Jeremiah 7:15

15 I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.^[a]

Jeremiah 7:15 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 7:15

And I will cast you out of my sight
Or, "from before my face", or "faces" ^F14; out of the land of Judea, and cause them to go into captivity; and so the Targum paraphrases it,

``I will cause you to remove out of the land of the house of my majesty:''

as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim;
or Israel, as the Targum; that is, the ten tribes so called, because Ephraim, a principal tribe, and the metropolis of the kingdom, was in it, and Jeroboam, the first king of the ten tribes, was of it: now, as they were carried captive into Babylon, so should the Jews; or they of the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin; who could not expect to fare better than their brethren, who were more in number than they; and especially since they were guilty of the same sins.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 (ynp lem) "desuper faciebus meis", Montanus; "a faciebus meis" Schmidt.

Jeremiah 7:15 In-Context

13 Now, because you have done all these things"-[this is] the Lord's declaration-"and because I have spoken to you time and time again but you wouldn't listen, and I have called to you, but you wouldn't answer,

14 what I did to Shiloh I will do to the house that is called by My name-the house in which you trust-the place that I gave you and your ancestors.

15 I will drive you from My presence, just as I drove out all of your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

16 "As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not offer a cry or a prayer on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

17 Don't you see how they behave in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Footnotes

• [a] Dt 29:28; 2 Kg 17