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I HAVE NOT FOUND IT ... - Rather, thou didst not find them breaking
into thy house. The meaning is, that these poor innocents had
committed no crime: they were not thieves caught in the act, whom the...
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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)...
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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...
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BLOOD. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Subject), for the
guilt of bloodshedding.
SOULS. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13.
POOR. helpless. Hebrew. _'ebyon._ See note on Proverbs 6:11.
IT: i.e. t...
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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...
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_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; Ps
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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...
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Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor
innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
ALSO. Not only art thou polluted with idolatry, but also with the...
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2:34 these. (a-29) Or '... innocent poor; I have not found it by
violently breaking in [i.e. into secret places], but upon all these.'
For sense see Exodus 22:2 ,Exodus 22:3 ....
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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...
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POOR INNOCENTS] RV 'the innocent poor.'
BY SECRET SEARCH] RV 'at the place of breaking in.' The allusion is to
the law (Exodus 22:2) by which it was permissible to slay a thief
caught in the act of br...
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ALSO IN THY SKIRTS... — The general meaning is clear, and points to
the guilt of Israel in offering her children — the “poor
innocents” — in horrid sacrifice to Molech; perhaps, also, to her
maltreatm...
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גַּ֤ם בִּ כְנָפַ֨יִךְ֙ נִמְצְא֔וּ
דַּ֛ם נַפְשֹׁ֥ות...
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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...
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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...
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Also in thy (x) skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor
innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
(x) The prophets and the faithful are slain in every corner of...
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_Innocent children, immolated to Moloc, or people murdered, whose
blood thou hast not concealed, 4 Kings xxi. 16._...
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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...
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The Prophet repeats, as I think, what he had before said, — that the
wickedness of his nation was incorrigible; for they repented not when
warned, but on the contrary raged like wild beasts against th...
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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...
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ALSO IN THY SKIRTS IS FOUND THE BLOOD OF THE SOULS OF THE POOR
INNOCENTS,.... Either of the innocent infants of poor persons, who
were sacrificed to Moloch; or of the poor prophets of the Lord, whom
t...
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Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor
innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
Ver. 34. _Also in thy skirts._] In the skirts of thy garments. Heb....
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_Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love_ “The prophet,” says
Lowth, “alludes to the practices of common harlots, who deck
themselves, and use all inveigling arts, that they may recommend
themselves to...
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Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor
innocents, of holy men and prophets who dared to reprove Israel for
her sins. I HAVE NOT FOUND IT BY SECRET SEARCH, such a careful
scruti...
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THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
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SECRET SEARCH:
_ Heb._ digging...
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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...
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IN THY SKIRTS, viz. of thy garments; a synecdoche of the kind; the
tokens of thy cruelty may be seen openly there: or, in _thy hands_, as
the LXX.: or a metaphor from birds of rapine, whose wings are...
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Jeremiah 2:34 skirts H3671 found H4672 (H8738) blood H1818 lives H5315
poor H34 innocents H5355 found H4672 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 2:34 Covenant infidelity always leads to
ethical infidelity. God has FOUND THE LIFEBLOOD OF THE GUILTLESS POOR
on Israel’s SKIRTS ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Kings 21:16; 2 Kings 24:4; Ezekiel 16:20; Ezekiel 16:21; Ezeki
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Skirts — Of thy garments: the tokens of cruelty may be seen openly
there. Innocents — In thee is found the murder expressed here by
blood of innocent persons, murdering souls as well as bodies. Search...