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YOUR OWN SWORD HATH DETOURED YOUR PROPHETS - An allusion probably to
Manasseh 2 Kings 21:16. Death was the usual fate of the true prophet
Nehemiah 9:26; Matthew 23:37....
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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)...
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THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for
Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no
penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that o...
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DEVOURED YOUR PROPHETS. See 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 18:13. 2Ki 21:16. 2
Chronicles 24:21. Compare Matthew 23:37;...
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Israel's sin and obstinacy under punishment
14 17. Co. points out that Jeremiah 2:13 connects naturally with
Jeremiah 2:18. The cisterns from which Israel has sought water proving
unavailable, she has...
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_your children_ not literally such, nor yet young men slain in battle,
but equivalent to the frequent expression "children of thy people"
(e.g. Ezekiel 3:11; Ezekiel 33:2; Ezekiel 33:12;...
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YOUR OWN SWORD HATH DEVOURED YOUR PROPHETS— That is to say, "You
yourselves have put your prophets to death for reproving you." Thus
Asa and Joash were put to death in the reign of Manasseh; see 1 Kin...
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E. Pungent Argument Jeremiah 2:29-37
TRANSLATION
(29) Why do you continue to complain to Me? All of you have
transgressed against Me (oracle of the LORD). (30) In vain I have
smitten your sons; they...
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In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction:
your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
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Your chil...
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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...
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YOUR PROPHETS] Such as Isaiah (said to have been sawn asunder) and
Zechariah son of Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:20), and those whom Jezebel
(1 Kings 18:13) or Manasseh (2 Kings 21:16) slew: cp....
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YOUR OWN SWORD HATH DEVOURED YOUR PROPHETS. — So in the long reign
of Manasseh, the prophets who rebuked him had to do so at the risk of
their lives. Isaiah, as the tradition ran, had been foremost am...
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לַ † שָּׁוְא֙ הִכֵּ֣יתִי אֶת
־בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם מוּסָ֖ר...
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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...
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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...
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In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no
correction: your (r) own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
(r) That is, you have killed your prophets, that exhort...
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I include all these verses under one view, as the doctrine is one and
the same, though varied with several similitudes. But the whole is
intended to show, to what a degenerate state the Church was red...
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Some expound the beginning of this verse as though the meaning were,
— that God chastised the Jews on account of their folly, because
they habituated themselves to falsehoods: but the latter clause do...
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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...
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IN VAIN HAVE I SMITTEN YOUR CHILDREN,.... Or, "for vanity" g; for vain
speaking, for making vain oaths and vows; so it is explained in the
Talmud h; but the sense is, that the rod of chastisement was...
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In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction:
your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Ver. 30. _In vain have I smitten your children._] My hammers hav...
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_Wherefore will ye plead with me?_ Why do you insist upon your
innocence? See Jeremiah 2:35. Why do you lay claim to my former
promises, as if you had not forfeited your title to them by your sins?
_I...
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THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
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In vain have I smitten your children, in endeavoring to bring them to
their senses; they received no correction, they would not permit
themselves to be guided on the right path; YOUR OWN SWORD HATH
DE...
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29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God,
but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it
their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of dark...
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YOUR CHILDREN; either your posterity, that you breed up like
yourselves; or rather, your inhabitants in every city, they being
frequently called the children of such a city, or such a place:
_children...
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Jeremiah 2:30 vain H7723 chastened H5221 (H8689) children H1121
received H3947 (H8804) correction H4148 sword H2719
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YHWH CHALLENGES HIS PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING AS THEY
ARE (JEREMIAH 2:29).
YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their
favour when all they had previously done...
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Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy
bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high
hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
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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...
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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...
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_How canst thou say, I am not polluted._
SELF-VINDICATING SINNERS REPROVED
I. The self-vindicating ways of sinners.
1. Direct denial (Genesis 4:9).
2. Vain excuse (1 Samuel 15:13).
3. Hypocritical...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Chronicles
24:21;...
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Children — Your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently
called the children of such a city. Correction — Instruction: though
they were corrected, yet they would not be instructed. Your sword...