Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 7:24

24 But they hearkened not, nor enclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart; and went backward, and not forward.

It notes something of an hinger degree of non-attention, than bare not hearkening, viz. their not listening that they might obey, what they hear chap. 7.26. & 11.8. noting not only their slightness, but their stiffness.

Or stubbornness, see chap. 3.17.

Like resty beasts, see chap. 2.27. a sign of their contempt, implying either 1 They were worse by their admonitions and corrections, and so nothing did thrive with them; or 2 From the very first they have gone farther and farther from me, as ver. 25, 26. 3 Or else depending upon their outward services, they set not my commands before their eyes, but cast my true worship behind their backs, Mat. 23.23.

Marginal references: Or, stubborness.; Heb. were.; chap. 32.33▪