Jeremiah 6:30
in Jeremiah 6They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”
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ASV
Refuse silver shall men call them, because Jehovah hath rejected them.
KJV
Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.
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This verse in Jeremiah 6
Commentary
8 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Reprobate - See the margin; not really silver, but the dross. The Lord hath rejected them - This then is the end. The smelter is God’s prophet: the bellows the breath of inspiration: the flux his earnestness in preaching. But in vain does the fervour of prophecy essay to melt the hearts of the people. They are so utterly corrupt, that no particle even of pure metal can be found in them. All the refiner’s art is in vain.
This site's exposition
I have appointed you to examine My people like ore
on Jeremiah 6:27-30
Jeremiah is given a new office, set to examine the people “like ore, so you may know and try their ways”. The refining reports failure, “The bellows blow fiercely” yet “The refining proceeds in vain”. The verdict is returned, “They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them”.
This site's exposition
They are called rejected silver
Barnes reads the scene as a parable of preaching: God's prophet is the smelter, inspiration the bellows, and earnestness the flux. Rejected silver is dross called by the name of silver. The LORD's refusal ends the assay.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
(Verse 27 and following) I have appointed you as a strong tester among my people, and you will know and prove their ways. All these leaders are turning away (or disobedient), walking deceitfully (or perversely). Bronze and iron are all corrupted, the bellows in the fire have failed (which the Greeks more significantly call a 'puffer'), the lead is consumed, the refiner has vainly blown (or the moneylender). For their wickedness is not consumed: call them reprobate silver, for the Lord has rejected them.
Daniel said, "The saints of the most High shall receive the kingdom." What shall we say concerning this? Have the children of Israel received the kingdom of the most High? God forbid. Or has that people come on the clouds of heaven? This has passed away from them. For Jeremiah said concerning them, "Call them rejected silver, for the Lord has rejected them." Again he said, "He will not again regard them." And Isaiah said concerning them, "Pass by! Pass by! Approach not the defiled."
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Reprobate silver shall men call them,....
The bellows have been still kept so near the fire, to blow it, that they are burnt with the heat of it, or they are quite worn out with long use and thrown into the fire as good for nothing. The prophets have preached their throats sore with crying aloud against the sins of Israel, and yet they are not convinced and humbled.
By this it appears, (1.) That God has no pleasure in the death and ruin of sinners, for he tries all ways and methods with them to prevent their destruction and qualify them for salvation. Both his ordinances and his providences have a tendency this way, to part between them and their sins; and yet with many it is all lost labour.
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כֶּ֣סֶף | kesef | silver | H3701 → | 403 times |
| נִמְאָ֔ס | nimas | rejected | H3988 → | 76 times |
| קָרְא֖וּ | kareu | people called | H7121 → | 733 times |
| לָהֶ֑ם | lahem | <to> them | ||
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| מָאַ֥ס | maas | he has rejected | H3988 → | 76 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| בָּהֶֽם׃ פ | bahem | <in> <the> them |
כֶּ֣סֶףsilver
kesefH3701 →403 times
נִמְאָ֔סrejected
nimasH3988 →76 times
קָרְא֖וּpeople called
kareuH7121 →733 times
לָהֶ֑ם<to> them
lahem
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
מָאַ֥סhe has rejected
maasH3988 →76 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
בָּהֶֽם׃ פ<in> <the> them
bahem
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 1:25I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities.
it leads to
- Malachi 3:3
And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in…
- Jeremiah 9:7
Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
- Isaiah 1:22
Your silver has become dross; your fine wine is diluted with water.
- Malachi 3:3
Through
Hosea 9:17My God will reject them because they have not obeyed Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:64–65
Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you…
- Hosea 7:13
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me.
- Zechariah 1:4
Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen…
- Micah 7:7
But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- Zechariah 7:11–14
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
- Deuteronomy 28:64–65
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Aphrahat the Persian Sage, DEMONSTRATIONS 5:21; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.