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Verse Jeremiah 2:22. _FOR THOUGH THOU WASH THEE WITH NITRE_] It
should be rendered _natar_ or _natron_, a substance totally different
from our _nitre_. It comes from the root נתר _nathar_, to dissolv...
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NITRE - Or, natron, a mineral alkali, found in the Nile valley, where
it effloresces upon the rocks and surfaces of the dykes, and in old
time was carefully collected, and used to make lye for washing...
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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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ISRAEL'S FALSE RELIGION. Israel has forfeited the privileges of a son,
and incurred disaster by forsaking Yahweh for the sensuous worship of
the Baalim (_cf._ Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 2:28). Jeremiah 2...
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NITRE: i.e.. mineral alkali. In Palestine. compound of soap.
SOPE. soap.
MARKED. graven....
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_lye_ the same as washing-soda. "It occurs as an incrustation on the
ground in Egypt, Persia and elsewhere, and is also a constituent in
the water of certain saline lakes. The most famous of the latte...
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Israel's sin and obstinacy under punishment
14 17. Co. points out that Jeremiah 2:13 connects naturally with
Jeremiah 2:18. The cisterns from which Israel has sought water proving
unavailable, she has...
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THOUGH THOU WASH THEE WITH NITRE— See Proverbs 25:20 and
Scheuchzer's observations on the place. See Virg. Georg. 3:...
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D. Pointed Accusation Jeremiah 2:20-28
TRANSLATION
(20) For from of old you have broken your yoke, you have burst your
bands and you said, I will not serve. For upon every high hill and
under every g...
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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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NITRE] RV 'lye,'i.e. natron, or carbonate of soda....
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NITRE. — The mineral alkali found in the natron lakes of Egypt that
took their name from it. The Hebrew word _nether_ is the origin of the
Greek AND English words. (Comp. Proverbs 25:20.)
SOPE. — Not...
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כִּ֤י אִם ־תְּכַבְּסִי֙ בַּ † נֶּ֔תֶר
וְ...
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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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For though thou shalt wash thee with (g) lye, and take thee much soap,
[yet] thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
(g) Though you use all the purifications and ceremonies of the law,...
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_Borith. An herb used to clean clothes, and take out spots and dirt,
(Challoner) like kali, soda, (Calmet) or soap. (Langius.) ---
Protestants, "and take thee much soap." (Haydock)_...
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I include all these verses under one view, as the doctrine is one and
the same, though varied with several similitudes. But the whole is
intended to show, to what a degenerate state the Church was red...
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We have already seen, and the Prophet will often repeat the same
thing, — that the people were become so refractory that they would
not willingly give way to any reproofs; for they were almost all of...
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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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FOR THOUGH THOU WASH THEE WITH NITRE,.... The word נתר, "nitre", is
only used in this place and in Proverbs 25:20 and it is hard to say
what it is. Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that some say it is w...
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For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet]
thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 22. _For though thou wash thee with nitre._] Much used of old by
full...
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_For though thou wash thee with nitre_, &c. Though thou shouldest use
ever so many methods of washing away thy sins, such as the rites of
expiation prescribed by the law, or practised by idolaters; th...
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THE SIN OF IDOLATRY...
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For though thou wash thee with niter, an alkali having the properties
of lye, used for washing, AND TAKE THEE MUCH SOAP, the potash which,
mixed with oil, was used for washing clothes, YET THINE INIQU...
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20-28 Notwithstanding all their advantages, Israel had become like
the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. Men are often as much under
the power of their unbridled desires and their sinful lusts, a...
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Though interpreters do greatly vary. in describing what is
particularly meant here by NITRE AND SOAP, and it would be superfluous
to mention here; yet all agree they are some materials that artists
ma...
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Jeremiah 2:22 wash H3526 (H8762) lye H5427 much H7235 (H8686) soap
H1287 iniquity H5771 marked H3799 ...
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THEY HAD BROKEN FREE FROM YHWH TO WORSHIP FALSE GODS AND HAD THEREBY
BECOME DEFILED WITH A DEFILEMENT AND A DEGENERACY THAT THEY COULD NOT
REMOVE, WHILE STILL INCREDIBLY CLAIMING THAT THEY HAD NOT BRO...
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Jeremiah 2:22
The nitre here mentioned was a mineral substance, and the soap was a
vegetable substance, both employed for the purpose of removing spots;
and the meaning is, "Adopt what means you may,...
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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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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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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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_Though thou wash thee with nitre._
NO SELF-EXPIATION
One of the shortest, but most pregnant, words in our language is sin.
And yet it is one of those words least understood. The whole system of
the...
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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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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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Amos 8:7; Deuteronomy 32:34; Hosea 13:12; Jeremiah 16:17; Jeremiah 17
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Nitre — Though interpreters do greatly vary in describing what is
particularly meant here by Nitre and Soap, and would be superfluous to
mention here; yet all agree, they are some materials that artis...
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Were Israel’s sins eradicable or not?
PROBLEM: Jeremiah seems to imply that nothing could wash away
Israel’s sins. “ `For though you wash them with lye, and use much
soap, yet your iniquity is marked...