耶利米書 2:11-13 RCUVTS

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-37

It is always interesting to notice how later inspired writers hasten to do honor to their predecessors. Originality is not an object with the prophets, but rather the developing and adapting the truths long ago "delivered." The whole group of prophecies to which Jeremiah 2:1-37 . belongs contains numerous points of contact, in ideas or phraseology, with the song of Hoses ( Deuteronomy 32:1-52 .). The following have been indicated:—Cf. Jeremiah 2:5 with Deuteronomy 32:4 ; ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:10-11

Heathendom gives an unconscious rebuke to apostate Israel. From humiliating contrast of the present conduct of Israel with what might have been reasonably expected from the peculiar experiences of the past, God now turns to make a contrast more humiliating still with heathen nations. The request to look back is succeeded by a request to look round . Search through every nation, inquire in every idol temple, watch the religious life of idolaters, and everywhere you will see a fidelity... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:10-13

The marvel of unbelief. A magnificent apostrophe. Yet this is no mere rhetoric. There is a terrible reality in the phenomenon to which attention is directed. Chittim, the general name of the islands and coast of the eastern Mediterranean, stands for the extreme west; and Kedar, the general name of the Arabs of the desert for the extreme east of the "world," with which the prophet and his hearers were familiar. Our "from China to Peru" would represent its meaning to us. I. THE ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:11

Hath a nation changed their gods ? Has any heathen nation ever changed its idol-god for another? The prophet clearly implies a negative answer; and yet it must be admitted that the adoption of a new religion, under the pressure of conquest or a higher foreign civilization is not an unknown phenomenon in the ancient world. Glory; i . e . source of all outward prosperity (comp. Psalms 3:3 ," my Glory, and the Lifter up Of my head"). Religion was, in fact, the root of national life in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:12

Be astonished . "Be appalled" would more nearly express the force of the Hebrew (so Jeremiah 18:16 ; Jeremiah 19:8 ). Be ye very desolate ; literally, become dry; i . e . not so much "shrivel and roll up" (on the analogy of Isaiah 34:4 ), as "become stiff with horror." read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

Two evils . Israel has not merely offended, like the heathen, by idolatry, but by deserting the only God who can satisfy the needs of human nature. The fountain of living waters . So Jeremiah 17:13 (comp. Psalms 36:9 ). Fountain; literally, tank or reservoir . Such reservoirs were "dug in the ground (see on Jeremiah 6:7 ), and chiefly intended for storing living waters, i . e . those of springs and rivulets" (Payne Smith). Cisterns, broken cisterns. A cistern, by its very... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

Broken cisterns. I. ALL MEN NEED SPIRITUAL REFRESHMENT . The soul has its thirst ( Psalms 63:1 ). 1. This is natural. We are born with instincts which reach out to the unseen, and the worldly habits which deaden these instincts cannot utterly eradicate them. If they could, we should cease to be men and become merely rational brutes, for "man is a religious animal." 2. This is intensified by the presence of life . Thirst is increased by a heated atmosphere, hard... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

Forsaking the fountain of living waters. I. THERE IS SUGGESTED HERE AN INCONCEIVABLE ACT OF FOLLY . It is a thing which could be believed of no one in his sound senses that he would leave a fountain of living water, knowing it to be such, and enjoying the use of it; and be contented with a cistern such as is here described. A fountain is that from which he benefits without any trouble; it is a pure gift of grace, and all he has to do is to take up his habitation by it.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

The people's sin. This is the sum and substance of the charge the prophet was called to bring against Israel. Idolatry was their destroying sin, the root of all their discords and miseries. It involved the renunciation of their allegiance to the God of their fathers, and in this their conduct was without a parallel. No instance of such apostasy could be found elsewhere. Those whom God had chosen to be witnesses for him before all the world were put to shame in this respect by the very... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:11

A nation - A Gentile nation, in strong antithesis to people, the appellation of Israel.Their glory - Though the worship of the one true God is a nation’s greatest glory, yet it is irksome because it puts a constraint on human passions.That which doth not profit - Israel had exchanged the prosperity which was God’s reward of obedience for the calamities which resulted from idol-worship. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-37

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:10-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:10-13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 2:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:11

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