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# Jeremiah

## Chapters 7 to 9

Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapters 4 to 6 Chapters 7 to 9 Chapter 10 Chapters 11 and 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapters 19 and 20 Chapters 21 to 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapters 27 and 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapters 31 and 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Chapters 37 and 38 Chapters 39 to 44 Chapters 49 to 51 Chapter 52 | #### The temple a witness against iniquity; the prophet's grief; God's righteous judgments Chapter 7 begins a new prophecy, contemplating especially the temple, which, instead of being a protection (as the people, without conscience, would have it), was become a further demonstration of their iniquity. They were to remember Shiloh; for the house of God should likewise be overthrown. Judah should be cast off, as Ephraim had been, and God would hear no intercession for His people. He required obedience and not sacrifice, and if the people came into His house while they were practising idolatry, they did but defile it. But Israel had less understanding than the birds of the heaven, which at least knew their appointed times, while Israel knew not the judgment of Jehovah (chap. 8). From verse 18 to verse 2 of chapter 9 the prophet lays open the depth of his grief. From verse 3 of chapter 9 he proclaims judgment -- a judgment which shall also visit the nations around. And in view of these judgments he exhorts every man not to glory in man, but in the knowledge of Jehovah (v. 23, 24). |

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