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Izhibhalo Ezingcwele
UYeremiya 5:7
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
How shall: Jeremiah 3:19, Hosea 11:8, Matthew 23:37, Matthew 23:38
sworn by: Jeremiah 12:16, Joshua 23:7, Hosea 4:15, Amos 8:14, Zephaniah 1:5
no gods: Jeremiah 2:11, Deuteronomy 32:21, 1 Corinthians 8:4, Galatians 4:8
I had fed: Jeremiah 2:31, Deuteronomy 32:15, Ezekiel 16:49, Ezekiel 16:50, Hosea 13:6, James 5:1-5
they then: Jeremiah 9:2, Jeremiah 13:27, Jeremiah 23:10, Jeremiah 29:22, Jeremiah 29:23, Leviticus 20:10, Psalms 50:18, Ezekiel 22:11, Hosea 4:2, Hosea 4:13, Hosea 4:14, Hosea 7:4, Malachi 3:5, 1 Corinthians 6:9, Hebrews 13:4, James 4:4
by troops: Numbers 25:1-3
Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - strange Genesis 42:15 - By the life Exodus 23:21 - he will not Leviticus 27:8 - according Deuteronomy 6:13 - shalt swear Judges 19:25 - and abused Job 31:12 - General Jeremiah 16:11 - Because Lamentations 3:42 - thou Hosea 6:4 - what Romans 2:22 - adultery
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How shall I pardon thee for this?.... Because of their manifold transgressions, and multiplied backslidings; or "wherefore, or for what, shall I pardon thee?" r as the Targum; can any reason be given why I should? what goodness is there in thee, or done by thee, that I should do this unto thee? The particle אי, according to Kimchi, is a word of exclamation; and, according to Jarchi, of admiration; and may be rendered, "oh! for this shall I pardon?" how can it be? R. Menachem; in Jarchi, takes it to be the same with אין, "not"; and to be rendered, not for this will I pardon; and so is an affirmation, and fixed resolution not to pardon, and that for the following reasons:
thy children have forsaken me; my worship, as the Targum interprets it; that is, the children of Jerusalem, the inhabitants of it, the common people, as distinguished from their fathers, the civil and ecclesiastical rulers; see Matthew 23:37, though not to the exclusion of them; for they were guilty of the same sin in forsaking the word, worship, and ordinances of God:
and sworn by them that are no gods; by the name of idols, as the Targum; or, "by those things which are not god", as Noldius s renders the words; who rightly observes, that there were other things besides idols that they swore by, as the heaven and earth, temple, altar, c. with which the Arabic version agrees when an oath ought only to be taken in the name of the living God; or, "swore without God"; without making mention of the name of the true God:
when I had fed them to the full; with the good things of life; gave them all things richly to enjoy; the best provisions, and fulness of them; so that they had all that heart could wish for. There is in the Hebrew text a beautiful play on words t, between the word used for swearing in the former clause, and this for feeding here:
they then committed adultery; either idolatry, which is spiritual adultery; or adultery literally taken; as it seems from the following verse. This is the consequence of their being fullly fed; and that is an aggravation of this their sin against God and their neighbour; see
Deuteronomy 32:13:
and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses; either in the temples of idols, or in the stews or brothel houses, where harlots prostituted themselves; their going thither in troops, or in great numbers, shows both how universal and how public this sin was, and how impudent and barefaced they were in the commission of it.
r אי לזאת אסלח לך "ad quid, [vel] ob quid, [vel] quare parcam tibi?" De Dieu. s Ebr. Concord. Part. p. 199. No. 911. t וישבעו "et juraverunt", ואשבע "cum saturarem".
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Rather, Why, “for what reason” should “I pardon thee?”
When ... - Or, “though I bound them to me by oath, yet they committed adultery.”
The harlots’ houses - The harlot’s house, i. e., the temple of an idol; the prophet had also in view (see Jeremiah 5:8) the unchastity which accompanied most forms of nature-worship.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Jeremiah 5:7. In the harlots' houses. — In places consecrated to idolatry. In the language of the prophets, adultery generally signifies idolatry. This we have often seen.
