George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 2:16
Taphnes, 16 miles from Pelusium, in Egypt. The nation proved only detrimental to the Jews, by engaging them in their abominations, instead of affording relief.
Taphnes, 16 miles from Pelusium, in Egypt. The nation proved only detrimental to the Jews, by engaging them in their abominations, instead of affording relief.
Verse Jeremiah 2:16. _THE CHILDREN OF NOPH AND TAHAPANES_] Noph and Tahapanes were two cities of Egypt, otherwise called _Memphis_ and _Daphni_. It is well known that the good king was defeated by the...
Noph, i. e., Napata, a town situated in the extreme south of Egypt. Some take it to be Memphis (see Isaiah 19:13 note). TAHAPANES - Daphne Pelusii, a bordertown toward Palestine. HAVE BROKEN THE CROW...
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...
NOPH. Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt, south of Cairo. Compare Jeremiah 41:1.Isaiah 19:13. TAHAPANES. The Greek Daphnae, on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. Compare Jeremiah 43:7;...
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...
_also_ EVEN. The sense is, _those in whom thou most trustedst_. _Noph_ Memphis, formerly the capital of Lower (i.e. Northern) Egypt, the word Noph representing some colloquial Semitic or Egyptian pro...
THE YOUNG LIONS ROARED, &C.— _Against him lions shall roar: they have lifted up the voice and have made his land a desolation; his cities are burned, so as to be without an inhabitant. Also the childr...
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...
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. NOPH ... TAHAPANES - Noph is Memphis, capital of Lower Egypt, on the west bank of the Nile, near the pyramids of Gizeh, op...
2:16 Tahapanes (c-7) See Notes, Isaiah 19:13 ; Isaiah 30:4 ; Jeremiah 44:1 . on (d-10) Others, 'have broken.'...
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...
NOPH] probably Memphis, the capital of northern (lower) Egypt. TAHAPANES] the classic Daphnæ, an Egyptian fortress on the E. frontier of Lower Egypt. It is again mentioned (Jeremiah 43:7) as the futur...
ALSO THE CHILDREN OF NOPH... — We pass from the language of poetry to that of history, and the actual enemies of Israel appear on the scene, not as the threatening danger in the north, but in the far...
גַּם ־בְּנֵי ־נֹ֖ף _וְ_†_תַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס_† יִרְע֖וּךְ קָדְקֹֽד׃
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...
Also the children of (z) Noph and Tahapanes have (a) broken the crown of thy head. (z) That is, the Egyptians, for these were two great cities in Egypt. (a) Have grievously vexed you at various time...
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...
By way of amplification he adds, _Also the sons of Noph and of Tephanes shall for thee break the head, _or, the crown of the head. We shall hereafter see that the Israelites were wont to seek help fro...
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...
ALSO THE CHILDREN OF NOPH AND TAHAPANES,.... These were cities in Egypt. Noph is the same with Moph in Hosea 9:6 and which we there rightly render Memphis; as Noph is here by the Targum, Septuagint, V...
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. Ver. 16. _Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes._] Two chief cities of Egypt, the inhabitants whereof were said to be most...
_The young lions roared upon them_ Lions, in the figurative style of prophecy, denote powerful princes and conquerors; see Jeremiah 50:17; where the king of Assyria is mentioned as one of those lions...
Israel's Punishment and its Cause...
Also the children of Noph, of Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt at that time, AND TAHAPANES, of Daphne, a city on the frontier of Egypt toward Palestine, HAVE BROKEN THE CROWN OF THY HEAD. The Egypt...
BROKEN THE CROWN: Or, feed on thy crown, Deuteronomy 33:12; Isaiah 8:8...
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...
NOPH AND TAHAPANES; two of the king of Egypt's principal seats. Concerning _Noph_, sometimes called Memphis, now Cairo, see on ISAIAH 19:13. Concerning _Tahapanes_, see EZEKIEL 30:18, probably taking...
Jeremiah 2:16 people H1121 Noph H5297 Tahpanhes H8471 broken H7462 (H8799) head H6936 Also the -...
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...
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...
2 Kings 18:21; 2 Kings 23:33; Deuteronomy 33:20; Ezekiel 30:13;...
Noph, &c. — Two of the kings of Egypt's principal seats. Noph was sometimes called Memphis, now Cairo. Tahapanes probably took its name from Taphanes queen of Egypt, 1 Kings 11:19, called also Hanes:...