 5:1
18th Century
Theologian
The broad places - The open spaces next to the gates, and other places of gathering.
A man - Or, anyone.
He who exec…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 5:1
19th Century
Bishop
Run ye to and fro. —The dark shades of the picture seem at first hardly to belong to the reign of Josiah, which is brough…
Charles Spurgeon
On Jeremiah 5:1
19th Century
Preacher
It was a very wonderful offer, on the part of God, to forgive the inhabitants of the whole city of Jerusalem for the sake of one man; and it was al…
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John Calvin
On Jeremiah 5:1
16th Century
Theologian
In this verse, as in those which follow, God shows that he was not too rigid or too severe in denouncing utter ruin on his people, because their wi…
John Gill
On Jeremiah 5:1
17th Century
Pastor
Run you to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem
These are the words of the Lord, not to the prophet only, but to…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 5:1–9
17th Century
Minister
None could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. But the Lord saw the true character of the people through all their disguises.
The…