Jeremiah 2:4-8

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

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 2:8

The priests said not, where is the Lord ?.... Whose business it was to draw nigh to God, and offer the sacrifices of the people, and inquire of God for them; whose lips should keep knowledge, and at whose mouth the law should be sought, they being the messengers of the Lord of hosts, Malachi 2:7 , and they that handle the law knew me not ; the sanhedrim, according to Jarchi; or the lawyers and scribes, the Rabbins and doctors of the law, whose business it was to read and explain it;... 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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 2:8

They that handle the law - ותפשי vethophe shey , they that draw out the law; they whose office it is to explain it, draw out its spiritual meanings, and show to what its testimonies refer. The pastors also - Kings, political and civil rulers. Prophesied by Baal - Became his prophets, and were inspired with the words of lying spirits. read more

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