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Jeremiah 11:7

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7 For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, 1warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, 2Obey my voice.
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Jeremiah 11:7 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 11:7

For I earnestly protested unto your fathers
Or "witnessing, witnessed" F7; testified his great affection for them; importunately solicited their observation of his precepts for their good; and strictly cautioned them against neglect and disobedience: the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt;
(See Gill on Jeremiah 11:4): even unto this day, rising early, and protesting, saying, obey my
voice;
that is, from the time of the giving of the law, in all successive ages, to the present time, he had sent his prophets to them, time after time, morning by morning, early and late, to press, exhort, and stir them up to an obedience to his will, and to warn them of the evils that would come by disobedience to it.

FOOTNOTES:

F7 (ytdeh deh) "testificando tesficatus sum", Schmidt; "contestando contestatus sum", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Jeremiah 11:7 In-Context

5 that I may confirm the oath that I swore to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day." Then I answered, "So be it, LORD."
6 And the LORD said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: Hear the words of this covenant and do them.
7 For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice.
8 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not."
9 Again the LORD said to me, "A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Jeremiah 7:25; See 2 Chronicles 36:15
  • 2. [See ver. 4 above]
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