the Token and Pledges of my Preſence among you, when you firſt entred into the pleaſant Land, noting the antiquity of Shiloh be- fore the Temple. 7 z.e. He utterly forſook it, he did not only deliver up h15 People into the Phzliſtines hands, but the Ark alſo, the token of his preſence, which never returned to Sbilþ more, aud aft-rwards delivered the 10 Tribes wherein S$h;10h was fituate, into Captivity to the AjJjrian. See Ver. 14, 15. Wherein he upbraids chem for their fol:y 1n thinking that the Ark or Altar in the Tem< ple ſhould any inore priviledge them thar, it did Shiloh. k He gives them the reaſon of it in theſe words, The wickedneſs of his 9-ople, and chiefly the Prieſts, Hophni and Phineas, Eli's Sons, 1 Sam. 2. 124 2. and why ſhould they think to eicape, wha did equal. if not exceed them.
13 And now, becauſe ye have done all theſe / works, ſaich the LORD, and 1 1pake unto you, * rj- ſing up #: early, and ſpeaking, but ye heard not ; and * | called you, but ye anſwered not.
{ Either the ſame, or as bad, or worſe than they did at $hzlob, or particularly thoſe mentioned, Ver, g. m A Metaphor taken from eerſons that are diligent in their Buſineſs, they uſe to riſe up early, . 4. I did not only ſpeak by my Prefhers, but they in my Name uſed all diligence to reclaim you, Chap. 11+ 7, 8. and a5 3, 4. Calle ;ng earneſtly unto you, by which he means his Exhortations and Menaces, Which ought to have had fome efficacy upon them; bur you ſlighted, and diſregarded them, and would not come at my Call, Prov. 1. 24. See on 2-Chron. 36. 15,16, and on Iſa. 50. 2.
14 2 Therefore will I o do unto thi houſe which is called by my name ; wherein ye truſt, and unto the » place: which I q gave to you and to your fathers, as [ have done * to r Shiloh. * 1Sam. 4. n Becauſe they have added this their obſtinate refuſing of all 1%», £7" Admonitions to the reſt of their Provocations. o Viz. Cauſe the Pla) 78.60 conſecrated things of the Temple to be taken way by the hand of &!1ap.26.6 the Babylenians. p See Ver. 7. q Viz. Upon condition of your Obe- dience,Pſal, 105. 44,45- and therefore may juſtly, upon the breach of the Condition, rake from you again, nay, by virtue of my So-
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a6 7 AnJl will caſt you ont of my ſtght, as I have caſt oc all your Brechen, ever the whole feed of z Ephraim.
/ You thall have my preſence wich, and watchful eye over you no more; bur & will iead you 1nto Caprivity to Babylon, as I did your Brethren inco Aſſyria 3 See on 2 Kings 17. 6, 18, And he terms them here Brethren, co ler chem know, char they, and 1ſr4e!
proceeded from the ſame ſtock, and therefore had no realon 10.
EXPeR, bur it (hyuld fare alike with them, ſeeing their fins were alike, 2 Kings 21. 13, 14, &®-. £ Viz, The Ten Tribes, I/z. 7. 1,2 compared ; calied by this Name often, becauſe thai was the matt numerous and potent of all of chem, Fcroboam rheir firſt king was of chat Tribe. :
16 Therefore * x pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make iaterceſſioa co me: for 1 wilt act hear thee.
4 Gad tucoids his Propher to pray for vhem in any kind, by any Cry or larerceſſion; or running upon me, which thews that God 15 ceſolved ro root thzm our, ſeeing he will admur of no [ncerceſſ1- 01: And according as he charged Moſes, Erod. 32. 10, and the hike Cbap, 11. £4. For God had beea wont to ſufter himſelf ro be prevailed with by the Mediation of his Servants, as of Msjes, Exod. 32-11, 14. Num). 14. 19, 20+ Burnow he would admir of no [n- rercelitan. See Ex2&; 14: 149 20+ and Chap. 15. 1. and the next words. This charge ſeems co be laid upoa the Propher, partly ro take off ce envy of the People from him, when rhey knew he was commanded co do no othe: wiſe, partly ro embolden him 1n this unpleafing work, laying aiide all compatiion. Bur certainly che Prophec did pray that God would mind his Covenaac in ſaving a Remnanc, though nor that God would revoke his Decree 3 and x0 fave the body of chem. | : |
17 Seelt x thou not what they do 1n the cities of;
Judah, and inthe ſtreets of y Jeruſalem ?
x q. 4, How canſt chon pats along the Streers, but thou muſt} needs be an Eye-wirneſs of chetr ADominarions co thy no ſmall} trouble and ſorrow, as Sodom was to Lot, 2 Pet. 2. 8. therefore, how cantt chou plead wich me on chelr behalt ? How canft chou e1- | ther pray for chem or I pity them ? y In City and Country, See, Cap. 2.28. and 11+ 13, | 18 The children gather a wood, and the fathers! kindle the 6 fire, and che women knead cheir dough!
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Chap. 44. 17. See Matth, 24. 38. Every one in the Family doth ſomewhat towards 1t. 4 Or ſticks, for the word 15 plural, and fo uſed, Numb. 15.32, 33. an employment, if we underſtand ſmall Sticks, proper tor Children 3 1f greater Wood, ſuirable ro Youth, who excel 1n ſtrength, and may be underftood by Children and young ones, b They heat the Oven, Hearth or Stone on which chey were baked. © Prepare afl rhe Materials, of which ro make Cakes ; probably they were of ſome particular ſhape, or had ſome peculiar 1mpretiion of ſome of their Gods {tamped upon them,
SEREMIAH.
| þ Pat For 1% Revenge by a Metonymy of the c44ſe for the offe2. 3 This exprefſerh his anger boiled up to rhe height, Chap. 4. 4. þ A Metaphor? raken from viel-nt Reins, See Chap. ©. rr. and in4y in particular allude ro thoſe ſhowers. of fire thac were peur- ed out upon S910n, Gen. 19. 24, { Theſe particulars are enys merared to expreſs an utter deiolation and ruine, See Chap. 4, 25. and it is chreacned againſt theſe Crearures, which are 10no» cent, hecauſe they were made for the uſe of Man, partly thar it
might ſhew, how greatly God is offended, and that it ſhould work . upon chem not only a grearet fear of his Judgments, tur a greater
ſhame for cheir tin, that they ſhould occation ſuch tufferings upon ' the Innocent Creature, Ron. 8. 20,22, 1 He follows the thieat= ; ning with ſhewing the irreſiſtible of 1c, his reſoſution 15 not ro be
revoked, Chap. 4, 4. and this 1s ſuitable to che Charge he gave ' the Propher, Ver. 16.
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