Jeremiah 2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:34

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 they slew, because they faithfully reproved them for their sins; and the blood of those being found in their skirts is expressive of the publicness and notoriety of their sin, and also of the large quantity of blood shed, inasmuch as the skirts of their garments were filled with it, as if they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:35

Yet thou sayest, because I am innocent ,.... Or, "that I am innocent"; though guilty of such flagrant and notorious crimes, acting like the adulterous woman, Proverbs 30:20 to whom the Jews are all along compared in this chapter; which shows the hardness of their hearts, and their impudence in sinning: surely his anger shall turn from me ; the anger of God, since innocent; or, "let his anger be turned from me", as the Septuagint and Arabic versions; pleading for the removing of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:36

Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? .... Or, "by changing thy way" F20 לשנות דרכיך "mutando viam tuam", Vatablus, Piscator, Junius & Tremellius. ; sometimes going one way, and sometimes another; sometimes to Egypt, and then to Assyria; seeking sometimes to the one for help, and sometimes to the other; at one time serving the gods of the one, in order to curry favour with them, and then the gods of the other, like a lascivious woman that gads about from place to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:37

Yea, thou shalt go forth from him ,.... From the Egyptian, without any help, and with shame; or, "from this" F21 מאת זה "ab hoc, sub. loco", Gataker; "ab ista", Munster, Grotius; "sub. terra, etiam hinc exibis", Cocceius. ; that is, from this place, from Jerusalem, and from the land of Judea, into captivity; notwithstanding all the promised and expected help from Egypt, 2 Kings 24:7 , and thine hands upon thine head ; plucking and dishevelling the hair, as women in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2

God expresses his continued regard for his people, long since chosen, Jeremiah 2:1-3 . He then expostulates with them on their ungrateful and worse than heathen return to his regard, Jeremiah 2:4-11 ; at which even the inanimate creation must be astonished, Jeremiah 2:12 , Jeremiah 2:13 . After this their guilt is declared to be the sole cause of the calamities which their enemies had power to inflict on them, Jeremiah 2:14-17 . They are upbraided for their alliances with idolatrous... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:2

I remember thee - The youth here refers to their infant political state when they came out of Egypt; they just then began to be a people. Their espousals refer to their receiving the law at Mount Sinai, which they solemnly accepted, Exodus 24:6-8 , and which acceptance was compared to a betrothing or espousal. Previously to this they were no people, for they had no constitution nor form of government. When they received the law, and an establishment in the Promised Land, then they became a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holiness unto the Lord - Fully consecrated to his service. The first fruits of his increase - They were as wholly the Lord's, as the first fruits were the property of the priests according to the law Numbers 18:13 . These the priests alone had a right to devote to their own use. All that devour him shall offend - As they were betrothed to the Lord, they were considered his especial property; they therefore who injured them were considered as laying violent hands on the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:5

What iniquity have your fathers found in me - Have they ever discovered any thing cruel, unjust, oppressive in my laws? Any thing unkind or tyrannical in my government? Why then have they become idolaters? read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:6

Through the wilderness - Egypt was the house of their bondage: the desert through which they passed after they came out of Egypt, was a place where the means of life were not to be found; where no one family could subsist, much less a company of 600, 000 men. God mentions these things to show that it was by the bounty of an especial providence that they were fed and preserved alive. Previously to this, it was a land through which no man passed, and in which no man dwelt. And why? because it... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 people. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:35

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:36

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:37

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:5

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:7

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