Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 2:11
Their glory — The true God, who was their glory; and who always did them good, giving them cause to glory in him.
Their glory — The true God, who was their glory; and who always did them good, giving them cause to glory in him.
A NATION - A Gentile nation, in strong antithesis to people, the appellation of Israel. THEIR GLORY - Though the worship of the one true God is a nation’s greatest glory, yet it is irksome because it...
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...
THEIR GLORY. His glory. This is one of the emendations of the _Sopherim_ (App-33), by which the Hebrew _kebodi_ ("My glory") was changed to _kebodo_ ("His glory"), out of. mistaken idea of reverence....
_a nation_ i.e. a heathen nation. _which yet are no gods_ Therefore it need not have occasioned surprise, if their worshippers had at some time deserted them. Heathen nations are loyal to their gods,...
HATH A NATION CHANGED THEIR GODS?— That is, according to Bishop Warburton's interpretation, "Have any of the nations brought the God of Israel into the number of their false gods, as the Israelites ha...
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...
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. GLORY - Yahweh, the glory of Israel (Psalms 106:20; Romans 1:23). The...
None of the nations have forsaken their ancestral worship, false though it be. Israel has forsaken her ancient religion, though true....
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...
HATH A NATION... — Emphatically a heathen “nation,” as contrasted with the “people” of Jehovah. They were faithful to their false gods; Israel was unfaithful to the true. The words “changed their glor...
הַ הֵימִ֥יר גֹּוי֙ אֱלֹהִ֔ים וְ הֵ֖מָּה לֹ֣א
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...
Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their (q) glory for [that which] doth not (r) profit. (q) That is, God who is their glory, and who makes them g...
_Glory; the true God and his ark, Psalm iii. 4., and 1 Kings iv. 21._...
Observe Reader! the Lord is still pleading. It is the day of grace, not the hour of judgment. And of all the sottish sins of Israel surely, this exceeded the whole, that after knowing the one, true, a...
Hence he says, _Yea, pass over unto the islands; _and then he adds, _see whether there is a thing like this; _that is, such a monstrous and execrable thing can nowhere be found. An explanation follows...
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...
HATH A NATION CHANGED THEIR GODS, WHICH ARE YET NO GODS?.... Though they are not by nature gods which they worship, only nominal and fictitious deities, yet they did not change them for others; but wh...
Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit. Ver. 11. _Hath a nation changed their gods?_] No; they are too pe...
_For pass over the isles of Chittim_ The neighbouring isles and peninsulas, which lay west of Judea, meaning especially the countries of Greece and Macedonia, and the islands and continents of Europe...
ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? In spite of the fact that their idols were false gods, the heathen at least had the pride and the decency of clinging to their gods. BUT MY PEO...
9-13 Before God punishes sinners, he pleads with them, to bring them to repentance. He pleads with us, what we should plead with ourselves. Be afraid to think of the wrath and curse which will be the...
HATH A NATION CHANGED THEIR GODS? q.d. No, they are unmovable and fixed to their idols, although they are false gods; what they receive from their fathers they tenaciously hold. THEIR GLORY, viz. the...
Jeremiah 2:11 nation H1471 changed H3235 (H8689) gods H430 gods H430 people H5971 changed H4171 (H8689) Glory...
YHWH EXPRESSES HIS ASTONISHMENT AT THE INCREDIBLE WAY IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEHAVED (JEREMIAH 2:9). YHWH expresses His astonishment at the behaviour of His people, and calls on the heavens to witness wha...
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...
_Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods?_ CHRISTIAN CONTROVERSY The text may be put into other words, thus: “Go over to the islands of the Chittim, the isles and coast lands of the f...
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...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:10 God’s people have done worse than idolaters. Most nations are loyal to their lifeless deities, but Israel has forsaken THEIR GLORY (that is, Yahweh and the covenants) fo...
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 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Peter 1:18; Deuteronomy 33:29; Isaiah 37:19;...