Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Jeremiah 7

Jer 7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

The word

The general character of the message in the temple gate is, like the first and second messages, one of rebuke, warning, and exhortation, but this message is addressed more to such in Judah as still maintaining outwardly the worship of Jehovah; it is a message to religious Judah, e.g. Jer 7:2, 9, 10; 8:10, 11.

Jer 7:4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

Trust ye not in lying words

Mic 3:11.

Jer 7:6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

neither walk after other gods

Deu 6:14, 15; 8:19; 11:28; 13:10.

Jer 7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

trust

Scofield Psalm 2:12, note.

Jer 7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

this house…called by my name

Mat 21:13; Mar 11:17; Luk 19:46.

Jer 7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

my place which was in Shiloh

Jos 18:1; Jdg 18:31.

Jer 7:14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

Shiloh

Jer 26:6; 1Sa 4:10, 11; Psa 78:60.

Jer 7:16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

pray not thou for this people

Jer 11:14; 14:11.

Jer 7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Do they provoke me to anger?

Deu 32:16, 21.

Jer 7:21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices

Jer 6:20; Isa 1:11; Amo 5:21; Hos 8:13.

Jer 7:22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

nor commanded them

Cf. Scofield Exodus 20:4, note 2, the threefold giving of the law. The command concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices was not given to the people till they had broken the decalogue, the law of obedience.

burnt offerings or sacrifices

1Sa 15.22; Psa 51:16, 17; Hos 6:6.

Jer 7:23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

Obey my voice

Jer 11:4, 7; Exo 15:26; Deu 6:3.

I will be your God

Exo 19:5; Lev 26:12.

Jer 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

they hearkened not

Jer 11:8; Psa 81:11.

walked in the counsels

Deu 29:19; Psa 81:12.

Jer 7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

all my servants the prophets

Jer 25:4; 29:19; 2Ch 36:15.

Jer 7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

speak all these words unto them

Eze 2:7.

Jer 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Cut off thine hair

Jer 16:6; 48:37; Job 1:20; Isa 15:2; Mic 1:16.

Jer 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

have set their abominations

Jer 23:11; 32:34; 2Ki 21:4, 7; 2Ch 33:4, 7; Eze 7:20.

Jer 7:33 And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

the carcases of this people

Jer 19:11; 2Ki 23:10; Eze 6:5. Fulfilled in part in all the destructions of Jerusalem, but with a final look toward Rev 19:17-21.

Jer 7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

the land shall be desolate

Lev 26:33; Isa 1:7; 3:26.