Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 2:6
Modern researches have shown that this description applies only to limited portions of the route of the Israelites through the Sinaitic peninsula.
Modern researches have shown that this description applies only to limited portions of the route of the Israelites through the Sinaitic peninsula.
Verse Jeremiah 2:6. _THROUGH THE WILDERNESS_] Egypt was the _house of their_ _bondage_: the _desert_ through which they passed after they came out of Egypt, was a place where the _means of life_ were...
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...
BROUGHT US UP. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 13:27; Numbers 14:7; Numbers 14:8; Deuteronomy 6:10;...
The prophet brings their thanklessness into bolder relief by depicting in the strongest colours the care lavished upon them of old. Utter forgetfulness is their return for the deliverance from Egyptia...
DISCOURSE: 1026 THE INGRATITUDE OF MEN Jeremiah 2:4. _Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers...
THROUGH A LAND OF DESARTS AND OF PITS— By the words ושׁוחה ערבה בארצ _beerets arabah veshuchah,_ it was undoubtedly meant to characterize the wilderness by some of its most unfavourable circumstances...
B. Present Apostasy Jeremiah 2:4-8 TRANSLATION (4) Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel. (5) This is what the LORD has said: What fault did your fat...
Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shad...
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...
THE SHADOW OF DEATH] RV 'deep darkness,' as referring to a region where the supply of the necessaries of life was so precarious that the fear of death was always present....
NEITHER SAID THEY. — In somewhat of the same tone as in Deuteronomy 8:15; Deuteronomy 32:10, the horrors of the wilderness are painted in vivid colours, to heighten the contrast with the land into whi...
וְ לֹ֣א אָמְר֔וּ אַיֵּ֣ה יְהוָ֔ה הַ מַּעֲלֶ֥ה
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...
UNGRATEFUL FORGETFULNESS Jeremiah 2:1-8; Jeremiah 26:1-24; Jeremiah 27:1-22; Jeremiah 28:1-17; Jeremiah 29:1-32; Jeremiah 30:1-24; Jeremiah 31:1-40; Jeremiah 32:1-44 God regarded
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...
Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of (g) the sh...
Having put his people in mind of what had passed; and given them to understand that the Lord had not forgotten the smallest tendencies of their affection towards him; he now begins to remonstrate with...
The Prophet goes on with the same subject; for God adduces here no small crime against his people, as they had buried his favom’s in oblivion. Indeed, a redemption so wonderful was worthy of being cel...
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...
NEITHER SAID THEY, WHERE IS THE LORD?.... They did not ask after him, nor seek his face and favour, nor worship him, nor took any notice of the blessings he bestowed upon them: THAT BROUGHT US UP OUT...
Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the sha...
_Hear, O house of Jacob_, &c. The prophet here directs his discourse to the twelve tribes, as he does afterward, Jeremiah 3:14, &c. For the captivity of the ten tribes was not so total but that there...
Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, that of Sinai, Paran, and Arabia, THROUGH A LAND OF DESERTS AND OF PITS, where cha...
ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
1-8 Those who begin well, but do not persevere, will justly be upbraided with their hopeful and promising beginnings. Those who desert religion, commonly oppose it more than those who never knew it....
NEITHER SAID, i.e. with themselves, thought not. BROUGHT US UP: the expression may have some respect to the situation of the place, as lying lower than Canaan; but the design is to reprove their sloth...
Jeremiah 2:6 say H559 (H8804) LORD H3068 up H5927 (H8688) land H776 Egypt H4714 led H3212 ...
YHWH REMINDS THEM OF THEIR SALVATION HISTORY AND BRINGS OUT THE INGRATITUDE OF THEIR RESPONSE (JEREMIAH 2:4). YHWH's initial complaint is that in spite of all that He has done for them in delivering t...
Jeremiah 2:6 There are three shameful possibilities in life. I. The possibility of dishonouring the great memories of life. The great memories of life are dishonoured (1) when the vividness of their...
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...
_What iniquity have your fathers found in Me._ THE EVIL NATURE OF SIN COMMITTED AFTER CONVERSION I. Violation of solemn vows and covenant engagements. At that time we took Christ’s cause for our cau...
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 2:6 The Israelites did not seek the Lord, the one whose sovereign power brought them UP FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT, the one who led them through A LAND OF DESERTS, PITS
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 2:14; Deuteronomy 32:10; Deuteronomy 8:14; Exodus 15:27;...
Neither — They never concerned themselves about what God had done for them, which should have engaged them to cleave to him. Of drought — Where they had no water but by miracle. Death — Bringing forth...