Plead — By his judgments, and by his prophets, as he did with their fathers, that they may be left without excuse. Children — God often visits the iniquities of the parents upon the children, when they imitate their parents.
Verse Jeremiah 2:9. _I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU_] אריב _arib_, I will maintain my _process_, vindicate my own conduct, and prove the wickedness of yours....
PLEAD - The word used by the plaintiff setting forth his accusation in a law-court (see Job 33:13 note). WITH YOU - The present generation, who by joining in Manasseh’s apostasy have openly violated Y...
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...
PLEAD. argue, contend. CHILDREN'S CHILDREN. sons' sons....
_plead_ rather, CONTEND, as both A.V. and R.V. rightly render in Isaiah 49:25; Isaiah 50:8. To the modern ear the word "plead" suggests intercession, entreaty, a sense which the Hebrew verb never bear...
I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU— That is, _I_ will maintain by arguments the equity of my proceedings, and the injustice of yours....
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...
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. YET PLEAD - namely, by inflicting still further judgments on you. CHILDREN'S CHILDREN - three...
PLEAD] 'argue,' or 'contend.'...
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...
I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU. — We hear, as it were, the echo of the words of Hosea 2:2. The injured lord and husband will appear as the accuser of the faithless bride, and set forth her guilt as in an i...
לָכֵ֗ן עֹ֛ד אָרִ֥יב אִתְּכֶ֖ם נְאֻם ־יְהוָ֑ה...
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...
Wherefore I will yet (n) plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead. (n) Signifying that he would not as he might, straightway condemn them, but shows them by evid...
_Children; the Israelites, under Moses, and their posterity transgressed._...
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...
The particle עוד _oud, _yet, or still, is not without weight; for the Prophet intimates, that if God had already punished the perfidy and wickedness of the people, he still retained whole his right to...
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...
WHEREFORE I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU, SAITH THE LORD,.... Either verbally, by reasoning with them, and reproving them for their ignorance, stupidity, and idolatry; or by deeds, inflicting punishment up...
_Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the LORD, and with your children's children will I plead._ Ver. 9. _I will yet plead with you,_] _i.e., _ Debate the case with you, and set you down by sou...
_Wherefore I will yet plead with you_ By my prophets, and by my judgments, as I pleaded with your fathers, that you may be left without excuse. _And with your children's children will I plead_ Accordi...
ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, by citing them before His tribunal and pronouncing judgment upon them, AND WITH YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN WILL I PLEAD, since they follow their pare...
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...
I WILL YET PLEAD WITH YOU: this is to be understood either really, by his judgments, PSALMS 74:22, and that with great severities; or verbally, he will go on to deal with them, to convince them by his...
Jeremiah 2:9 charges H7378 (H8799) says H5002 (H8803) LORD H3068 childrens H1121 children H1121 charges H7378 ...
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 2:9 Given this situation, God will CONTEND with Israel. This word introduces the idea of a lawsuit (Jeremiah 25:31; compare...
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...
Exodus 20:5; Ezekiel 20:35; Ezekiel 20:36; Hosea 2:2; Isaiah 3:13;...