Tophet, the greatest of all abominations; the beginning of the Divine retribution.
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Jeremiah 7:29-34
The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 7:29-34
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commentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 7:1-34The relations of righteousness and religion. This chapter, as indeed so much other of Jeremiah's prophecies, teaches not a little Concerning this great theme. In this chapter we note how it shows— I. THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 7:1-34EXPOSITION Ch. 7-10.—Severe rebukes of idolatry alternating with announcements of the impending judgment. The circumstances connected with this discourse, or part thereof, appear to be detailed in Jeremiah 26:1-24. Amon…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryMatthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:29-34In token both of sorrow and of slavery, Jerusalem must be degraded, and separated from God, as she had been separated to him. The heart is the place in which God has chosen to put his name; but if sin has the innermost…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Desolation of Judah. (b. c. 606.)THE DESOLATION OF JUDAH. (B. C. 606.) Here is, I. A loud call to weeping and mourning. Jerusalem, that had been a joyous city, the joy of the whole earth, must now take up a lamentation on high places (Jeremiah 7:29), t…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thine hair. The "daughter of Zion," i.e. the community of Jerusalem, is addressed; this appears from the verb being in the feminine. It is a choice expression which the prophet employs—literally, shear off thy c…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 7:29Jeremiah 8:3 The harvest of sin. I. WE READ IN OTHER SCRIPTURES OF "THE JOY OF HARVEST." Such shall be the joy of God's redeemed people when his purposes of grace are fulfilled in and for them. It will be a joy unspeaka…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 7:30They have set their abominations, etc.; alluding, doubtless, to the altars which Manasseh built "for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah," and especially to the image of the Canaanitish godd…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 7:31The high places of Tophet; rather, the high places of the Topheth—(on the "high places" (Hebrew bamoth)—here probably artificial mounds to erect the altars upon, and on "the Topheth," see Commentary on 1 Kings). In the…Joseph S. Exell and contributors