Jeremiah 7:17 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 7:17

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

KJV

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ASV

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

WEB

Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

YLT

Art thou not seeing what they are doing In cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem?

DBT

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Ezekiel 8:6–18
He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
Ezekiel 14:23
And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord God.
Jeremiah 44:9
Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jeremiah 6:27
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
1 Kings 21:29
Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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This intimates both that the sin was evident and could not be denied and that the sinners were impudent and would not be reclaimed; they committed their wickedness even in the prophet's presence and under his eye; he saw what they did, and yet they did it, which was an affront to his office, and to him whose officer he was, and bade defiance to both.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

He sets before the people that fundamental maxim of religion that "to obey is better than sacrifice" ( 1 Sam. xv. 22 ), and that God would not accept the sacrifices of those that obstinately persisted in disobedience,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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