Isa 58:1, Jer 7:2, 19:14-15, 20:2-3, 22:1-2, 26:2, 36:10, Mat 21:23 | TSK | STEP | The prophet, being sent to reprove hypocrisy, shews the difference between a counterfeit fast and a true. He declares what promises are due unto godliness, and to the keeping of the sabbath. aloud. Heb. with the throat. spare. lift up. like.

the stocks.{Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, (De 29:22. Isa 1:7; 10:19,) and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which the limbs were distorted into uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, {keephtha} and Jerome, {nervus,} which he explains in his comment as "a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, {vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur.} Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious.

in the high.

37:13; 38:7; Zec 14:10

Pashur.

Ac 4:5-7; 16:30,35-39

hath.

7:32; 19:2,6; Ge 17:5,15; 32:28; Isa 8:3; Ho 1:4-9

Magor-missabib. this is, Fear round about.

10; 6:25; 46:5; 29:29; Ps 31:13; La 2:22

Jeremiah 22:1-2

1 He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats.

10 The judgment of Shallum;

13 of Jehoiakim;

20 and of Coniah.

A.M. cir. 3406. B.C. cir. 598. Go.

21:11; 34:2; 1Sa 15:16-23; 2Sa 12:1; 24:11,12; 1Ki 21:18-20

2Ch 19:2,3; 25:15,16; 33:10; Ho 5:1; Am 7:13; Mr 6:18; Lu 3:19,20

Hear.

29; 13:18; 17:20-27; 19:3; 29:20; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; 28:14

Eze 34:7; Am 7:16

that sittest.

4,30; 17:25; 29:16,17; 36:30; Isa 9:7; Lu 1:32

enter.

7:2; 17:20

Jeremiah 26:2

Stand.

7:2; 19:14; 23:28; 36:10; 2Ch 24:20,21; Lu 19:47,48; 20:1; 21:37,38

Joh 8:2; 18:20; Ac 5:20,21,25,42

court.This was the great outer court, where the people assembled for the purpose of religious worship on ordinary occasions, when they brought no sacrifices; but when they offered a sacrifice, they were to bring it into the inner court, or that of the priests.

all the words.

1:17; 42:4; Isa 58:1,2; Eze 3:10,17-21; Mt 28:20; Ac 20:20,27

diminish.

De 4:2; 12:32; Re 22:19