whilst their children, the entire nation, remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills, that is, they were so deeply steeped in idolatry that the mere sight of a green tree and of a high hill awoke in them the remembrance of those terrible altars and of the Asherah images which they had erected there.
Verse Jeremiah 17:2. _WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER_] Even the rising generation have their _imagination_ stocked with _idol images_, and their _memories_ with the frantic rites and ceremonies which...
WHILE THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS - Perhaps an allusion to their sacrifices of children to Moloch. Present perhaps at some such blood-stained rite, its horrors would be engraven forever upon...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. Judah's sin (Jeremiah 17:1) _ 2. The curse and the blessing (Jeremiah 17:5) 3. The worship of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 17:12) 4. Concerning the Sabbath ...
JEREMIAH 16:1 TO JEREMIAH 17:18. THE COMING DISTRESS A PENALTY FOR SIN. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which death will be...
CHILDREN. sons. GROVES _= Asherim_ (plural) See App-42. THE GREEN TREES. Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "by every green tree". UPON. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Aramaea...
Jeremiah 17:1. See introd. summary to section. The _vv_. are omitted in LXX, either (as St Jerome suggests) from unwillingness that the lasting condemnation here expressed should be put on permanent...
The text is difficult, and pretty certainly contains some error. Du. and Co. omit from "whilst their" to "Asherim," as a gloss, introduced to shew how indelible was Judah's guilt, to be remembered by...
IV. PROPHETIC SAYINGS Jeremiah 17:1-11 The first eleven verses of chapter 17 contain three independent sayings of the prophet probably from three different sermons. These sayings do not seem to have a...
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS AND THEIR GROVES - instead of forsaking the idolatri...
1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment....
GROVES] RV 'Asherim,' wooden pillars, or monuments, set up in honour of Astoreth (Astarte), generally near altars (e.g. Judges 6:25). The Law ordered them to be pulled down (Exodus 34:13)....
WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER... — If we take “children” as referring to age, there may be a reference to the way in which the horrors of Molech worship were burnt in upon the minds of boys who were...
כִּ זְכֹּ֤ר בְּנֵיהֶם֙ מִזְבְּחֹותָ֔ם וַ אֲשֵׁרֵיהֶ֖ם...
CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 15:1 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up into short sect...
HUMAN AND DIVINE HELP CONTRASTED Jeremiah 17:1-14 The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon. What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon human aid, wit...
Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a d...
(d) While their children remember their altars and their idols by the green trees upon the high hills. (d) Some read, "So that their children remember their altars", that is, follow their father's wi...
What is here said of Judah's sin, may be equally said of all men's sins: they are cut in and formed in the very heart. Nothing short of a new heart, wrought by the Lord himself, can form a change. Eze...
Interpreters seem not to me to have perceived the design of the Prophet here, at least they have not clearly explained the subject. He proceeds, as I think, with what he said at the end of the last ve...
The great thing, amidst all that was going on, was to trust in Jehovah. He who, failing in this, made flesh his arm, should not see when good came. Meantime the fire of God's anger was kindled and sho...
WHILST THEIR CHILDREN REMEMBER THEIR ALTARS,.... Which is a further proof of their long continuance in idolatrous practices, and a fresh witness against them; they trained up their children in them; w...
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. Ver. 2. _While their children remember their altars._] Or, As they remember their children, so the...
_The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron_ Many of the Jews, though living in the habitual commission of the grossest crimes, were, nevertheless, self-righteous, and thought they did not deserve...
1-4 The sins which men commit make little impression on their minds, yet every sin is marked in the book of God; they are all so graven upon the table of the heart, that they will all be remembered b...
This showed how inveterate they were in this sin of idolatry, that they taught it their children, and their children remembered their idolatrous altars and the groves where they were wont to worship i...
Jeremiah 17:2 children H1121 remember H2142 (H8800) altars H4196 images H842 green H7488 trees H6086 high H1364 hil
THE DEPTHS OF JUDAH'S SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (JEREMIAH 17:1). The thought of what YHWH is going to do in the future brings Jeremiah back to the present to consider Judah's current state and its con...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond:_ It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that is wr...
CONTENTS: Sign of the unmarried prophet, concluded. Message in the gates concerning the Sabbath. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: The heart of man, out of communion with God, is wicked and dece...
Jeremiah 17:1. _The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron._ Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars of B...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 17:1 PEN OF IRON... POINT OF DIAMOND. These were tools for carving on stone, which is what THEIR HEART has become. BESIDE EVERY GREEN TREE,...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. Jeremiah 17:1 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19. [_Keil_ se...
EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding men of Juda...
Chapter 17 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond (Jeremiah 17:1): Interesting that they were using diamonds for pens in those days, isn't it? Diamonds set in...
2 Chronicles 24:18; 2 Chronicles 33:19; 2 Chronicles 33:3; Ezekiel 20:28;...
Their children — This shewed how inveterate they were in this sin of idolatry, that they taught it their children....