Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 7:2 - 7:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Jeremiah 7:2 - 7:2


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Stand in the gate, viz. the east gate, which was chiefly frequented; this being the public place of going out and coming in, and where the people were then wont to assemble, Jer_26:2,10; and he is said to stand, because he was to execute the office of a preacher, Jer_26:2, not of a judge, where the posture would rather have been sitting.



The Lord’s house; the temple, Jer_7:4,10.



Proclaim there: the place notes the vanity of their confidence, who, notwithstanding all their provocations, yet placed their safety much in the privileges of the temple, glorying much in that; and the manner. proclaiming, signifies both the authority by which he spake, and the divulging of what he spake plainly and boldly, which as it was in a public place, viz. the court of the people, not the court of the priests, (from which it is distinguished, 2Ch_4:9) and therefore said at these gates, viz. the several gates that were in the wall of the court, of which there were six, three on the south side and three on the north; so, possibly, it might be at some public time of the people’s resorting thither from all quarters, Psa_122:4,5, when all the males were to meet, Exo_23:17; see Joh_7:37; and therefore said,



all ye of Judah. This word; the message that I send thee with.



The word of the Lord: see Jer_2:4.