Jeremiah 17:24
And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
And it shall come to pass,.... Or, "yet it shall come to pass" {f}; so it shall be, notwithstanding all former disobedience and rebellion:
if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD; or, "in hearing hear" {g}; hearken attentively, and readily obey the command given, before mentioned, so as
to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day; to be bought or sold, or to be wrought on or with; and so likewise to carry nothing out of their houses or city, which, though not expressed, is understood as before; and this respects not only the city of Jerusalem, but all other cities and towns in Judea; for the word of the Lord, concerning this matter, was sent to all Judah, the whole land of Judea, Jeremiah 17:20;
but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein; one part of the sanctification of the sabbath lay in a cessation from all servile work, though not wholly, but also in the observance of religious worship, and the one was in order to the other; for, unless they abstained from worldly business, they could not be at leisure to attend divine service.
{f} hyhw "tamen erit", Gataker; "erit autem", Cocceius.
{g} Nwemvt emv "audiendo audiveritis", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt.