Jeremiah 2:10 - Exposition

Justification of Jehovah's judicial action towards Judah. Consider the heinousness of the offence. Pass over —rather, pass over to— the isles of Chittim ; i.e. the islands and maritime countries of the West, represented by Cyprus (see on Genesis 10:4 ). For the wide use of Chittim, comp. Numbers 24:24 ; Daniel 11:30 ). Kedar , in the narrower sense, is a large tribe of Arabian origin, whose haunts were between Arabia Petraea and Babylonia. Here, however, it is used in a wider sense for the Arab tribes in general (so Jeremiah Tiler 28; Isaiah 21:16 , Isaiah 21:17 ).