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Jeremiah 2:14

Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he spoiled? The question, whether asked by the prophet or directly by God, expresses surprise that the nation which was once God's favorite should now be left at the mercy of the enemy like a worthless slave. Whence this change in fortunes? Whence this unhappy condition?

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See also Jeremiah 2:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 2:14. Is _ISRAEL A SERVANT?_] Is he a _slave_ purchased with money, or a _servant born in the family_? He is a _son_ himself. If so, then, _why is he spoiled_? Not because God has not s...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    It was Israel’s glory to be Yahweh’s servant Jeremiah 30:10, and slaves born in the house were more prized than those bought with money as being more faithful Genesis 14:14. Cannot Yahweh guard His ow...

  • 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

    ISRAEL'S FALSE RELIGION. Israel has forfeited the privileges of a son, and incurred disaster by forsaking Yahweh for the sensuous worship of the Baalim (_cf._ Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 2:28). Jeremiah 2...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SERVANT?... SLAVE? They were treated as such by Assyria, and afterward by Egypt. SPOILED. become. spoil....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn_slave?] An emphatic negative is the reply expected, as in Jeremiah 2:31. Israel is not a slave but a _son_. Why then is he spoiled? If (which is however doubtful...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IS ISRAEL A SERVANT?— "Is he of a condition to be delivered as a prey to his enemies? Is he of those people whom God regards as slaves and strangers? Is he not the son, the chosen and peculiar people...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    C. Penetrating Analysis Jeremiah 2:9-19 TRANSLATION (9) So yet I present My case against you (oracle of the LORD), and with your children I must contend. (10) For pass over to the isles of Kittim and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? IS HE A HOME-BORN SLAVE? - No. (, "Thus saith the Lord (Yahweh), Israel is my son, even my first-born.") ; ;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _Is_ ISRAEL, etc.] The meaning here probably is, HOW is it that Israel, the people of God, has become a slave to neighbouring powers? Jeremiah 2:17 gives the answer....

  • 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

    IS ISRAEL A SERVANT? — The word “servant,” we must remember, had become, through its frequent use in Isaiah (Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 41:8, _et al._)_,_ a word not of shame, but honour; and of all servants...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַ עֶ֨בֶד֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם ־יְלִ֥יד בַּ֖יִת ה

  • 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...

  • 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

    [Is] Israel a (u) servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he laid waste? (u) Have I ordered them like servants and not like dearly beloved children? (Exodus 4:22) therefore it is their fault only...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Slave. From such, labour and tribute were required, Matthew xvii. 24., and John viii. 33._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    These verses are to be read together; for the Prophet first shews that Israel was not as to his original condition miserable, but that this happened through a new cause, and then he mentions the cause...

  • 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

    IS ISRAEL A SERVANT?.... That he does not abide in the house, in his own land, but is carried captive, becomes subject to others, and is used as a slave; so the Targum, "as a servant;'' is he not th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Jeremiah 2:14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled? Ver. 14. _Is Israel a servant?_] _sc., _ Bought with money. _a_ Is he a homeborn slave?] _Verna,_ a slave by birth...

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

    _Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave?_ Is he of a condition to be delivered as a prey to his enemies? Is he of those people whom God regards as slaves and strangers? These interrogations impl...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SPOILED?: _ Heb._ become a spoil...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    14-19 Is Israel a servant? No, they are the seed of Abraham. We may apply this spiritually: Is the soul of man a slave? No, it is not; but has sold its own liberty, and enslaved itself to divers lust...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IS ISRAEL A SERVANT? IS HE A HOME-BORN SLAVE? did I ever account him so? or did I not rather always reckon him my first-born? so some, as JEREMIAH 2:31. But it may better relate to his sad condition a...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 2:14 Israel H3478 servant H5650 homeborn H1004 H3211 Why H4069 plundered H957 Israel -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    IT IS POINTED OUT THAT IT IS BECAUSE OF THEIR INCREDIBLE BEHAVIOUR THAT THEY HAVE UNDERGONE, AND ARE UNDERGOING, THEIR PRESENT DISTRESSES (JEREMIAH 2:14). It is apparent from the words that follow tha...

  • 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

    _Is Israel a servant?_ is he a home-born slave? why is he spoiled? ISRAEL A HOME-BORN SLAVE Is this a contemptuous inquiry?--Israel a servant, Israel a home-born slave. Is there not scorn underlying...

  • 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 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

    Ecclesiastes 2:7; Exodus 4:22; Genesis 15:3; Isaiah 50:1...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    A slave — Slave is here added to home — born to express the baseness of his service, because the master had power to make those slaves who were born of slaves in his house. Why — Why is he thus tyrann...

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