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Verse Jeremiah 2:26. _AS THE THIEF IS ASHAMED_] As the pilferer is
confounded when he is caught in the fact; so shalt thou, thy kings,
princes, priests, and prophets, be confounded, when God shall arr...
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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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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...
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THEIR KINGS. Showing that Judah was still in the Land, but in
Jehoiakim's reign.
THEIR PRINCES. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "and
their princes", perfecting the Figure of speech _Po...
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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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Israel, though insensible now to their disgrace, will realise it
presently and all classes will be filled with confusion (as a detected
thief) when the penalty arrives. Cp. Isaiah 1:29 ff.
_ashamed_ d...
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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...
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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel
ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and
their prophets,
IS ASHAMED - is put to shame.
THIEF - (, "He...
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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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AS THE THIEF... — The words point to the sense of shame as already
felt, and as therefore bringing with it the possibility of repentance.
Once they gloried in their false worship; now they feel as if...
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כְּ בֹ֤שֶׁת גַּנָּב֙ כִּ֣י יִמָּצֵ֔א
כֵּ֥ן הֹ
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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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As the (n) thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of
Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests,
and their prophets,
(n) As a thief will not acknowledge his fault...
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_Taken. Juda affected still to be very pious, ver. 23._...
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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 render the words in the future tense, “So ashamed shall be the
house of Israel,” etc.; and they think that the Prophet is speaking
here of the punishment which was impending over the people: but...
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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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AS THE THIEF IS ASHAMED WHEN BE IS FOUND,.... Taken in the fact, or
convicted of it; that is, as the Targum explains it, one that has been
accounted faithful, and is found a thief; for, otherwise, tho...
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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel
ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and
their prophets,
Ver. 26. _As the thief is ashamed when he is foun...
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_As the thief is ashamed_ As the thief has nothing to say for himself,
but is perfectly confounded when he is taken in the very act, so the
house of Israel hath no manner of plea wherewith to defend o...
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THE SIN OF IDOLATRY...
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As the thief is ashamed when he is found, put to shame by the
evidences of his guilt, SO IS THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ASHAMED; THEY, THEIR
KINGS, THEIR PRINCES, AND THEIR PRIESTS, AND THEIR PROPHETS, leader...
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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...
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ASHAMED WHEN HE IS FOUND; not ashamed of his sin of theft, but that he
is found, that his shifts and blinds would serve him no longer,
especially if he have had the reputation of an honest man. THE HO...
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Jeremiah 2:26 thief H1590 ashamed H1322 found H4672 (H8735) house
H1004 Israel H3478 ashamed H3001 (H8689) kings...
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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...
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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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Daniel 9:6; Ezra 9:7; Isaiah 1:29; Jeremiah 2:36; Jeremiah 3:24;...