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Text -- Jeremiah 11:1-8 (NET)
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The People Have Violated Their Covenant with God
11:1 The Lord said to Jeremiah :
11:2 “Hear the terms of the covenant I made with Israel and pass them on to the people of Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem .
11:3 Tell them that the Lord , the God of Israel , says , ‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse .
11:4 Those are the terms that I charged your ancestors to keep when I brought them out of Egypt , that place which was like an iron-smelting furnace . I said at that time, “Obey me and carry out the terms of the agreement exactly as I commanded you. If you do , you will be my people and I will be your God .
11:5 Then I will keep the promise I swore on oath to your ancestors to give them a land flowing with milk and honey .” That is the very land that you still live in today .’” And I responded , “Amen ! Let it be so, Lord !”
11:6 The Lord said to me, “Announce all the following words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem : ‘Listen to the terms of my covenant with you and carry them out !
11:7 For I solemnly warned your ancestors to obey me . I warned them again and again, ever since I delivered them out of Egypt until this very day .
11:8 But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart . So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do .’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
JOSIAH |
TABERNACLE, B |
Blessing |
Milk |
Covenant |
God |
Prophecy |
DEUTERONOMY |
Iron |
Wicked |
Impenitence |
Prophets |
Oath |
Contingencies |
HONEY |
IMAGINATION |
PREACHER; PREACHING |
Commandments |
Furnace |
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NET Notes: Jer 11:1 Heb “The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying.” The proposed translation is more in keeping with contemporary English idiom. ...
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NET Notes: Jer 11:2 For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
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NET Notes: Jer 11:3 Heb “Cursed is the person who does not listen to the terms of this covenant.” “This covenant” is further qualified in the foll...
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NET Notes: Jer 11:4 Obey me and carry out the terms of the agreement…and I will be your God. This refers to the Mosaic law which was instituted at Sinai and renewed...
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NET Notes: Jer 11:5 The word amen is found at the end of each of the curses in Deut 27 where the people express their agreement with the appropriateness of the curse for ...
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NET Notes: Jer 11:6 Heb “the terms of this covenant.” However, this was a separate message and the ambiguity of “this” could still cause some conf...
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