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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 2:20

Broken — The bondage and tyranny that thou wert under in old time in Egypt, as also divers times besides. Tree — Under these shades idolaters thought there lay some hidden deity. Wanderest — The word properly signifies, making hast from one tree to another, or from one idol to another. Playing — Committing idolatry, which is a spiritual harlotry, Jeremiah 3:1.

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See also Jeremiah 2:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 2:20. _OF OLD TIME I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE_] It is thought by able critics that the verbs should be read in the _second person_ _singular, THOU hast broken thy yoke, THOU hast burst thy...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    TRANSGRESS - Rather, as in marg. If the “yoke” and “bands” refer to the slavery in Egypt from which Yahweh freed Israel, the sense is - “For of old time I Yahweh broke thy yoke, I burst thy bands,” no...

  • 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

    I WILL NOT TRANSGRESS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 19:8). TRANSGRESS. Hebrew. _'abar._. Homonym. Here. serve; else where. transgress. Not the same word as in verses: Jeremiah 1:29. HIGH HILL......

  • 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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands_ mg. _thou hast_is doubtless right. So LXX and Vulg. The identity of the archaic form of the pronominal ending for the 2nd person fem. with the ordinary 1s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR OF OLD TIME, &C.— _I indeed long since have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; but thou saidst, I will not serve: upon every high hill, and under every green tree, I will lay myself down, and p...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    D. Pointed Accusation Jeremiah 2:20-28 TRANSLATION (20) For from of old you have broken your yoke, you have burst your bands and you said, I will not serve. For upon every high hill and under every g...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 harlot. I. The...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:20 broken (f-6) Or 'I had broken.'...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    See Intro, respecting worship in 'high places,' simultaneously with that of Jehovah, which they thought a lawful combination. I HAVE BROKEN.. _and_ BURST, etc.] RM 'thou hast broken,' etc., i.e. thou...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE. — Better, with the LXX. and Vulg., _thou hast broken thy yoke_ — _i.e.,_ cast off all allegiance and restraint. The Authorised Version, which follows the received Hebrew readin...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י מֵ עֹולָ֞ם שָׁבַ֣רְתִּי עֻלֵּ֗ךְ נִתַּ֨קְתִּי֙...

  • 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

    For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, (f) I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. (f)...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thou. Septuagint. Yet Hebrew and Chaldean have, "I have permissively broken," or foretold this infidelity._...

  • 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

    As there are two readings in Hebrew, two meanings are given; for some think the verb to be, עבד _ob _e_d, _and others, עבר _ob _e_r, _the two letters being very similar. If we read, “I will not pass o...

  • 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

    FOR OF OLD TIME I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE, AND BURST THY BANDS,.... The yoke of the people, as the Targum expresses it, that was upon their necks, and the bands in which they were bound by them; referrin...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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 harlot._ Ver....

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

    _For of old time I have broken thy yoke_ That is, I have delivered thee from the bondage and tyranny that thou wast under, of old time, in Egypt; as also divers times besides. See the book of Judges....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For of old time I have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands, rather, "For from ancient times thou hast broken thy yoke and burst thy bands," namely, the laws and ordinances of God; AND THOU SAIDST, I W...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SIN OF IDOLATRY...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    TRANSGRESS: Or, serve...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    20-28 Notwithstanding all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. Men are often as much under the power of their unbridled desires and their sinful lusts, a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OF OLD TIME I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE, i.e. the bondage and tyranny that thou wert under in old time in Egypt, as also divers times besides, as appears through the Book of Judges. The Hebrew elam, that s...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 2:20 old H5769 broken H7665 (H8804) yoke H5923 burst H5423 (H8765) bonds H4147 said H559 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THEY HAD BROKEN FREE FROM YHWH TO WORSHIP FALSE GODS AND HAD THEREBY BECOME DEFILED WITH A DEFILEMENT AND A DEGENERACY THAT THEY COULD NOT REMOVE, WHILE STILL INCREDIBLY CLAIMING THAT THEY HAD NOT BRO...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 2:20 At the time of the exodus God broke Israel’s BONDS. He set the Israelites free, yet they refused to SERVE him. Indeed, UNDER EVERY GREEN TREE, the places wh

  • 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 Kings 12:32; 1 Samuel 12:10; Deuteronomy 12:2; Deuteronomy 15:15;...

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