Jeremiah 2:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:14

Jeremiah 2:14. Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? Is he of a condition to be delivered as a prey to his enemies? Is he of those people whom God regards as slaves and strangers? These interrogations imply, and have the force of, a negative. As if he had said, Is not Israel the son, the chosen and peculiar people of God? Why then hath the Lord treated him as a common slave, and given him up into the power of tyrannical lords and masters? The sense is, God redeemed Israel from the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-19

A nation’s unfaithfulness (2:1-19)While Josiah was reconstructing the outward form of Judah’s religion, Jeremiah was searching into the deeply rooted attitudes of the people and trying to bring about a truly spiritual change. He contrasts the nation’s present sad condition with its devotion to God in former days. Israel once loved God, as a bride loves her husband. She was like the firstfruits of the harvest that belonged to God, and those who plundered her were punished (2:1-3).God now... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Jeremiah 2:14

servant? . . . slave? They were treated as such by Assyria, and afterward by Egypt. spoiled = become a spoil. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:14

"Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a slave? The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant. The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head. Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way? And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Jeremiah 2:14

Jeremiah 2:14. Is Israel a servant?— "Is he of a condition to be delivered as a prey to his enemies? Is he of those people whom God regards as slaves and strangers? Is he not the son, the chosen and peculiar people of God? Why then hath the Lord treated him as a common slave?" &c. See Joh 8:33 and Calmet. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:14

14. is he a homeborn slave—No. "Israel is Jehovah's son, even His first-born" ( :-). Jeremiah 2:16; Jeremiah 2:18; Jeremiah 2:36, and the absence of any express contrast of the two parts of the nation are against EICHORN'S view, that the prophet proposes to Judah, as yet spared, the case of Israel (the ten tribes) which had been carried away by Assyria as a warning of what they might expect if they should still put their trust in Egypt. "Were Israel's ten tribes of meaner birth than Judah?... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 2:14-15

Israel was Yahweh’s "firstborn son," not a slave or even a homeborn servant. People paid to purchase slaves for a period of service in Israel, but homeborn servants belonged to their masters as personal possessions (Exodus 21:1-6). [Note: See The New Bible Dictionary, 1962 ed., s.v. "Slave, Slavery," by Kenneth A. Kitchen.] As a firstborn son, Israel enjoyed the special care and provisions of the Lord. Then why had he become a prey to enemies? Enemy rulers, like young lions, had threatened and... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Jeremiah 2:14-19

Israel’s perverse conduct 2:14-19Perverse conduct was the consequence of Israel’s apostasy and infidelity, and it led to slavery. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:1-30

The Prophet Sets Forth the Sin of the Nation and Points Out the Inevitable Result (Reign of Josiah, and Probably Before the Reforms of that King: cp. Jeremiah 3:6)This section furnishes us with the gist of the prophet’s testimony during the early years of his ministry, and doubtless represents the commencement of the roll written by Baruch at Jeremiah’s dictation. In these five chapters he lays before his hearers the grossness of their conduct in deserting Jehovah, and urges repentance and... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:1-37

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 His past favours, and charges them with faithlessness to their first love, as shown by their idolatry.2. The kindness of thy youth, etc.] Israel’s earliest devotion to Jehovah at Sinai (Exodus 24:8).3. Firstfruits of.. increase] i.e. the consecrated part. All that devour, etc.] The priest and his family... read more

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