What is the context?
The account is placed near the beginning of Jehoiakim’s reign, moving back from the fourth-year setting in chapter 25. Jeremiah must speak in the temple courtyard to people coming from Judah’s towns.
The Lord commands the complete message because the people may hear and turn. The warning’s purpose includes the possibility of the threatened disaster being withdrawn.
The condition repeats the need to hear God’s Law and His servants. Refusal will make the temple like Shiloh and the city a curse among the nations.
The similarity to the temple warning in chapter 7 gives the scene its theological setting, but the reader need not invent a certain day-by-day sequence joining every account.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley reads the public setting as the place where people hear the warning and face its challenge. The message’s completeness is not permission for a preacher to identify every personal opinion with something God has commanded. Its content is the word Jeremiah is actually given.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
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