Jeremiah 33:23
in Jeremiah 33Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying,
KJV
Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,
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This verse in Jeremiah 33
Commentary
4 notes on this verseGod speaketh once, yea, twice, for the encouragement of his people. We are not only so disobedient that we have need of precept upon precept to bring us to our duty, but so distrustful that we have need of promise upon promise to bring us to our comfort. This word, as the former, came to Jeremiah when he was in prison.
This site's exposition
Moreover, the word of the LORD
on Jeremiah 33:23-26
The final word quotes a taunt before answering it: “The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen.” The answer ties Israel's standing to creation. The LORD would reject “the descendants of Jacob” only if He had not established “My covenant with the day and the night.”
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
22 ), and has continued ever since, Ps. xix. The morning and the evening have both of them their regular outgoings ( Ps. lxv. 8 ); the day-spring knows its place, knows its time, and keeps both, so do the shadows of the evening; and, while the world stands, this course shall not be altered, this covenant shall not be broken.
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Moreover the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah,.... Upon the same subject, concerning the continuance of David's seed; with a refutation of a calumny uttered against the Lord about the rejection of them: saying; as follows:
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַֽיְהִי֙ | vayhi | and it came | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| דְּבַר־ | devar- | [the] word of | H1697 → | 1440 times |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֶֽל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ | yirmeyahu | Jeremiah | H3414 → | 147 times |
| לֵאמֹֽר׃ | lemor | <to> saying | H559 → | 5305 times |
וַֽיְהִי֙and it came
vayhiH1961 →3559 times
דְּבַר־[the] word of
devar-H1697 →1440 times
יְהוָ֔הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֶֽל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
יִרְמְיָ֖הוּJeremiah
yirmeyahuH3414 →147 times
לֵאמֹֽר׃<to> saying
lemorH559 →5305 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.