Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Jeremiah 2:4
Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel, individually and collectively, the whole nation, all of them being in the same condemnation.
Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel, individually and collectively, the whole nation, all of them being in the same condemnation.
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)...
YAHWEH'S REPROACHES. Yahweh asks why His redeeming acts are forgotten and His (true) worship abandoned; other nations do not abandon their gods, though these are worthless, but Yahweh's people have fo...
HOUSE OF JACOB. Occurs only here, and Jeremiah 5:20, where it is "in the house of Jacob". The only other passage is Amos 3:13. THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. The _Massorah_ (App-30), records that this expressio...
_all the families of the house of Israel_ addressed not to the ten tribes only, but to the nation as a whole....
DISCOURSE: 1026 THE INGRATITUDE OF MEN Jeremiah 2:4. _Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers...
B. Present Apostasy Jeremiah 2:4-8 TRANSLATION (4) Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel. (5) This is what the LORD has said: What fault did your fat...
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: O HOUSE OF JACOB ... ISRAEL - the whole nation. FAMILIES - (remark, ), hear God's word not only collec...
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...
שִׁמְע֥וּ דְבַר ־יְהוָ֖ה בֵּ֣ית יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְ כ
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...
UNGRATEFUL FORGETFULNESS Jeremiah 2:1-8; Jeremiah 26:1-24; Jeremiah 27:1-22; Jeremiah 28:1-17; Jeremiah 29:1-32; Jeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44 God regarded
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...
Having put his people in mind of what had passed; and given them to understand that the Lord had not forgotten the smallest tendencies of their affection towards him; he now begins to remonstrate with...
Here God explains why he had referred to what we have noticed, — that he had consecrated Israel to himself as a peculiar people, and as the first — fruits. God often mentions his favors to us, in orde...
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...
HEAR YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, O HOUSE OF JACOB, AND ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. The Lord, by the prophet, having observed his great kindness to this people, what they were unto him, and w...
Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: Ver. 4. _Hear ye the word of the Lord._] This is often inculcated in both Testaments, to procure attention...
_Hear, O house of Jacob_, &c. The prophet here directs his discourse to the twelve tribes, as he does afterward, Jeremiah 3:14, &c. For the captivity of the ten tribes was not so total but that there...
1-8 Those who begin well, but do not persevere, will justly be upbraided with their hopeful and promising beginnings. Those who desert religion, commonly oppose it more than those who never knew it....
HEAR YE THE WORD OF THE LORD: he bespeaks their attention to what he is about to speak, as unto the word of the Lord, telling them that he deliver's God's message, and vents not his own passions: the...
Jeremiah 2:4 Hear H8085 (H8798) word H1697 LORD H3068 house H1004 Jacob H3290 families H4940 house H1004 Israel...
YHWH REMINDS THEM OF THEIR SALVATION HISTORY AND BRINGS OUT THE INGRATITUDE OF THEIR RESPONSE (JEREMIAH 2:4). YHWH's initial complaint is that in spite of all that He has done for them in delivering t...
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...
_What iniquity have your fathers found in Me._ THE EVIL NATURE OF SIN COMMITTED AFTER CONVERSION I. Violation of solemn vows and covenant engagements. At that time we took Christ’s cause for our cau...
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...
Hosea 4:1; Isaiah 51:1; Jeremiah 13:15; Jeremiah 19:3; Jeremiah 31:1;