Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:25
God the true husband exhorts Israel not to run barefoot, and with parched throat, like a shameless adulteress, after strangers.There is no hope - i. e., It is in vain. read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:27
“Stone” being feminine in Hebrew is here represented as the mother.Arise, and save us - Whether it be idolatry or infidelity, it satisfies only in tranquil and prosperous times. No sooner does trouble come, than the deep conviction of the existence of a God, which is the witness for Him in our heart, resumes its authority, and man prays. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:28
A question of bitter irony. Things are made for some use. Now is the time for thy deities to prove themselves real by being useful. When every city has its special deity, surely among so many there might be found one able to help his worshippers.O Judah - Hereto the argument had been addressed to Israel: suddenly the prophet charges Judah with the habitual practice of idolatry, and points to the conclusion, that as Jerusalem has been guilty of Samaria’s sin, it must suffer Samaria’s punishment. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:4-6
Jeremiah 2:4-6. Hear, O house of Jacob, &c. The prophet here directs his discourse to the twelve tribes, as he does afterward, Jeremiah 3:14, &c. For the captivity of the ten tribes was not so total but that there were some Israelites still remaining in the land among the Assyrian colonists. What iniquity have your fathers found in me? That is, what injustice or unfaithfulness in not performing my part of the Sinai covenant? That they are gone far from me Far from the love and... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:7-8
Jeremiah 2:7-8. And I brought you into a plentiful country Hebrew, into the land of Carmel. Carmel was so fertile a part of Judea, that the word from thence came to be used to express a fruitful place in general. Canaan was as one great, fruitful field, Deuteronomy 8:7. When ye entered, ye defiled my land By your sins, especially by your idolatries, Psalms 106:38; that sin being greatly aggravated by this circumstance, that the people thereby renounced God’s authority in that very land... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:9
Jeremiah 2:9. 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 According to the tenor of the law, wherein God threatens to visit the sins, particularly the sin of idolatry, of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation. read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:10-11
Jeremiah 2:10-11. 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 in general; the countries that were more polite and learned. And send unto Kedar To Arabia, and the countries to the east and south, as the others lay to the west and north: send to them that are more rude and barbarous. And consider diligently As a matter well worth your... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:12-13
Jeremiah 2:12-13. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this A pathetical expression, in the poetic style, signifying that the wickedness of these apostates from God was so great, that the very inanimate creatures, could they be sensible of it, might well stand amazed at it: that the heavens might be affrighted to behold it, and the celestial bodies withdraw their light and influences from that part of the world where such enormities were practised. “Such rhetorical apostrophes import the... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:14
Jeremiah 2:14. Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? Is he of a condition to be delivered as a prey to his enemies? Is he of those people whom God regards as slaves and strangers? These interrogations imply, and have the force of, a negative. As if he had said, Is not Israel the son, the chosen and peculiar people of God? Why then hath the Lord treated him as a common slave, and given him up into the power of tyrannical lords and masters? The sense is, God redeemed Israel from the... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:24
A wild donkey used to the wilderness - The type of an untamed and reckless nature.Snuffeth up the wind - The wind brings with it the scent of the male. Israel does not wait until temptation comes of itself, but looks out for any and every incentive to idolatry.Occasion ... month - i. e., the pairing season. read more