Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 2:36
Why — Why dost thou seek auxiliaries anywhere, rather than cleave to me? Ashamed — Egypt shall stand thee in no more stead than Assyria hath done.
Why — Why dost thou seek auxiliaries anywhere, rather than cleave to me? Ashamed — Egypt shall stand thee in no more stead than Assyria hath done.
Verse Jeremiah 2:36. _WHY GADDEST THOU ABOUT_] When they had departed from the Lord, they sought foreign alliances for support. 1. The _Assyrians_, 2 Chronicles 28:13; but they injured instead of hel...
TO CHANGE THY WAY - The rival parties at Jerusalem looked one to Assyria, the other to Egypt, for safety. As one or other for the time prevailed, the nation “changed its way,” sending its embassies no...
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...
AS. according as....
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...
_to change thy way_ to turn from Assyria and seek the aid of Egypt. The negotiations here referred to are unknown. LXX, vocalising MT. differently, render, _Why makest thou so light of changing thy wa...
WHY GADDEST THOU ABOUT SO MUCH, &C.— This is rendered by the Vulgate, _How vile art thou become, changing_ or _repeating thy ways!_ "Continuing still to seek new succours from strangers, though thou h...
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...
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. GADDEST - runnest to and fro, now seeking help from Assyria (as Ahaz did, ),...
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...
ASHAMED OF EGYPT] literally fulfilled when the Egyptians in the reign of Zedekiah were expected to raise the siege of Jerusalem, but failed to do so: cp. Jeremiah 37:5. ASHAMED OF ASSYRIA] A conspicuo...
WHY GADDEST THOU...? — The vigorous English expresses well, perhaps even with some added force, the frequentative force of the Hebrew. What meant this perpetual change of policy, this shifting of alli...
מַה ־תֵּזְלִ֥י מְאֹ֖ד לְ שַׁנֹּ֣ות אֶת ־דַּרְ
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...
Why dost thou go about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, (y) as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. (y) For the Assyrians had taken away the ten tribes out of Israel and destr...
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 goes on with the same subject. He had said before that the people were like an unfaithful wife, who having left her husband rambles here and there to gratify her lusts. For this view he no...
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...
WHY GADDEST THOU ABOUT SO MUCH TO CHANGE THY WAY?.... Or, "by changing thy way" t; sometimes going one way, and sometimes another; sometimes to Egypt, and then to Assyria; seeking sometimes to the one...
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria. Ver. 36. Why gaddest thou _a_ about so much to change thy way?] Or, Changing th...
_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...
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? in forming alliances with her heathen neighbors. THOU ALSO SHALL BE ASHAMED OF EGYPT, whose vassal Israel was for a while, AS THOU WAST ASHAMED OF ASS...
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...
THY WAY, i.e. thy actions; a metaphor. SEE POOLE ON "JEREMIAH 2:33". Why dost thou shuffle thus with me, to seek auxiliaries any where, rather than to cleave to me, JEREMIAH 2:18; SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH...
Jeremiah 2:36 about H235 (H8799) much H3966 change H8138 (H8763) way H1870 ashamed H954 (H8799) Egypt...
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...
_Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way?_ LIVING TO PURPOSE I. The importance of having an object in life. There is a vast difference between the state of a man when running a race, and whe...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:36 Israel changes her political course of action (v. Jeremiah 2:18) very easily, but whoever she chooses (whether EGYPT or...
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 Chronicles 28:16; 2 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 28:21; Ezekiel 29:7;...