Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 2:35
Behold — I will proceed in my judgment against thee. Because — Because thou justifiest thyself.
Behold — I will proceed in my judgment against thee. Because — Because thou justifiest thyself.
Verse Jeremiah 2:35. _BECAUSE I AM INNOCENT_] They continued to assert their innocence, and therefore expected that God's judgments would be speedily removed! _I WILL PLEAD WITH THEE_] I will maintai...
BECAUSE I AM INNOCENT - Rather, But “I am innocent,” or, “I am acquitted.” Those blood-stains cannot be upon my skirts, because now, in king Josiah’s days, the idolatry of Manasseh has been put away....
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)...
THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that o...
PLEAD. enter into judgment with. SINNED. Hebrew. _chata_. App-44....
Israel's disregard of Jehovah's past favours 31. _O generation, see ye_ O GENERATION THAT YE ARE, SEE. _a wilderness_ Have I been like a place where ye lacked sustenance? Not so. Cp. Hosea 2:8. _thi...
Israel protests that her innocence is proved by her prosperity, which marks Jehovah's favour. He replies that judgement awaits her for her denial of guilt....
E. Pungent Argument Jeremiah 2:29-37 TRANSLATION (29) Why do you continue to complain to Me? All of you have transgressed against Me (oracle of the LORD). (30) In vain I have smitten your sons; they...
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. YET THOU SAYEST. So the Jewish nation is introd...
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...
PLEAD] RV 'enter into judgement.'...
YET THOU SAYEST... — Once again we have the equivocating plea of the accused. She takes up the word that had been used by the accuser: “You speak of the innocents; _I, too, am innocent. His anger has...
וַ תֹּֽאמְרִי֙ כִּ֣י נִקֵּ֔יתִי אַ֛ךְ שָׁ֥ב א
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...
Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what this Chapter affords, from beginning to end. The Lord sends the Proph...
The Prophet here shews that the Jews were possessed of such a brazen front, that they could not be led by any admonitions to feel any shame. Though then they were like adulterous women, and though the...
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...
YET THOU SAYEST, BECAUSE I AM INNOCENT,.... Or, "that I am innocent"; though guilty of such flagrant and notorious crimes, acting like the adulterous woman, Proverbs 30:20 to whom the Jews are all alo...
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned. Ver. 35. _Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent._...
_Yet thou sayest_ Or interrogatively, _Darest thou say?_ Hast thou the impudence to affirm it? _Because I am innocent_ Clear of this whole charge; _surely his anger shall turn from me_ Shall not break...
THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
Yet thou sayest, with brazen boldness. Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, citing Israel before the tribunal of His judgment, BECAUSE THOU SAYES...
29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of dark...
YET THOU SAYEST; or interrogatively, Darest thou say? hast thou the impudence to affirm it? INNOCENT; clear of this whole charge. _Shall turn_; shall not break out against me, ISAIAH 5:25. I WILL PLEA...
Jeremiah 2:35 say H559 (H8799) innocent H5352 (H8738) anger H639 turn H7725 (H8804) case H8199 ...
YHWH CHALLENGES HIS PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING AS THEY ARE (JEREMIAH 2:29). YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their favour when all they had previously done...
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...
_Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_ DIVINE QUESTIONS The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? have I been a land of darkness unto Israel?” Speak ou...
_Thou sayest, I have not sinned._ OBSTINATE IMPENITENCE 1. Blind to its own guilt. 2. Blasphemes God by accusing Him of unjust anger. 3. Will not escape just punishment. (_Naegelsbach._) DENIAL O...
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 John 1:8; Isaiah 58:3; Jeremiah 2:23; Jeremiah 2:29; Jeremiah 2:9;...