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THE WAY - Either, the journey through the wilderness, or the way of
holiness....
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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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HE LED THEE. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:12)....
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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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_when he led thee by the way_ If the text be right, the reference is
to wilderness journeyings. But there can be little doubt that the
words (omitted by LXX) have arisen from a scribe's error in writi...
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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...
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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken
the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
THOU HAST FORSAKEN - literally, 'Has not thy forsaking the Lord,
etc., procured t...
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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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HAST THOU NOT PROCURED THIS...? — The secret cause of the calamities
is brought to light. Jehovah was leading Israel, but Israel has chosen
another path, and so has procured sorrow upon sorrow to hims...
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הֲ לֹוא ־זֹ֖את תַּעֲשֶׂה ־לָּ֑ךְ
עָזְבֵךְ֙ אֶ
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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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Hast thou not procured this to thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the
LORD thy God, when he (b) led thee by the way?
(b) Showing that God would have still led them correctly, if they
would have foll...
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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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Now follows the cause; the Prophet, after having shewn that Israel
were forsaken by God, now mentions the reason why it so happened, _Has
not this done it for thee? _Some read in the second person, “H...
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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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HAST THOU NOT PROCURED THIS UNTO THYSELF,.... All this desolation and
destruction, both from the Egyptians and the Babylonians; their sin
was the cause of it, their idolatry and forsaking the Lord the...
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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken
the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Ver. 17. _Hast thou not procured this to thyself?_] The same may the
Lord say to ev...
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_Hast thou not procured this unto thyself?_ Are not all these
calamities owing to thy sins, thy known and wilful sins? By their
sinful confederacies with the nations, and especially their conformity
t...
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Israel's Punishment and its Cause...
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Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, the Israelites having
brought this calamity upon themselves, IN THAT THOU HAST FORSAKEN THE
LORD, THY GOD, WHEN HE LED THEE BY THE WAY? on the good path of Hi...
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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...
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HAST THOU NOT PROCURED THIS UNTO THYSELF? here God by his prophet
shows that they may thank themselves for all that is hastening upon
them. See NUMBERS 32:23. IN THAT THOU HAST FORSAKEN THE LORD: here...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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 Chronicles 28:9; 2 Chronicles 7:19; 2 Chronicles 7:20; Deuteronomy
28:15;...
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When — By the conduct of providence in the wilderness, keeping thee
from all dangers....