George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 2:14
Slave. From such, labour and tribute were required, Matthew xvii. 24., and John viii. 33.
Slave. From such, labour and tribute were required, Matthew xvii. 24., and John viii. 33.
Verse Jeremiah 2:14. Is _ISRAEL A SERVANT?_] Is he a _slave_ purchased with money, or a _servant born in the family_? He is a _son_ himself. If so, then, _why is he spoiled_? Not because God has not s...
It was Israel’s glory to be Yahweh’s servant Jeremiah 30:10, and slaves born in the house were more prized than those bought with money as being more faithful Genesis 14:14. Cannot Yahweh guard His ow...
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)...
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...
SERVANT?... SLAVE? They were treated as such by Assyria, and afterward by Egypt. SPOILED. become. spoil....
_Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn_slave?] An emphatic negative is the reply expected, as in Jeremiah 2:31. Israel is not a slave but a _son_. Why then is he spoiled? If (which is however doubtful...
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...
IS ISRAEL A SERVANT?— "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? Is he not the son, the chosen and peculiar people...
C. Penetrating Analysis Jeremiah 2:9-19 TRANSLATION (9) So yet I present My case against you (oracle of the LORD), and with your children I must contend. (10) For pass over to the isles of Kittim and...
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? IS HE A HOME-BORN SLAVE? - No. (, "Thus saith the Lord (Yahweh), Israel is my son, even my first-born.") ; ;...
_Is_ ISRAEL, etc.] The meaning here probably is, HOW is it that Israel, the people of God, has become a slave to neighbouring powers? Jeremiah 2:17 gives the answer....
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...
IS ISRAEL A SERVANT? — The word “servant,” we must remember, had become, through its frequent use in Isaiah (Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 41:8, _et al._)_,_ a word not of shame, but honour; and of all servants...
הַ עֶ֨בֶד֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִם ־יְלִ֥יד בַּ֖יִת ה
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...
[Is] Israel a (u) servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he laid waste? (u) Have I ordered them like servants and not like dearly beloved children? (Exodus 4:22) therefore it is their fault only...
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...
These verses are to be read together; for the Prophet first shews that Israel was not as to his original condition miserable, but that this happened through a new cause, and then he mentions the cause...
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...
IS ISRAEL A SERVANT?.... That he does not abide in the house, in his own land, but is carried captive, becomes subject to others, and is used as a slave; so the Targum, "as a servant;'' is he not th...
Jeremiah 2:14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled? Ver. 14. _Is Israel a servant?_] _sc., _ Bought with money. _a_ Is he a homeborn slave?] _Verna,_ a slave by birth...
_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 impl...
Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he spoiled? The question, whether asked by the prophet or directly by God, expresses surprise that the nation which was once God's favorite should...
Israel's Punishment and its Cause...
SPOILED?: _ Heb._ become a spoil...
14-19 Is Israel a servant? No, they are the seed of Abraham. We may apply this spiritually: Is the soul of man a slave? No, it is not; but has sold its own liberty, and enslaved itself to divers lust...
IS ISRAEL A SERVANT? IS HE A HOME-BORN SLAVE? did I ever account him so? or did I not rather always reckon him my first-born? so some, as JEREMIAH 2:31. But it may better relate to his sad condition a...
Jeremiah 2:14 Israel H3478 servant H5650 homeborn H1004 H3211 Why H4069 plundered H957 Israel -...
IT IS POINTED OUT THAT IT IS BECAUSE OF THEIR INCREDIBLE BEHAVIOUR THAT THEY HAVE UNDERGONE, AND ARE UNDERGOING, THEIR PRESENT DISTRESSES (JEREMIAH 2:14). It is apparent from the words that follow tha...
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...
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 espousal...
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...
_Is Israel a servant?_ is he a home-born slave? why is he spoiled? ISRAEL A HOME-BORN SLAVE Is this a contemptuous inquiry?--Israel a servant, Israel a home-born slave. Is there not scorn underlying...
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...
Ecclesiastes 2:7; Exodus 4:22; Genesis 15:3; Isaiah 50:1...
A slave — Slave is here added to home — born to express the baseness of his service, because the master had power to make those slaves who were born of slaves in his house. Why — Why is he thus tyrann...