Jeremiah 2:1-19 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-8

Here is, I. A command given to Jeremiah to go and carry a message from God to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He was charged in general (Jer. 1:17) to go and speak to them; here he is particularly charged to go and speak this to them. Note, It is good for ministers by faith and prayer to take out a fresh commission when they address themselves solemnly to any part of their work. Let a minister carefully compare what he has to deliver with the word of God, and see that it agrees with it, that he... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:9-13

The prophet, having shown their base ingratitude in forsaking God, here shows their unparalleled fickleness and folly (Jer. 2:9): I will yet plead with you. Note, Before God punishes sinners he pleads with them, to bring them to repentance. Note, further, When much has been said of the evil of sin, still there is more to be said; when one article of the charge is made good, there is another to be urged; when we have said a great deal, still we have yet to speak on God's behalf, Job 36:2. Those... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:14-19

The prophet, further to evince the folly of their forsaking God, shows them what mischiefs they had already brought upon themselves by so doing; it had already cost them dear, for to this were owing all the calamities their country was now groaning under, which were but an earnest of more and greater if they repented not. See how they smarted for their folly. I. Their neighbours, who were their professed enemies, prevailed against them, and this was owing to their sin. 1. They were enslaved... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1

Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying. Here begins the book, and Jeremiah's first sermon; and the following contains the message he was sent with, to which the preceding chapter is only a preface or introduction. The Targum calls it, "the word of the prophecy from before the Lord.' read more

John Gill

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

Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem ,.... Of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the metropolis of Judea. The prophet seems now to have been at Anathoth, and therefore is bid to go from thence to Jerusalem, and there prophesy before the people in it, as the Targum paraphrases it: saying, thus saith the Lord, I remember thee ; the Lord never forgets his people, though they sometimes think he does; it cannot be for they are engraven on the palms of his hands, yea, are set as a seal on his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was holiness unto the Lord ,.... When first brought out of Egypt into the wilderness, by the Lord's choice and separation of them to be a holy people to him above all others; by covenant with him, and profession of him; and by his giving them holy laws, and placing a sanctuary among them; and by their high priest, who represented them in the most holy place; and had on the front of his mitre written, holiness unto the Lord ; so the spiritual Israel are chosen in Christ to be holy,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:4

Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel. The Lord, by the prophet, having observed his great kindness to this people, what they were unto him, and what a regard he had for them, proceeds to upbraid them with their ingratitude, and requires an attention to what he was about to say; all are called upon, because, all were guilty. This respects the two tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and the several families in them. The ten tribes had been long... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:5

Thus saith the Lord, what iniquity have your fathers found in me ,.... What injustice or injury has been done them? there is no unrighteousness in God, nor can any be done by him; or what unfaithfulness, or want of truth and integrity in performing promises, had they found in him? he never suffers his faithfulness to fail, or any of the good things he has promised. So the Targum, "what falsehood have your fathers found in my word?' none at all; God is a covenant keeping God: that they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:6

Neither said they, where is the Lord ?.... They did not ask after him, nor seek his face and favour, nor worship him, nor took any notice of the blessings he bestowed upon them: that brought us up out of the land of Egypt ? by means of Moses the deliverer, with a mighty hand, and outstretched arm; for, though Moses was the instrument, God was the efficient cause of the deliverance; the favour was his, and the glory of it ought to have been given to him: that led us through the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:7

And I brought you into a plentiful country ,.... "Into the land of Carmel", as in the Hebrew text; that is, "into the land of Israel, which was planted as Carmel,' as the Targum paraphrases it; with wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olives; a land flowing with milk and honey, Deuteronomy 8:8 , so Ben Melech: to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof ; of vineyards and oliveyards, which they had not planted, and for which they had never laboured, Joshua... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:9-13

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 2:14-19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:1

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:7

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