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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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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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_plead with me_ remonstrate against My wrath. For "plead" see on
Jeremiah 2:9, and cp. Jeremiah 12:1....
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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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Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me,
saith the LORD.
WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME? - i:e., contend with me for
afflicting you (; .)...
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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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WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME? — The reply of the accuser to the
false pleas of the accused. The transgression was too open to be
glossed over. No plea was available but that of a full confession of...
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לָ֥מָּה תָרִ֖יבוּ אֵלָ֑י כֻּלְּכֶ֛ם
פְּשַׁעְתֶּ֥ם בִּ֖י...
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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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Why will (q) ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me,
saith the LORD.
(q) As though I did you injury in punishing you, seeing that your
faults are so evident....
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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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Jeremiah concludes here his previous subject: he says that the Jews
gained nothing by alleging against God that they were innocent, and by
thinking that they could by mere words escape his judgment, a...
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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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WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME?.... Strive and contend, chide,
murmur, and complain, when evil came upon them, as if the Lord dealt
hardly with them, and as if they had never sinned against him; when...
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_Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me,
saith the LORD._
Ver. 29. _Wherefore will ye plead with me?_] Putting me to my proofs.
Is not the case clear enough? Will ye not...
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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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Wherefore will ye plead with Me? contending with the Lord as though He
had no right to punish them. YE ALL HAVE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME,
SAITH THE LORD, forsaking Him in rebellious wickedness....
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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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WHEREFORE WILL YE PLEAD WITH ME? YE ALL: q.d. You are all at my mercy,
why will you contend? all this that I charge you with is clear and
evident, and all makes against you, JEREMIAH 2:23,34. Wherefor...
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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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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:28 LET THEM ARISE. God challenges the
Israelites to have their helpless, lifeless gods save them. After all,
they worship as many GODS as they have cities
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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 9:11; Jeremiah 2:23; Jeremiah 2:35; Jeremiah 3:2; Jeremiah 5:1;...