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Jeremiah 23:23-24 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 23 · verses 23–24
23Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off? 24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.Jeremiah 23:23-24 · King James Version
What Jeremiah 23:23-24 means
God is answering prophets who were telling people whatever they wanted to hear. Am I a God at hand, and not a God afar off is a question with an edge on it — you can't get far enough away to work unobserved. Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him. The comfort and the warning are the same fact.
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Jeremiah 23:23-24 in context
21I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
25I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.
26How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;
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Key words (Strong's)
- placesmiçtârproperly, a concealerH4565 →
- heavenshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- saithnᵉʼuman oracleH5002 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- handqârôwbnearH7138 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- hideçâtharto hide , literally or figurativelyH5641 →
- fillmâlêʼfull or fillingH4392 →
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Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God's true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-32