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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 23:28 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 23:28 |
Strong Concordance |
The prophet [05030] that hath a dream [02472], let him tell [05608] a dream [02472]; and he that hath my word [01697], let him speak [01696] my word [01697] faithfully [0571]. What is the chaff [08401] to the wheat [01250]? saith [05002] the LORD [03068]. |
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King James |
The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
God answers the objection which might be stated, "What, then, must we do, when lies are spoken as truths, and prophets oppose prophets?" Do the same as when wheat is mixed with chaff: do not reject the wheat because of the chaff mixed with it, but discriminate between the false and the true revelations. The test is adherence to, or forgetfulness of, Me and My law (Jer 23:27).
that hath a dream--that pretends to have a divine communication by dream, let him tell it "faithfully," that it may be compared with "my word" (Co2 4:2). The result will be the former (both the prophets and their fictions) will soon be seen to be chaff; the latter (the true prophets and the word of God in their mouth) wheat (Psa 1:4; Hos 13:3). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
A dream ... faithfully - Rather, as "a dream"... as truth. The dream is but a dream, and is to be told as such, but God's word is to be spoken as certain and absolute truth.
The dreams are the chaff, worthless, with nothing in them; the wheat, the pure grain after it is cleansed and winnowed is God's word. What have these two in common? |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| What is the wheat - There is as much difference between my will and their dreams, as there is betwixt the chaff and the wheat. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord - Do not mingle these equivocal matters with positive revelations. Do not consider a dream, even from a prophet, as that positive inspiration which my prophets receive when their reason, judgment, and spiritual feelings are all in full and in regular exercise. Mix none of your own devices with my doctrines. |
3 Therefore they shall be as the morning [01242] cloud [06051], and as the early [07925] dew [02919] that passeth away [01980], as the chaff [04671] that is driven with the whirlwind [05590] out of the floor [01637], and as the smoke [06227] out of the chimney [0699].
4 The ungodly [07563] are not so: but are like the chaff [04671] which the wind [07307] driveth away [05086].
2 But [235] have renounced [550] the hidden things [2927] of dishonesty [152], not [3361] walking [4043] in [1722] craftiness [3834], nor [3366] handling [1389] the word [3056] of God [2316] deceitfully [1389]; but [235] by manifestation [5321] of the truth [225] commending [4921] ourselves [1438] to [4314] every [3956] man's [444] conscience [4893] in the sight [1799] of God [2316].
27 Which think [02803] to cause my people [05971] to forget [07911] my name [08034] by their dreams [02472] which they tell [05608] every man [0376] to his neighbour [07453], as their fathers [01] have forgotten [07911] my name [08034] for Baal [01168].