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Verse Jeremiah 2:35. _BECAUSE I AM INNOCENT_] They continued to assert
their innocence, and therefore expected that God's judgments would be
speedily removed!
_I WILL PLEAD WITH THEE_] I will maintai...
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BECAUSE I AM INNOCENT - Rather, But “I am innocent,” or, “I am
acquitted.” Those blood-stains cannot be upon my skirts, because
now, in king Josiah’s days, the idolatry of Manasseh has been put
away....
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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 disregard of Jehovah's past favours
31. _O generation, see ye_ O GENERATION THAT YE ARE, SEE.
_a wilderness_ Have I been like a place where ye lacked sustenance?
Not so. Cp. Hosea 2:8.
_thi...
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Israel protests that her innocence is proved by her prosperity, which
marks Jehovah's favour. He replies that judgement awaits her for her
denial of guilt....
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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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Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn
from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have
not sinned.
YET THOU SAYEST. So the Jewish nation is introd...
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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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PLEAD] RV 'enter into judgement.'...
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YET THOU SAYEST... — Once again we have the equivocating plea of the
accused. She takes up the word that had been used by the accuser:
“You speak of the innocents; _I, too, am innocent. His anger has...
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וַ תֹּֽאמְרִי֙ כִּ֣י נִקֵּ֔יתִי אַ֛ךְ
שָׁ֥ב א
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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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Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the
gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what
this Chapter affords, from beginning to end. The Lord sends the
Proph...
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The Prophet here shews that the Jews were possessed of such a brazen
front, that they could not be led by any admonitions to feel any
shame. Though then they were like adulterous women, and though the...
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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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YET THOU SAYEST, BECAUSE I AM INNOCENT,.... Or, "that I am innocent";
though guilty of such flagrant and notorious crimes, acting like the
adulterous woman, Proverbs 30:20 to whom the Jews are all alo...
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Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn
from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have
not sinned.
Ver. 35. _Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent._...
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_Yet thou sayest_ Or interrogatively, _Darest thou say?_ Hast thou the
impudence to affirm it? _Because I am innocent_ Clear of this whole
charge; _surely his anger shall turn from me_ Shall not break...
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Yet thou sayest, with brazen boldness. Because I am innocent, surely
His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, citing
Israel before the tribunal of His judgment, BECAUSE THOU SAYES...
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THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
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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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YET THOU SAYEST; or interrogatively, Darest thou say? hast thou the
impudence to affirm it? INNOCENT; clear of this whole charge. _Shall
turn_; shall not break out against me, ISAIAH 5:25. I WILL PLEA...
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Jeremiah 2:35 say H559 (H8799) innocent H5352 (H8738) anger H639 turn
H7725 (H8804) case H8199 ...
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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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_Thou sayest, I have not sinned._
OBSTINATE IMPENITENCE
1. Blind to its own guilt.
2. Blasphemes God by accusing Him of unjust anger.
3. Will not escape just punishment. (_Naegelsbach._)
DENIAL O...
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_Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_
DIVINE QUESTIONS
The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? have I been a land of darkness unto Israel?”
Speak ou...
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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 John 1:8; Isaiah 58:3; Jeremiah 2:23; Jeremiah 2:29; Jeremiah 2:9;...
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Behold — I will proceed in my judgment against thee. Because —
Because thou justifiest thyself....