20For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.
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But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk. …
Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-22)We have here the answer which Jeremiah was sent to deliver to those who employed him to ask counsel of God. I. It did not come immediately, not till ten days after , Jer. 42:7. They were thus long held in suspense, perhaps, to punish them for their hypocrisy or to show that Jeremiah did not speak of himself, nor what he would, for he could not speak when he would, but must wait for instructions. H…
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