Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 2:15
Verse Jeremiah 2:15. The young lions roared upon him] The Assyrians, who have sacked and destroyed the kingdom of Israel, with a fierceness like that of pouncing upon their prey.
Verse Jeremiah 2:15. The young lions roared upon him] The Assyrians, who have sacked and destroyed the kingdom of Israel, with a fierceness like that of pouncing upon their prey.
UPON HIM - Rather, against him. Israel has run away from his master’s house, but only to find himself exposed to the beasts of prey in the wilderness. THEY MADE HIS LAND WASTE - The prophet points to...
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)...
ISRAEL'S FALSE RELIGION. Israel has forfeited the privileges of a son, and incurred disaster by forsaking Yahweh for the sensuous worship of the Baalim (_cf._ Jeremiah 2:20; Jeremiah 2:28). Jeremiah 2...
Israel's sin and obstinacy under punishment 14 17. Co. points out that Jeremiah 2:13 connects naturally with Jeremiah 2:18. The cisterns from which Israel has sought water proving unavailable, she has...
_The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled_ referring to the frequent Assyrian invasions. The lion was the symbol of Assyria (Nahum 2:12 f.). Cp. Isaiah 5:29 (of an attacking host). _burned up_...
THE YOUNG LIONS ROARED, &C.— _Against him lions shall roar: they have lifted up the voice and have made his land a desolation; his cities are burned, so as to be without an inhabitant. Also the childr...
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...
The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. LIONS - the Babylonian princes (; cf. ). The disaster from the Babylonians in th...
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 YOUNG LIONS, etc.] the enemies of Israel....
THE YOUNG LIONS ROARED... — The real answer to the question, that Israel had forsaken its true master, is given in Jeremiah 2:17. Here it is implied in the description of what the runaway slave had su...
עָלָיו֙ יִשְׁאֲג֣וּ כְפִרִ֔ים נָתְנ֖וּ קֹולָ֑ם וַ...
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...
The young (x) lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without (y) inhabitant. (x) The Babylonians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians. (y) Not one will be left...
_Lions; kings of Assyria, &c. The decree for the devastation of Juda had already passed, though it was not put in execution._...
I include all these verses under one view, as the doctrine is one and the same, though varied with several similitudes. But the whole is intended to show, to what a degenerate state the Church was red...
He afterwards adds, _Over him roar the lions. _The Prophet seems not simply to compare the enemies of Israel to lions on account of their cruelty, but also by way of contempt, as though he had said, t...
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...
THE YOUNG LIONS ROARED UPON HIM, AND YELLED,.... Or, "gave out their voice" e; meaning the kings of the nations, as the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi explain it; and are to be understood of the kings of...
The young lions roared upon him, [and] yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. Ver. 15. _The young lions roared upon him, and yelled,_] _i.e., _ The King of Ba...
_The young lions roared upon them_ Lions, in the figurative style of prophecy, denote powerful princes and conquerors; see Jeremiah 50:17; where the king of Assyria is mentioned as one of those lions...
Israel's Punishment and its Cause...
The young lions roared upon him and yelled, raising their voices in a roar of triumph, AND THEY MADE HIS LAND WASTE; HIS CITIES ARE BURNED WITHOUT INHABITANT. This is the condition of Israel which the...
YELLED: _ Heb._ gave out their voice...
14-19 Is Israel a servant? No, they are the seed of Abraham. We may apply this spiritually: Is the soul of man a slave? No, it is not; but has sold its own liberty, and enslaved itself to divers lust...
THE YOUNG LIONS; understand the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, &c., called LIONS from their fierceness, and young from their strength. See this JEREMIAH 4:7, JEREMIAH 50:17. ROARED UPON HIM, A...
Jeremiah 2:15 lions H3715 roared H7580 (H8799) growled H5414 (H8804) H6963 made H7896 (H8799) land...
IT IS POINTED OUT THAT IT IS BECAUSE OF THEIR INCREDIBLE BEHAVIOUR THAT THEY HAVE UNDERGONE, AND ARE UNDERGOING, THEIR PRESENT DISTRESSES (JEREMIAH 2:14). It is apparent from the words that follow tha...
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...
_The young lions roared upon him, and yelled._ DANGERS OUTSIDE THE DIVINE BOUNDS That comes of going from home, leaving sacred discipline, taking life into one’s own hand, assuming the mastership of...
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 2:15 The LIONS are nations like Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon that have made Israel’s cities lie IN RUINS, WITHOUT INHABITANT (vv....
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...
Amos 3:12; Amos 3:4; Amos 3:8; Ezekiel 5:14; Hosea 11:10;...
Lions — Understand the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, called lions from their fierceness, and young from their strength. Yelled — Noting the terrible voice that the lion puts forth, either in...