Jeremiah 2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:33

Why trimmest thou thy way - Ye have used a multitude of artifices to gain alliances with the neighboring idolatrous nations. Hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways - Ye have made even these idolaters worse than they were before. Dr. Blayney translates, "Therefore have I taught calamity thy ways." A prosopopoeia: "I have instructed calamity where to find thee." Thou shalt not escape punishment. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:34

The blood of the souls of the poor innocents - We find from the sacred history that Manasseh had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; see 2 Kings 21:16 , and Ezekiel 34:10 . I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these - Such deeds of darkness and profligacy are found only in Israel. Dr. Blayney translates, "I have not found it in a digged hole, but upon every oak." Others cover the blood that it may not appear; but ye have shed it openly, and sprinkled it upon your... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:35

Because I am innocent - They continued to assert their innocence, and therefore expected that God's judgments would be speedily removed! I will plead with thee - I will maintain my process, follow it up to conviction, and inflict the deserved punishment. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:36

Why gaddest thou about - When they had departed from the Lord, they sought foreign alliances for support. The Assyrians 2 Chronicles 28:13-21 ; but they injured instead of helping them. The Egyptians: but in this they were utterly disappointed, and were ashamed of their confidence. See Jeremiah 37:7-8 ; (note), for the fulfillment of this prediction. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:37

Thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head - Thou shalt find all thy confidence in vain, - thy hope disappointed; - and thy state reduced to desperation. The hand being placed on the head was the evidence of deep sorrow, occasioned by utter desolation. See the case of Tamar, when ruined and abandoned by her brother Amnon, 2 Samuel 13:19 . Thou shalt not prosper in them - They shall all turn to thy disadvantage; and this as we shall see in the history of this people,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:2

Verse 2 God now mentions to his servant the commands which he was to convey to the king and priests, and to the whole people; for by the ears of Jerusalem he means all its inhabitants. God here intimates that the Jews were unworthy of being cared for by him any more; but that he is induced by another reason not to reject them wholly, until he had found out by experience their irreclaimable wickedness. So then he makes this preface, I remember thee for the kindness of thy youth, and the love of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:3

Verse 3 God here more clearly reprobates the ingratitude of the people: and first he enumerates his favors by which he had bound the people for ever to himself; and secondly, he shews how malignantly the people responded to the many blessings which they had received. In saying, then, that Israel was holy, he intends it not by way of honor. It was indeed in itself an illustrious testimony to their praise, that God had consecrated that people to himself, that he designed them to be the first —... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:4

Verse 4 Here God explains why he had referred to what we have noticed, — that he had consecrated Israel to himself as a peculiar people, and as the first — fruits. God often mentions his favors to us, in order to encourage our hope, that we may be fully persuaded that whatever may happen we are ever safe, because we are under his protection, since he has chosen us. But in this place, and in many other places, God recounts the obligations under which the Israelites were to him, that thence their... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:5

Verse 5 Then follows the charge: What, iniquity have your fathers found in me, that having forsaken me they should walk after vanity and become vain? Here Jeremiah charges the people with two crimes, — that they had departed from the true God, whom they had found to be a deliverer, — and that they had become vain in their devices; or, in other words, that they were become for no reason apostates: for their sin was enhanced, because there had been no occasion given them to forsake God, and to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:6

Verse 6 The Prophet goes on with the same subject; for God adduces here no small crime against his people, as they had buried his favom’s in oblivion. Indeed, a redemption so wonderful was worthy of being celebrated in all ages, not only by one nation, but by all the nations of the earth. As then the Jews had thus buried the memory of a favor so remarkable and valuable, their base impiety appeared evident. Had they not experienced the power and kindness of God, or had they only witnessed them... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:33

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:34

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:35

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:36

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:37

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:2

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:5

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:6

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