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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Jeremiah 2:3

Increase; most desirable, Osee ix. 10. God punished those who attempted to injure his people: yet they abandoned his service.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 2:3. _ISRAEL_ WAS _HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD_] Fully _consecrated_ to his service. _THE FIRST FRUITS OF HIS INCREASE_] They were as wholly the Lord's, as the first fruits were the proper...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Render: “Israel” is an offering consecrated to Yahweh, His firstfruits of increase. The firstfruits were God’s consecrated property, His portion of the whole harvest. Pagan, i. e., unconsecrated, nati...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH 2:1 TO JEREMIAH 4:4. These Chapter s belong to the time of Josiah (626ff. B.C.), and contain some of the earliest prophecies of Jeremiah. Their central thought is the faithlessness of the peo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 19:6). THE FIRSTFRUITS, &C, which were consecrated. Ref to Pentateuch (Exodus 23:19; Deuteronomy 18:4;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Israel was holiness unto the Lord, the firstfruits of his increase_ Cp. Exodus 19:6; Deuteronomy 8:6; Deuteronomy 14:2; cp. Jeremiah 26:18

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ALL THAT DEVOUR HIM SHALL OFFEND— _Are trespassers,_ or _shall rue it._ Or, _All who desired to destroy him were destroyed; evils came upon them._ Houbigant....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER FIVE SERMONS FROM THE REIGN OF JOSIAH Jeremiah 2:1 to Jeremiah 6:30 Chapter s 2-6 contain several discourses uttered at different times in the early years of Jeremiah's prophetic ministry. S...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD - i:e., was consecrated t...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FIRSTFRUITS OF.. INCREASE] i.e. the consecrated part. ALL THAT DEVOUR, etc.] The priest and his family alone were to eat of the first fruits (Leviticus 22:10; Leviticus 22:16). If any unhallowed perso...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5) The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness to Jehovah. 1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the people of Hi...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. — The thought was that expressed in the inscription on the gold plate worn on the high priest’s forehead (Exodus 28:36), and in the term “holy thing” (Leviticus 22:10; Matthew...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    קֹ֤דֶשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לַ יהוָ֔ה רֵאשִׁ֖ית _תְּבוּאָתֹ֑ו_† כָּל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    UNGRATEFUL FORGETFULNESS Jeremiah 2:1-8; Jeremiah 26:1-24; Jeremiah 27:1-22; Jeremiah 28:1-17; Jeremiah 29:1-32; Jeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44 God regarded

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem. This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Israel [was] (c) holiness to the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all (d) that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. (c) Chosen above all others to serve the...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader to observe, the graciousness of God's dealings with his people, even when he is about to reprove them. He puts them in mind of their past affection, and when matters were different w...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    God here more clearly reprobates the ingratitude of the people: and first he enumerates his favors by which he had bound the people for ever to himself; and secondly, he shews how malignantly the peop...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem. It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness a...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    ISRAEL WAS HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD,.... When first brought out of Egypt into the wilderness, by the Lord's choice and separation of them to be a holy people to him above all others; by covenant with hi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Israel [was] holiness unto the LORD, [and] the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD. Ver. 3. _Israel was holiness unto the Lord._]...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Jer. 2:2, 3. "I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown." Israel was holiness to the Lord, and...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem_ In the most public parts of the city, that all may hear; _saying, Thus saith the Lord_ I deliver his message, and not my own. I come to you with a commission from...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Israel was holiness unto the Lord, consecrated to Him and to His service, AND THE FIRST-FRUITS OF HIS INCREASE, the people chosen by Him as the first among all nations, produced as the first in the ga...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Those who begin well, but do not persevere, will justly be upbraided with their hopeful and promising beginnings. Those who desert religion, commonly oppose it more than those who never knew it....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    ISRAEL WAS HOLINESS, or HOLY, the abstract for the concrete, i.e. a people dedicated to God; thus the word is used LEVITICUS 21:7, LEVITICUS 27:14; set apart from other people for myself by peculiar l...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 2:3 Israel H3478 holiness H6944 LORD H3068 firstfruits H7225 increase H8393 devour H398 (H8802) offend H816 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    YHWH IS SEEKING TO CALL HIS PEOPLE BACK TO THEIR FIRST-LOVE (JEREMIAH 2:1). YHWH now sums up His purpose for calling Jeremiah in terms of a restoration of His people to their wilderness first-love. He...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying, Thus saith the LORD: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Jeremiah 2:1. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD, I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousal...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ YOUTHFUL RELIGION I. The rich and glowing description of youthful piety here given. 1. Ardent affection. 2. Union of the soul to Christ. 3. A going a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH 2:1 Israel’s Covenantal Adultery. These five related messages were probably delivered during Josiah’s reign (Jeremiah 3:6). Jeremiah declares that God’s chosen people commit spiritual adulter...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:3 ISRAEL WAS HOLY TO THE LORD, set apart for his purposes, just as Jeremiah was set apart for the Lord’s purposes in his role as a prophet ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses (Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald (and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2); Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is cal...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 2:9; Acts 9:4; Acts 9:5; Amos 6:1; Deuteronomy 14:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Holiness — A people dedicated to God. As — As the first fruits were holy to God, so was Israel. Devour — All that were injurious to him. Offend — Were liable to punishment. Evil — Evil was inflicted o...

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