And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit of it and the goodness of it but when ye entered, ye defiled (h) my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
(h) By your idolatry and wicked manners, (Psalms 78:58; Psalms 106:38).
Verse Jeremiah 2:7. _AND I BROUGHT YOU INTO A PLENTIFUL COUNTRY_] The land of _Canaan_. _MY LAND_] The _particular property of God_, which he gave to them as an inheritance, they being his peculiar p...
A PLENTIFUL COUNTRY - literally, “a land of the Carmel,” a Carmel land (see 1 Kings 18:19, note; Isaiah 29:17, note)....
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...
A PLENTIFUL COUNTRY. a country of garden land. Hebrew the land of. Carmel. Compare Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 35:2....
_a plentiful land_ lit. _a land of the Carmel_. The word Carmel properly means a piece of ground fertile and well-cultivated (Jeremiah 4:26 R.V. mg.), but was commonly used as the actual name of one s...
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...
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. PLENTIFUL - literally...
2:7 land, (a-8) Heb. 'land of Carmel;' as ch. 4.26....
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...
A PLENTIFUL COUNTRY. — Literally, _a land of Carmel,_ that word, as meaning a vine-clad hill, having become a type of plenty. So “the forest of his Carmel,” in Isaiah 37:24; elsewhere, as in Isaiah 10...
וָ אָבִ֤יא אֶתְכֶם֙ אֶל ־אֶ֣רֶץ הַ כַּרְמֶ֔ל
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...
_Carmel. That is, a fruitful, plentiful land. (Challoner) (Worthington) --- All Palestine is thus designated. (Menochius)_...
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...
He afterwards adds, _And I brought you in, etc_. Here Jeremiah introduces God as the speaker; for God had, as with his hand stretched forth, brought in the children of Abraham into the possession of 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...
AND I BROUGHT YOU INTO A PLENTIFUL COUNTRY,.... "Into the land of Carmel", as in the Hebrew text; that is, "into the land of Israel, which was planted as Carmel,'' as the Targum paraphrases it; with...
And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination. Ver. 7. _And I brought y...
_And I brought you into a plentiful country_ Hebrew, _into the land of Carmel._ Carmel was so fertile a part of Judea, that the word from thence came to be used to express a fruitful place in general....
ISRAEL'S LACK OF FAITHFULNESS...
And I brought you into a plentiful country, a well-cultivated and fruitful land, TO EAT THE FRUIT THEREOF AND THE GOODNESS THEREOF, to enjoy all the blessings it offered to the full; BUT WHEN YE ENTER...
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....
PLENTIFUL COUNTRY, Heb. LAND OF CARMEL, ISAIAH 29:17; understand Canaan, NUMBERS 13:27: SEE POOLE ON "ISAIAH 35:2". TO EAT THE FRUIT THEREOF AND THE GOODNESS; to enjoy all the blessing of it. My land,
Jeremiah 2:7 brought H935 (H8686) bountiful H3759 country H776 eat H398 (H8800) fruit H6529 goodness H2898 entered...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 11:11; Deuteronomy 11:12; Deuteronomy 21:23; Deuteronomy 6:10;...
My land — Consecrated to my name; by your idols and many other abominations....