What does Jeremiah 2:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress;e when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot."
Verse Jeremiah 2:20. _OF OLD TIME I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE_] It is thought by able critics that the verbs should be read in the _second person_ _singular, THOU hast broken thy yoke, THOU hast burst thy...
TRANSGRESS - Rather, as in marg. If the “yoke” and “bands” refer to the slavery in Egypt from which Yahweh freed Israel, the sense is - “For of old time I Yahweh broke thy yoke, I burst thy bands,” no...
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) 4...
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...
I WILL NOT TRANSGRESS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 19:8). TRANSGRESS. Hebrew. _'abar._. Homonym. Here. serve; else where. transgress. Not the same word as in verses: Jeremiah 1:29. HIGH HILL......
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 ha...
FOR OF OLD TIME, &C.— _I indeed long since have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; but thou saidst, I will not serve: upon every high hill, and under every green tree, I will lay myself down, and p...
D. Pointed Accusation Jeremiah 2:20-28 TRANSLATION (20) For from of old you have broken your yoke, you have burst your bands and you said, I will not serve. For upon every high hill and under every g...
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 harlot. I. The...
2:20 broken (f-6) Or 'I had broken.'...
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...
I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE. — Better, with the LXX. and Vulg., _thou hast broken thy yoke_ — _i.e.,_ cast off all allegiance and restraint. The Authorised Version, which follows the received Hebrew readin...
כִּ֣י מֵ עֹולָ֞ם שָׁבַ֣רְתִּי עֻלֵּ֗ךְ נִתַּ֨קְתִּי֙ מֹוסְרֹתַ֔יִךְ וַ תֹּאמְרִ֖י לֹ֣א _אֶעֱבֹ֑ור_† כִּ֣י עַֽל ־כָּל...
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...
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, (f) I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. (f)...
_Thou. Septuagint. Yet Hebrew and Chaldean have, "I have permissively broken," or foretold this infidelity._...
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...
As there are two readings in Hebrew, two meanings are given; for some think the verb to be, עבד _ob _e_d, _and others, עבר _ob _e_r, _the two letters being very similar. If we read, “I will not pass o...
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...
FOR OF OLD TIME I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE, AND BURST THY BANDS,.... The yoke of the people, as the Targum expresses it, that was upon their necks, and the bands in which they were bound by them; referrin...
_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 harlot._ Ver....
_For of old time I have broken thy yoke_ That is, I have delivered thee from the bondage and tyranny that thou wast under, of old time, in Egypt; as also divers times besides. See the book of Judges....
For of old time I have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands, rather, "For from ancient times thou hast broken thy yoke and burst thy bands," namely, the laws and ordinances of God; AND THOU SAIDST, I W...
TRANSGRESS: Or, serve...
20-28 Notwithstanding all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. Men are often as much under the power of their unbridled desires and their sinful lusts, as...
OF OLD TIME I HAVE BROKEN THY YOKE, i.e. the bondage and tyranny that thou wert under in old time in Egypt, as also divers times besides, as appears through the Book of Judges. The Hebrew elam, that s...
Jeremiah 2:20 old H5769 broken H7665 (H8804) yoke H5923 burst H5423 (H8765) bonds H4147 said H559 (H8799) transgress H5674 (H8799) (H8675) H5647 (H8799) high H1364 hill H1389 green H7488 tree H6086 do...
THEY HAD BROKEN FREE FROM YHWH TO WORSHIP FALSE GODS AND HAD THEREBY BECOME DEFILED WITH A DEFILEMENT AND A DEGENERACY THAT THEY COULD NOT REMOVE, WHILE STILL INCREDIBLY CLAIMING THAT THEY HAD NOT BRO...
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 fo...
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...
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...
1 Kings 12:32; 1 Samuel 12:10; Deuteronomy 12:2; Deuteronomy 15:15; Deuteronomy 26:17; Deuteronomy 4:20; Deuteronomy 4:34; Deuteronomy 5:27; Exodus 19:8;...
Broken — The bondage and tyranny that thou wert under in old time in Egypt, as also divers times besides. Tree — Under these shades idolaters thought there lay some hidden deity. Wanderest — The word...