Jeremías 7:23

23 Sino que esto es lo que les mandé, diciendo: "Escuchad mi voz y yo seré vuestro Dios y vosotros seréis mi pueblo, y andaréis en todo camino que yo os envíe para que os vaya bien.

Jeremías 7:23 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing commanded I them, saying
This was the sum and substance of what was then commanded, even obedience to the moral law; this was the main and principal thing enjoined, and to which the promise was annexed: obey my voice:
the word of the Lord, his commands, the precepts of the decalogue; obedience to which was preferable to the sacrifices of the ceremonial law; see ( 1 Samuel 15:22 ) , wherefore it follows: and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people;
the meaning is, that while they were obedient to him, he would protect them from their enemies, and continue them in their privileges and blessings, which he had bestowed upon them as his peculiar people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you;
not only in some of them, but in all of them; not merely in the observance of legal sacrifices, but chiefly in the performance of moral actions; even in all the duties of religion, in whatsoever is required in the law, respecting God or man: that it may be well unto you;
that they might continue in the land which was given them for an inheritance, and enjoy all the blessings promised to their obedience.

Jeremías 7:23 In-Context

21 Así dice el SEÑOR de los ejércitos, el Dios de Israel: Añadid vuestros holocaustos a vuestros sacrificios y comed la carne.

22 Porque yo no hablé a vuestros padres, ni les ordené nada en cuanto a los holocaustos y sacrificios, el día que los saqué de la tierra de Egipto.

23 Sino que esto es lo que les mandé, diciendo: "Escuchad mi voz y yo seré vuestro Dios y vosotros seréis mi pueblo, y andaréis en todo camino que yo os envíe para que os vaya bien.

24 Mas ellos no escucharon ni inclinaron su oído, sino que anduvieron en sus propias deliberaciones y en la terquedad de su malvado corazón, y fueron hacia atrás y no hacia adelante.

25 Desde el día que vuestros padres salieron de la tierra de Egipto hasta hoy, os he enviado a todos mis siervos los profetas, madrugando cada día y enviándolos.