Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 29:19

19 Because they have not hearkned to my words, saith the LORD , which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early, and sending them , but ye would not hear saith the LORD .

A contempt of the word of the Lord was the cause of this peoples ruine, and will be the cause of ruine to any people. See chap. 7.25. and 11.7, 8. and 17.23.

Lest they should say that they onely disobeyed the Prophets▪ God mindeth them, that in not hearkning to them, they did not hearken to him. The same thing Christ saith of the Gospel Ministers, Luk. 10.16. The not believing, or not obeying, what Ministers teach not in a due discharge of their office revealing the Will of God, is no contempt of God, but of them who for that cause deserve to be contemned, but supposing that what Ministers deliver be the Mind and Will of God revealed in holy Writ and but a true explication, and application of that, not to hearken to God, and not to hearken to them is the same thing.

Ye wilfully refused to believe them, speaking the Truth to you in my name, and to obey those monitions they gave you by my direction. All this was a not hearing God.

Marginal references: chap. 25.4▪ & 32.33.