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A NATION - A Gentile nation, in strong antithesis to people, the
appellation of Israel.
THEIR GLORY - Though the worship of the one true God is a nation’s
greatest glory, yet it is irksome because it...
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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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_a nation_ i.e. a heathen nation.
_which yet are no gods_ Therefore it need not have occasioned
surprise, if their worshippers had at some time deserted them. Heathen
nations are loyal to their gods,...
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HATH A NATION CHANGED THEIR GODS?— That is, according to Bishop
Warburton's interpretation, "Have any of the nations brought the God
of Israel into the number of their false gods, as the Israelites ha...
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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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Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my
people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
GLORY - Yahweh, the glory of Israel (Psalms 106:20; Romans 1:23). The...
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None of the nations have forsaken their ancestral worship, false
though it be. Israel has forsaken her ancient religion, though true....
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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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HATH A NATION... — Emphatically a heathen “nation,” as
contrasted with the “people” of Jehovah. They were faithful to
their false gods; Israel was unfaithful to the true. The words
“changed their glor...
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הַ הֵימִ֥יר גֹּוי֙ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְ
הֵ֖מָּה לֹ֣א
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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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Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my
people have changed their (q) glory for [that which] doth not (r)
profit.
(q) That is, God who is their glory, and who makes them g...
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_Glory; the true God and his ark, Psalm iii. 4., and 1 Kings iv. 21._...
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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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Hence he says, _Yea, pass over unto the islands; _and then he adds,
_see whether there is a thing like this; _that is, such a monstrous
and execrable thing can nowhere be found. An explanation follows...
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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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HATH A NATION CHANGED THEIR GODS, WHICH ARE YET NO GODS?.... Though
they are not by nature gods which they worship, only nominal and
fictitious deities, yet they did not change them for others; but wh...
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Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my
people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.
Ver. 11. _Hath a nation changed their gods?_] No; they are too
pe...
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_For pass over the isles of Chittim_ The neighbouring isles and
peninsulas, which lay west of Judea, meaning especially the countries
of Greece and Macedonia, and the islands and continents of Europe...
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ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
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Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? In spite of
the fact that their idols were false gods, the heathen at least had
the pride and the decency of clinging to their gods. BUT MY PEO...
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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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HATH A NATION CHANGED THEIR GODS? q.d. No, they are unmovable and
fixed to their idols, although they are false gods; what they receive
from their fathers they tenaciously hold. THEIR GLORY, viz. the...
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Jeremiah 2:11 nation H1471 changed H3235 (H8689) gods H430 gods H430
people H5971 changed H4171 (H8689) Glory...
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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 2:10 God’s people have done worse than
idolaters. Most nations are loyal to their lifeless deities, but
Israel has forsaken THEIR GLORY (that is, Yahweh and the covenants)
fo...
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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 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Peter 1:18; Deuteronomy 33:29; Isaiah 37:19;...
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Their glory — The true God, who was their glory; and who always did
them good, giving them cause to glory in him....