Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:19
Correct thee - Or, “chastise thee.” Alliances with foreign powers shall bring trouble and not safety. read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:20
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,” not that thou mightest be free to do thy own will, but that thou mightest serve me: “and thou saidst, I will not serve.”When ... - “For ... under every leafy tree thou” layest thyself down as a harlot. The verb indicates the eagerness with which she prostrates herself before the objects of her... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:21
A noble vine - Properly, a Sorek vine (see Isaiah 5:2), which produced a red wine Proverbs 23:31, and had a lasting reputation Genesis 49:11.A right seed - literally, “a seed of truth,” i. e., true, genuine seed, not mixed with weeds, nor with seed of an inferior quality. Compare Matthew 13:24.How then art thou turned - Or, “How then” hast thou changed thyself “unto me” (i. e., to my hurt or vexation) “into the degenerate” branches “of a strange vine?” The stock, which was God’s planting, was... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:22
Nitre - Or, natron, a mineral alkali, found in the Nile valley, where it effloresces upon the rocks and surfaces of the dykes, and in old time was carefully collected, and used to make lye for washing (see Proverbs 25:20).Sope - A vegetable alkali, now called “potash,” because obtained from the ashes of plants. Its combination with oils, etc., to form soap was not known to the Hebrews until long after Jeremiah’s time, but they used the lye, formed by passing water through the ashes. Thus then,... read more
Joseph Benson
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
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:15-16
Jeremiah 2:15-16. The young lions roared upon them Lions, in the figurative style of prophecy, denote powerful princes and conquerors; see Jeremiah 50:17; where the king of Assyria is mentioned as one of those lions which had devoured him, and Nebuchadnezzar as another. If we consider the prophet as speaking here of what was past, by the young lions he probably means the kings of Syria and Assyria, who laid the country waste, not only of the ten tribes, but also Judah and Benjamin; and... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:17
Jeremiah 2:17. Hast thou not procured this unto thyself? Are not all these calamities owing to thy sins, thy known and wilful sins? By their sinful confederacies with the nations, and especially their conformity to them in their idolatrous customs and usages, they had made themselves very mean and contemptible, as all those do that have made a profession of religion, and afterward throw it off. Nothing now appeared of that which, by their constitution, made them both honourable and... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:18
Jeremiah 2:18. And now what hast thou to do, &c. “The kings of Egypt and Assyria were the most potent monarchs in the neighbourhood of Judea; and according as either of these was the stronger, the Jews made their court to him, and desired his assistance. This is expressed by drinking the waters of Sihor, an Egyptian river, which some suppose, and Dr. Waterland renders, the Nile; (see note on Isaiah 42:0; Isaiah 3:0;) and of the Euphrates, called here the river, by way of... read more
Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 2:19
Jeremiah 2:19. Thy own wickedness shall correct thee The miseries that your own sins have brought upon you, one would suppose, might be sufficient to reclaim you from your evil courses, and induce you to return to God, by a sincere repentance, Hosea 2:7. Know therefore Upon the whole matter; and see that it is an evil thing that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God For that is the thing that makes thine enemies, enemies indeed, and thy friends, friends in vain. The sense of the clause... read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 2:18
Sihor - The Nile. To lean upon Egypt was a violation of the principles of theocracy.The two rivers are the two empires, and to drink their waters is to adopt their principles and religion. Compare also Isaiah 8:6-7. read more