Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets,.... False prophets, as the Targum. These words are not directed to the Jews, but are a continuation of what the messengers of the nations should say to their…
Barnes' Notes
Dreamers - literally, as in the margin. People dream dreams for themselves, and go to diviners to ask the explanation of them.
Some difficulty occurs in the date of this prophecy. This word is said to come to Jeremiah in the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim (Jer 27:1), and yet the messengers, to whom he is to deliver the…
Cambridge Bible
dreams those which the diviners, etc. professed to have had. Cp. Jer 23:25; Jer 29:8. We should have expected rather dreamers(so LXX Syr. Targ.), and MT. may have been introduced here from the analogy…
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