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God Condemns Human-Invented Worship
The verse ends with God's powerful indictment: 'which I commanded not, neither came it into my mind.' Commentators like Calvin and Gill stress this is the core issue. The people's horrific act of child sacrifice wasn't just immoral; it was an illegitimate form of worship they invented. This serves as a timeless principle: true worship is rooted in obedience to God's commands found in Scripture, not in human traditions or zealous acts that He has not authorized.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 7:29–33
18th Century
Theologian
Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 7:31
19th Century
Bishop
High places. —Not the same word as in Jeremiah 7:29, but bamoth, as in the “high places” of Baal in Numbers 22:41;[Refere…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 7:31
16th Century
Theologian
Jeremiah in this verse also inveighs against those superstitions by which the Jews had corrupted the true and pure worship of God. He says that the…
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 7:31
17th Century
Pastor
And they have built the high places of Tophet
Where was the idol Moloch; and which place had its name, as Jarchi thinks, from …
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 7:29–34
17th Century
Minister
As a token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded and separated from God, as she had been separated to him.
The heart is t…