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Verse Jeremiah 2:9. _I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU_] אריב _arib_, I
will maintain my _process_, vindicate my own conduct, and prove the
wickedness of yours....
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PLEAD - The word used by the plaintiff setting forth his accusation in
a law-court (see Job 33:13 note).
WITH YOU - The present generation, who by joining in Manasseh’s
apostasy have openly violated Y...
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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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YAHWEH'S REPROACHES. Yahweh asks why His redeeming acts are forgotten
and His (true) worship abandoned; other nations do not abandon their
gods, though these are worthless, but Yahweh's people have fo...
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PLEAD. argue, contend.
CHILDREN'S CHILDREN. sons' sons....
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_plead_ rather, CONTEND, as both A.V. and R.V. rightly render in
Isaiah 49:25; Isaiah 50:8. To the modern ear the word "plead" suggests
intercession, entreaty, a sense which the Hebrew verb never bear...
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I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU— That is, _I_ will maintain by arguments
the equity of my proceedings, and the injustice of yours....
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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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Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your
children's children will I plead.
YET PLEAD - namely, by inflicting still further judgments on you.
CHILDREN'S CHILDREN - three...
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PLEAD] 'argue,' or 'contend.'...
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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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I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU. — We hear, as it were, the echo of the
words of Hosea 2:2. The injured lord and husband will appear as the
accuser of the faithless bride, and set forth her guilt as in an
i...
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לָכֵ֗ן עֹ֛ד אָרִ֥יב אִתְּכֶ֖ם נְאֻם
־יְהוָ֑ה...
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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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Wherefore I will yet (n) plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your
children's children will I plead.
(n) Signifying that he would not as he might, straightway condemn
them, but shows them by evid...
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_Children; the Israelites, under Moses, and their posterity
transgressed._...
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Observe Reader! the Lord is still pleading. It is the day of grace,
not the hour of judgment. And of all the sottish sins of Israel
surely, this exceeded the whole, that after knowing the one, true, a...
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The particle עוד _oud, _yet, or still, is not without weight; for
the Prophet intimates, that if God had already punished the perfidy
and wickedness of the people, he still retained whole his right to...
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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 I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU, SAITH THE LORD,.... Either
verbally, by reasoning with them, and reproving them for their
ignorance, stupidity, and idolatry; or by deeds, inflicting punishment
up...
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_Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your
children's children will I plead._
Ver. 9. _I will yet plead with you,_] _i.e., _ Debate the case with
you, and set you down by sou...
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_Wherefore I will yet plead with you_ By my prophets, and by my
judgments, as I pleaded with your fathers, that you may be left
without excuse. _And with your children's children will I plead_
Accordi...
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ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
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Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, by citing them
before His tribunal and pronouncing judgment upon them, AND WITH YOUR
CHILDREN'S CHILDREN WILL I PLEAD, since they follow their pare...
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9-13 Before God punishes sinners, he pleads with them, to bring them
to repentance. He pleads with us, what we should plead with ourselves.
Be afraid to think of the wrath and curse which will be the...
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I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU: this is to be understood either really, by
his judgments, PSALMS 74:22, and that with great severities; or
verbally, he will go on to deal with them, to convince them by his...
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YHWH EXPRESSES HIS ASTONISHMENT AT THE INCREDIBLE WAY IN WHICH THEY
HAVE BEHAVED (JEREMIAH 2:9).
YHWH expresses His astonishment at the behaviour of His people, and
calls on the heavens to witness wha...
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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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_Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?_
CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSY
The text may be put into other words, thus: “Go over to the islands
of the Chittim, the isles and coast lands of the f...
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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 2:9 Given this situation, God will CONTEND
with Israel. This word introduces the idea of a lawsuit (Jeremiah
25:31; compare...
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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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Exodus 20:5; Ezekiel 20:35; Ezekiel 20:36; Hosea 2:2; Isaiah 3:13;...
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Plead — By his judgments, and by his prophets, as he did with their
fathers, that they may be left without excuse. Children — God often
visits the iniquities of the parents upon the children, when the...