Jeremiah 7:21 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 7:21

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!

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ASV

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Verse 21) Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. When He condemns the temple, He consequently condemns the sacrifices as well; and He indirectly accuses them because they offer victims not out of reverence for Him, but out of a desire for feasts.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The meaning is, Increase your sacrifices as you will. Acid burnt-offering to peace-offerings. All is in vain as long as you neglect the indispensable requirements of obedience and moral purity. Eat flesh is equivalent to sacrifice. The flesh of animals offered in sacrifice was usually eaten by the offerers, and this meal was regarded as a symbol of reconciliation. God and man partook of the same victim, and so were made friends. This passage Jer 7:21-28 is the Haphtarah (lesson) from the prophets, after the Parashah, Lev. 6–8, or Lesson from the Law.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Put . . . burnt offerings unto . . . sacrifices . . . eat flesh--Add the former (which the law required to be wholly burnt) to the latter (which were burnt only in part), and "eat flesh" even off the holocausts or burnt offerings.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֹּ֥ה	koh	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֛ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֥ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
צְבָא֖וֹת	tze.va.'ot	of hosts	H6635 →
אֱלֹהֵ֣י	'e.lo.Hei	[the] God of	H430 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
עֹלוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם	o.lo.tei.Khem	burnt offerings your	H5930 →
סְפ֥וּ	se.Fu	add	H3254 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
זִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם	ziv.chei.Khem	sacrifices your	H2077 →
וְאִכְל֥וּ	ve.'ikh.Lu	and eat	H398 →
בָשָֽׂר׃	va.Sar	meat	H1320 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Jeremiah 6:20
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
leads to
- Isaiah 1:11
  “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood…
- Micah 6:6–8
  With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
- Amos 5:21–22
  “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Psalms 40:6
  Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
Through
Hosea 8:13
Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to…
leads to
- Hosea 9:6
  For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.
- Hosea 9:9
  They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
- Amos 5:22
  Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
- Amos 8:7
  The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

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About Jeremiah