Jeremiah 7:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 7:17 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 14:23
And they shall comfort you, when ye see their ways and their doings: and ye shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 8:6-18
He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. …
Jeremiah 6:27
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-20)

God had shown them, in the foregoing verses, that the temple and the service of it, of which they boasted and in which they trusted, should not avail to prevent the judgment threatened. But there was another thing which might stand them in some stead, and which yet they had no value for, and that was the prophet’s intercession for them; his prayers would do them more good than their own pleas: now…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Jehovah leaves it to Jeremiah himself to decide, is there not good reason that prayers should not be heard in behalf of such rebels?