Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 2:28
For — Thou hast enough of them, imitating the Heathens, who had, according to Varro, above thirty thousand deities. Make trial if any, or all of them together, can help thee.
For — Thou hast enough of them, imitating the Heathens, who had, according to Varro, above thirty thousand deities. Make trial if any, or all of them together, can help thee.
Verse Jeremiah 2:28. ACCORDING _TO THE NUMBER OF THY CITIES ARE THY GODS_] Among heathen nations every city had its _tutelary deity_. Judah, far sunk in idolatry, had adopted this custom. The Church...
A question of bitter irony. Things are made for some use. Now is the time for thy deities to prove themselves real by being useful. When every city has its special deity, surely among so many there mi...
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...
WHERE... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:37; Deuteronomy 32:38). App-92. FOR, &C. Figure of speech _Epitrope._ JUDAH. Compare Je
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...
Jehovah's sarcastic answer to the people's appeal. Do you cry to Me? Cry to the gods of your choice. _for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods It cannot be through any scarcity in number...
DISCOURSE: 1030 THE FOLLY OF NEGLECTING GOD Jeremiah 2:27. _They have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us! But where are...
FOR ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THY CITIES, &C.— The Israelites had now contracted all the fashionable habits of Egypt. We are assured, that it had been long peculiar to the Egyptian superstition, for...
D. Pointed Accusation Jeremiah 2:20-28 TRANSLATION (20) For from of old you have broken your yoke, you have burst your bands and you said, I will not serve. For upon every high hill and under every g...
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. BUT - God sends...
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...
WHERE ARE THY GODS...? — The question is asked in indignant scorn. “Thou madest the gods, and yet they cannot profit thee.” Though every city had its tutelary deity, there was none found to deliver. T...
וְ אַיֵּ֤ה אֱלֹהֶ֨יךָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֣יתָ לָּ֔ךְ...
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...
But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according (p) to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. (p) Y...
_Cities. All were abandoned, Ezechiel xvi. 24., and Osee x. 1._...
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...
And hence he adds, _Where are your gods? _Here God laughs to scorn the false confidence by which the Jews deceived themselves: _Where are your gods, which you have made for yourselves? Let them arise,...
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...
BUT WHERE ARE THY GODS THAT THOU HAST MADE THEE?.... This is, or would be, the Lord's answer to them, what is become of your gods? why do not you apply to them for help in time of trouble? the gods th...
But where [are] thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for [according to] the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah. Ver. 28. _But w...
_As the thief is ashamed_ As the thief has nothing to say for himself, but is perfectly confounded when he is taken in the very act, so the house of Israel hath no manner of plea wherewith to defend o...
THE SIN OF IDOLATRY...
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? Let them arise it they can save thee in the time of thy trouble; for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah! Idolaters of all time...
TROUBLE: _ Heb._ evil...
20-28 Notwithstanding all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. Men are often as much under the power of their unbridled desires and their sinful lusts, a...
THY GODS; thy idols, viz. gods of thy own making; what do they do for thee? ISAIAH 31:3. LET THEM ARISE: either by way of challenge, let them produce their idols now, to help them, if they can, whom t...
Jeremiah 2:28 gods H430 made H6213 (H8804) arise H6965 (H8799) save H3467 (H8686) time H6256 trouble...
THEY HAD BROKEN FREE FROM YHWH TO WORSHIP FALSE GODS AND HAD THEREBY BECOME DEFILED WITH A DEFILEMENT AND A DEGENERACY THAT THEY COULD NOT REMOVE, WHILE STILL INCREDIBLY CLAIMING THAT THEY HAD NOT BRO...
Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
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...
_How canst thou say, I am not polluted._ SELF-VINDICATING SINNERS REPROVED I. The self-vindicating ways of sinners. 1. Direct denial (Genesis 4:9). 2. Vain excuse (1 Samuel 15:13). 3. Hypocritical...
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 2:28 LET THEM ARISE. God challenges the Israelites to have their helpless, lifeless gods save them. After all, they worship as many GODS as they have cities
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 17:30; 2 Kings 17:31; 2 Kings 3:13; Deuteronomy 32:37; H