Jeremiah 2:34

blood, etc.] "The allusion may be to deaths due to miscarriage of justice or the result of exaction (Jeremiah 7:6; Jeremiah 22:3 end, 17; cf. Micah 3:10; Psalms 94:21), or to the sacrifice of children (see Jeremiah 19:4; cf. Psalms 106:38) or possibly to the martyrdoms under Manasseh (2 Kings 21:16; 2 Kings 24:4)." Dr.

I have not found it at the place of breaking in or perhaps not at house-breaking didst thou catch them. The allusion is to the law (Exodus 22:2) by which it was permitted to slay a thief caught in the act of breaking into a house. The persons whom Israel had thus treated were in no such position, but such was nevertheless their fate.

but upon all these The words are obscure and probably the text of the whole verse is corrupt. As it stands, "these" must refer to the misdeeds indicated or to the (bloodstained) "skirts" incriminating the offenders. By a slight modification of the MT. we get the LXX rendering of "all these," viz. every oak. This, however, can hardly be defended.