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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:34

Poor innocents] RV 'the innocent poor.'

By secret search] RV 'at the place of breaking in.' The allusion is to the law (Exodus 22:2) by which it was permissible to slay a thief caught in the act of breaking into a house. But those 'innocent poor' had committed no such crime, yet their blood had been wantonly shed: cp. the cruelties of Manasseh 2 Kings 21:16.

Upon all these] RM 'upon every oak,' or, perhaps, 'because of this,' i.e. your lust for idolatry.

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See also Jeremiah 2:34 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Jeremiah 2:34. _THE BLOOD OF THE SOULS OF THE POOR INNOCENTS_] We find from the sacred history that Manasseh had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; see 2 Kings 21:16, and Ezekiel 34:10. I h

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I HAVE NOT FOUND IT ... - Rather, thou didst not find them breaking into thy house. The meaning is, that these poor innocents had committed no crime: they were not thieves caught in the act, whom the...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BLOOD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Subject), for the guilt of bloodshedding. SOULS. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. POOR. helpless. Hebrew. _'ebyon._ See note on Proverbs 6:11. IT: i.e. t...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _blood, etc_.] "The allusion may be to deaths due to miscarriage of justice or the result of exaction (Jeremiah 7:6; Jeremiah 22:3 end, 17; cf. Micah 3:10; Ps

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. ALSO. Not only art thou polluted with idolatry, but also with the...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    2:34 these. (a-29) Or '... innocent poor; I have not found it by violently breaking in [i.e. into secret places], but upon all these.' For sense see Exodus 22:2 ,Exodus 22:3 ....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALSO IN THY SKIRTS... — The general meaning is clear, and points to the guilt of Israel in offering her children — the “poor innocents” — in horrid sacrifice to Molech; perhaps, also, to her maltreatm...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    גַּ֤ם בִּ כְנָפַ֨יִךְ֙ נִמְצְא֔וּ דַּ֛ם נַפְשֹׁ֥ות...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Also in thy (x) skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. (x) The prophets and the faithful are slain in every corner of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Innocent children, immolated to Moloc, or people murdered, whose blood thou hast not concealed, 4 Kings xxi. 16._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet repeats, as I think, what he had before said, — that the wickedness of his nation was incorrigible; for they repented not when warned, but on the contrary raged like wild beasts against th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    ALSO IN THY SKIRTS IS FOUND THE BLOOD OF THE SOULS OF THE POOR INNOCENTS,.... Either of the innocent infants of poor persons, who were sacrificed to Moloch; or of the poor prophets of the Lord, whom t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. Ver. 34. _Also in thy skirts._] In the skirts of thy garments. Heb....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love_ “The prophet,” says Lowth, “alludes to the practices of common harlots, who deck themselves, and use all inveigling arts, that they may recommend themselves to...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents, of holy men and prophets who dared to reprove Israel for her sins. I HAVE NOT FOUND IT BY SECRET SEARCH, such a careful scruti...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SECRET SEARCH: _ Heb._ digging...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IN THY SKIRTS, viz. of thy garments; a synecdoche of the kind; the tokens of thy cruelty may be seen openly there: or, in _thy hands_, as the LXX.: or a metaphor from birds of rapine, whose wings are...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 2:34 skirts H3671 found H4672 (H8738) blood H1818 lives H5315 poor H34 innocents H5355 found H4672 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:34 Covenant infidelity always leads to ethical infidelity. God has FOUND THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE GUILTLESS POOR on Israel’s SKIRTS ...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Kings 21:16; 2 Kings 24:4; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:21; Ezeki

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Skirts — Of thy garments: the tokens of cruelty may be seen openly there. Innocents — In thee is found the murder expressed here by blood of innocent persons, murdering souls as well as bodies. Search...

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