Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 42:21
And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing] for the which he hath sent me unto you.
Verse 21. Ye have not obeyed the voice] Though ye have requested to have this particular revelation of the Divine will, and promised obedience, yet have ye not done one thing for which ye sent me to inquire of the Lord.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
I have been faithful to you, I went according to your desire to inquire of God for you, I had his will revealed to me in your case, and now I have as faithfully told you what it is;
but ye have not obeyed. How did Jeremiah know this, for they had not yet declared their minds to him? He had either learned it from their discourses during the ten days which God had made him to wait for the revelation, or he had learned it from some contemptuous behaviour of them when he delivered it, or (which is most probable) God had aforehand told it to him.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
21. declared itnamely, thedivine will.
I . . . but yeantithesis.I have done my part; but ye do not yours. It is nofault of mine that ye act not rightly.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And [now] I have this day declared [it] unto you,…. The whole will of God, and had not kept back anything from them:
but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God; or, “ye will not obey” c; the prophet knew they would not obey the command of the Lord not to go into Egypt, either by his conversation with them during the ten days the answer of the Lord was deferred, by which he plainly saw they were determined to go into Egypt; or by their countenances and behaviour, while he was delivering the Lord’s message to them; by what he observed in them, he knew what was said was not agreeable to them, and that their mind was to go into Egypt: or he had this, as others think, by divine revelation; though without that he knew the cast of this people, and what a rebellious and disobedient people they were, and had been, never obeying the voice of the Lord:
nor any [thing] for which he hath sent me unto you: not anyone particular thing respecting this present affair; nor indeed any of his prophecies had they regarded, with which he had been sent to them before.
c “et tamen non vultis parere”, Vatablus.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
He at length adds, And I have this day declared it to you Here he sets forth his own fidelity, not for the sake of boasting, but that their impiety might be reproved, who at length despised the oracle of God, which they had boasted that they would obey. Ye have not hearkened, he says, to the voice of Jehovah your God, and according to all the things on account of which he hath sent me to you. The Prophet again confirms the truth, that it was their own fault that the Jews did not follow what was right, and also what was for their good, for he had faithfully delivered to them what God had commanded. He now adds, —
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Jer 42:21 And [now] I have this day declared [it] to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God, nor any [thing] for the which he hath sent me unto you.
Ver. 21. But ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord. ] Nay, you take a clean contrary course, as if ye would despitefully spit in the face of Heaven, and wrestle a fall with the Almighty.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
this day declared = declared this day. See note on Deu 4:26.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
I have: Deu 11:26, Deu 11:27, Eze 2:7, Eze 3:17, Act 20:20, Act 20:26, Act 20:27
but: Jer 7:24-27, Deu 29:19, Zec 7:11, Zec 7:12
Reciprocal: Exo 8:29 – deal Jdg 6:10 – ye have Eze 14:3 – should
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jer 42:21. In rejecting the warning of the prophet, the people were accused of disobeying the voice of the Lord God.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
The prophet anticipated, because of the people’s previous negative reaction to his preaching, that they were not going to obey. So he warned them again that they would die in Egypt if they went there.
The leaders of the remnant rejected the Lord’s direction (Jer 43:1-7).