x In this Verſe ag-in the Particle isil! rran{l-ted 4nd anl For in the latter Clauſe, -The Learned Au hor of the Engliſh Annotations Judgeth wel], that it 3d been berter tranſlated where as in the ſ-cond Place, as Gem 4. 11. Pſal. 102. 5. or albeit, or cho) as it is tranſlas ted. Fo. 17.18. Pſal. 23.4. and7et inſt:ad of And in the beginning as1t 1s Chap. 23« 21. Loxd! faiththe Prophet, expound thy mean= ing to me, why, when theCity is upon the matrer ready to be yeilded up to the Chaldzans, and cannot poſſi-ly hold our long, thou fhouldſt ſer me to makePurchates for rhineEnemies to poſlels.
26 4 Then came the word of the LORD unto Je- remiah, ſaying,
27 Behold, I 2m the LORD, the * God of all fleſh : Is there any thing too hard for me y 2
) The Lord beginneth ri:is Revelation for che Prophets fatisf:- on, with the Preface -expreflive of his power, and univerſal do= minion, from which Feremah might underſtand rhat he could do whatſoever he pleaſed, and Man thar was bur fleth, Gen, 6. 3+ could not hinder his effe&ting what hz deſigned ro do, God is alſo the God of the Spirits of all fleſh, Numb. 16. 22, bur he expreſſ=rh Man here only under the notion of fleſh, as Gez 6. 3. todenote his vileneſs and inconfiderableneſs as to any grapling with Go4, and - incountring hi: Purpoſes.
28 Therefore thus ſaich the LORD, Behold, I will g1ve this city into the hand of che Chalideans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he ſhall take it. | |
29 And the Chaldeans that fight againſt this city, ' ſhall come and * ſer fire on this city and burn it with WA the houſes z, * upon whoſe roofs they have offered in- * Ch.21.is | cenſe unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto o- Ch*p« | ther Gods to provoke me.to anger 3. eos
z Thou judgeſt right this Ciry ſhall be taken, and that by: this. very Army of Chaldeans which now beſiegeth ic they ſhall ſer fire on 1t, and burn the Houles; I have made allfleſh and I have Power to diſpoſe of it, I will give this City into their hands, «: Bur in this execution of my Vengeance I ſhall not a& by . Prerogative, but as 2 juſt and righteous Judge, vin.iciting the violation of my Laws they have polluted their Houlcs, by Idolatry vpon the R-ofs of them, they have offered incenſe paid a Divine Homage to the I:tol Baal, and in them they have worſhiped orher Gols, therefore Þ will. watch over, and proteC& them no longer, bur ſend the Chaldeans by their Fires to purge them. ,_ [1-70
30 For the children of Iſrael, and the children of Judah have only dons evil before ms from their youth: for the children ot Iſrael, have only provoked me to : anger with the works of their hands, ſaich the
LORDs. : b If they had offended me only by ſome particular ſingle a&s, or by ſome few Omifſions, or bur for a ſmall time ; I might have been judged roo ſevere upon them bur from therime rhey firſt began to bea Nation, they have made it their Buſineſs, Courle,and Trade, paſſing from one Idolatry toanother, &c, |
31 For this City hath been to me as Þ a provocation
of mine anger, and of my fury, from the day that they
built it, evea to this day c, that I (hould remove ic
from before my faced.
c Solomon finiſhed the building of Hirruſalem, and he at leaſt ſuf. fered IdolJatry inir, - King, 11-4. 8. Peop'e have alwite been fo fond of worſhipping Goa according totbeir own Fancies and Inventicns, that even inJudeh, ( except in David's time ) the Worſhip of God could hard!y be preterved pure, during the entire Reiga of one King. d Asifthey had done it on purpoſe to provoke me to deſt:oy che City, and caſt the People of it out. Nothing more eafie than for People to keep cloſe to the Divine Rule, as to external Ads in Worſhip; nothing is more provocative of God than their doing rhe contrary. Yet nothing hath been more rar-ly done in any Nati® on, as if Men had ſer themſelves to dare a Jealous God.
32 Becauſe of all the evil of the children of Iſrael, and of the children of Judah which rhey have done, to provoke me to anger, they, their Kings, their princes, cheir prieſts, and their prophets, and -the men of Ju- dah, and the inhabitants of Jeruſelem e.
e Still God maketh their deſtruQion to be of ttemſelves, as the meritorious cauſe, provoking him to that Wrath he executed upon them. The whole Head was ſick, the whole heart fainr. All ors ders of men were corrupted, fo as there was no bope of their Ree formation, or growing better.
23 And they have turned unto me the + * back, and notthe face, f though I taught them, riſing up + Hes: zarly, and trezching them, yet they have not hearke-» ot. | ned toreceive inſtructiong. I
f They have behaved rhemtclves againſt me contemptuouſly * 7* __ like Men, who when they are ſpoken to, admoniſhed or iaſtruttcd 7: *t' :nftead of looking towaras thoſe who iaitrutt, or admon:th them. turn their back upon them. & Yettheir fin had not been fo great
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=” þ Their Idols, whichabove all things the Jealous God abhorreth zck. 8.5. nd therefore he calleth them @bominations in the abſtra& for abo- minable things, Deut, 32 16+ 1 Kings 11, 5. 2 Kings 23.13. 2 That is, in the Temple, which was ordinarily called the Houſe of the Lord and the Temple of the Lord. _ :
25 And they builtthe high places of Baal which rc in the valley of the ſon of Hinnom, to * cauſe cheir Chap. 7. ſons and their daughters topaſs through the fire unto 1. 19. 51, Molech, which I commanded them not, neither came "Lev. 28. itinto my mind that they ſhould do this abomination
b. to cauſe Judah to fin &. 2 k See the notes on Chap. i9. 5, 6. where all paſſages we meet with here are fully opened. :
26 © And now therefore thus faith the LORD the Godof Ifrael, concerning this city, whereot ye fay, It (hall bedelivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, by the ſword, and by the famine, and by the pefti- lence ». |
» The Jews now began to ſee that the Chaldeans would take the City, and to be as dead hearted as before they were full of courage | and to give overt::emſelves for ever as loſt. ,