In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Your children - i:e., your people, you.
Your ... sword ... devoured ... prophets - (, "They mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets;" ; ; ).
YOUR OWN SWORD HATH DETOURED YOUR PROPHETS - An allusion probably to Manasseh 2 Kings 21:16. Death was the usual fate of the true prophet Nehemiah 9:26; Matthew 23:37....
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)...
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...
DEVOURED YOUR PROPHETS. See 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 18:13. 2Ki 21:16. 2 Chronicles 24:21. Compare Matthew 23:37;...
_your children_ not literally such, nor yet young men slain in battle, but equivalent to the frequent expression "children of thy people" (e.g. Ezekiel 3:11; Ezekiel 33:2; Ezekiel 33:12;...
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...
YOUR OWN SWORD HATH DEVOURED YOUR PROPHETS— That is to say, "You yourselves have put your prophets to death for reproving you." Thus Asa and Joash were put to death in the reign of Manasseh; see 1 Kin...
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...
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...
YOUR PROPHETS] Such as Isaiah (said to have been sawn asunder) and Zechariah son of Jehoiada (2 Chronicles 24:20), and those whom Jezebel (1 Kings 18:13) or Manasseh (2 Kings 21:16) slew: cp....
YOUR OWN SWORD HATH DEVOURED YOUR PROPHETS. — So in the long reign of Manasseh, the prophets who rebuked him had to do so at the risk of their lives. Isaiah, as the tradition ran, had been foremost am...
לַ † שָּׁוְא֙ הִכֵּ֣יתִי אֶת ־בְּנֵיכֶ֔ם מוּסָ֖ר...
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...
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...
In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your (r) own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. (r) That is, you have killed your prophets, that exhort...
_Prophets; Zacharias, (2 Paralipomenon xxiv. 21.) Isaias, &c., Matthew xxiii. 34. (Calmet) --- Punishment is designed by God to cause people to repent. (Worthington)_...
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...
Some expound the beginning of this verse as though the meaning were, — that God chastised the Jews on account of their folly, because they habituated themselves to falsehoods: but the latter clause do...
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...
IN VAIN HAVE I SMITTEN YOUR CHILDREN,.... Or, "for vanity" g; for vain speaking, for making vain oaths and vows; so it is explained in the Talmud h; but the sense is, that the rod of chastisement was...
In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. Ver. 30. _In vain have I smitten your children._] My hammers hav...
_Wherefore will ye plead with me?_ Why do you insist upon your innocence? See Jeremiah 2:35. Why do you lay claim to my former promises, as if you had not forfeited your title to them by your sins? _I...
THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
In vain have I smitten your children, in endeavoring to bring them to their senses; they received no correction, they would not permit themselves to be guided on the right path; YOUR OWN SWORD HATH DE...
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...
YOUR CHILDREN; either your posterity, that you breed up like yourselves; or rather, your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city, or such a place: _children...
Jeremiah 2:30 vain H7723 chastened H5221 (H8689) children H1121 received H3947 (H8804) correction H4148 sword H2719
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...
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...
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...
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...
_How canst thou say, I am not polluted._ SELF-VINDICATING SINNERS REPROVED I. The self-vindicating ways of sinners. 1. Direct denial (Genesis 4:9). 2. Vain excuse (1 Samuel 15:13). 3. Hypocritical...
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...
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...
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...
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...
1 Kings 19:10; 1 Kings 19:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Chronicles 24:21;...
Children — Your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city. Correction — Instruction: though they were corrected, yet they would not be instructed. Your sword...