Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.
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Yahweh said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.
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Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
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And the LORD said unto me: 'Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
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Passages linked to Jeremiah 11:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Romans 2:13 For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified
- James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
- Jeremiah 3:12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
- Jeremiah 7:2 “Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim this word there, and say, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.’ ”
- Jeremiah 19:2 and go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I will tell you.
- John 13:17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
- Psalms 15:5 he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
- Isaiah 58:1 “Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Jeremiah 11:2-4 “Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and say to them, Yahweh, the God of Israel says: ‘Cursed is the man who doesn’t hear the words of this covenant, which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace,’ saying, ‘Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you; so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;
- Zechariah 7:7 Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’ ”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain Here the Prophet explains more clearly why he had…
Here the Prophet explains more clearly why he had been commanded to promulgate the words of the covenant: for the greater part of the people were no doubt ready boldly to object and say, “What dost thou mean? Are not we the disciples of Moses? Thou, forsooth! thinkest that thou hast to do with a barbarous people. Have we not been from our childhood taught the law of God? Is it not daily enjoined on us? We are sufficiently instructed in this doctrine of which thou pretendest that we are ignorant. Be gone hence; and go either to the Chaldeans or to the Assyrians or to the Egyptians; for we understand what the law teaches.”
There is then no doubt but that Jeremiah had been repulsed by this kind of insolence: he therefore shews that he had a just cause to set before them the law of God; for so great an oblivion had prevailed, that they did not know what God had formerly taught in his law: and besides, they and their fathers had been always rebellious, so that they had ever need of being taught, according to what is said by Isaiah, that the people were to be treated like children and taught, A, A; B, B, and that though the same things were repeated, they yet stopped at the rudiments and never made any progress. (Isaiah 28:10, 13) As then Isaiah reproached the people with tardiness in learning the law, so Jeremiah shews now that they were not to think it strange that God commanded his law to be proclaimed to them, because it had been hitherto despised by them. The rest we shall defer.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jer 11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim…
Jer 11:6 Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
Ver. 6. Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.] Else ye hear to no purpose; as the salamander liveth in the fire, and is not made hot by the fire; as the Ethiopian goeth black into the bath, and as black he cometh forth.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Let it be thy work to call upon this…
Let it be thy work to call upon this people, not only to hear, but to do, the words which I have commanded them, and they have engaged to do.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For I earnestly protested unto your fathers,.... Or "witnessing,…
For I earnestly protested unto your fathers,.... Or "witnessing, witnessed" (g); 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 Jer 11:4,
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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.
(g) "testificando tesficatus sum", Schmidt; "contestando contestatus sum", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. Proclaim all these words] Let the same…
Verse 6. Proclaim all these words] Let the same covenant, with the blessings and cursings, be read in every city of Judah, and in all the streets of Jerusalem, that all the people may know their duty, their privileges, and their danger.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jer 11:6-8. Proclaim all these words in the cities…
Jer 11:6-8. Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, &c. — That all may hear, for all are concerned; saying, Hear ye the words, &c., and do them — Let it be thy work to call upon this people, not only to hear, but to do the things which I have commanded them, and which they have engaged to do. For I earnestly protested — Hebrew, in protesting I protested; a way of speaking by which the Hebrews expressed the seriousness and earnestness wherewith any thing was done: by protesting, he means the same with charging and solemnly enjoining, with promises annexed to obedience, and threatenings denounced in case of disobedience. This, God says, he had done with a great deal of patience and diligence, even from the time that this people were brought by him out of the land of Egypt to the present period. Yet they obeyed not — And, because they were resolved not to be subject to God’s commandments, they would not so much as incline their ears to them, but walked every one in the imagination of his evil heart, following their own inventions; and each one acting as his fancy or humour led him, both in their devotions and in their conversations. Therefore I will bring upon them all the words of this covenant — That is, all the threatenings contained in it. Observe, reader, the words of God’s covenant shall not fall to the ground. If we do not by our obedience qualify ourselves for the blessings of it, we shall, by our disobedience, bring ourselves under the curses of it.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Proclaim ... - Probably Jeremiah accompanied Josiah in his…
Proclaim ... - Probably Jeremiah accompanied Josiah in his progress 2Ki 23:15-20, and everywhere read to the people the words of the newly-found book.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Cities, or to those who come thence to the…
Cities, or to those who come thence to the temple, that all may know.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Jeremiah was to take a prophetic tour throughout Judah,…
Jeremiah was to take a prophetic tour throughout Judah, to proclaim everywhere the denunciations in the book of the law found in the temple.
Hear . . . do-- (Rom 2:13; Jam 1:22).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. In the cities of Judah — Comp. 2Ki_23:15-20.…
6. In the cities of Judah — Comp. 2Ki_23:15-20. Henderson suggests that Jeremiah accompanied Josiah in visits to the different cities to carry forward his work of reformation. Certainly the work of these two reformers was mutually helpful, and each has an illustrative bearing upon that of the other.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6–8. See summary at commencement of section. Gi. omits…
6–8. See summary at commencement of section. Gi. omits these three vv. But Jer_11:6 is needed, in order to account for the hostility roused at Anathoth by Jeremiah’s mission. Jer_11:7-8 on the other hand are omitted by LXX, and may well have been inserted here from the parallel passage, Jer_7:23 f.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) In the cities of Judah . . .—It…
(6) In the cities of Judah . . .—It is, at least, probable that the words are to be taken literally, and that the prophet went from city to city, doing his work as a preacher of repentance, and taking the new-found book of Deuteronomy as his text. The narrative of 2Ki_23:13-20 indicates an iconoclastic journey throughout the kingdom as made by Josiah; and the prophetic discourse now before us, enforcing the observance of the covenant just made, would have been a fit accompaniment for such a mission.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Proclaim all these words, etc. This command probably points…
Proclaim all these words, etc. This command probably points to a missionary circuit of Jeremiah, as suggested above. Others render, "read aloud"; (comp. 2Ki_22:8, Hebrew) but Jeremiah receives the direction to "proclaim" or "cry" elsewhere. (Jer_2:2 Jer_3:12, etc.) So Gabriel, in the Koran, directs Mohammed to "cry," i.e. to proclaim or preach (Sura 96:1).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 serious and important
solemn
serious and important
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the words of this covenant
"the terms of this covenant"
carry them out
This is an idiom. AT: "obey them" (See: Idiom)
Listen to my voice
The word "voice" here is a metonym for what the speaker says with the voice, and "listen" is a metonym for "obey." AT: "Obey what I say" (See: Metonymy)
Each person has been walking in the stubbornness of his wicked heart.
Here "walking" is an idiom for the way a person lives. The word "heart" is a metonym for a person's desires and emotions. AT: "Each person has refused to change and has been living by his own wicked desires" or "Each person has refused to change and continues to do the evil things that they want to do" (See: Idiom and Metonymy)
So I brought all the curses in this covenant that I commanded to come against them
"So I punished them with all the curses that I described in this covenant that I had commanded them to obey"
translationWords
preach
walk
stiff-necked
evil
heart
people group
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 11:6-7 Jeremiah was to use every available means to…
11:6-7 Jeremiah was to use every available means to broadcast the Lord’s message to as many people as he could. As he visited every town and walked the streets of Jerusalem, he reminded the people to remember and obey the requirements of the ancient covenant.
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