Jeremiah 8:2

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-3

These verses might fitly have been joined to the close of the foregoing chapter, as giving a further description of the dreadful desolation which the army of the Chaldeans should make in the land. It shall strangely alter the property of death itself, and for the worse too. I. Death shall not now be, as it always used to be?the repose of the dead. When Job makes his court to the grave it is in hope of this, that there he shall rest with kings and counsellors of the earth; but now the ashes of... read more

John Gill

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

And they shall spread them before the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven ,.... The stars. This shows, not only that they should be publicly exposed; but, as it refers to their idolatrous worship of the sun, moon, and stars, that these deities will not be able to help them; as they could not prevent their dead bodies being dug up, so neither could they order or cause them to be gathered together, and buried again: whom they have loved ; whereas they ought to have loved the Lord... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 8:2

Verse 2 It was, because they served the sun, and the moon, and the stars It was God’s just vengeance, that their bones should be taken from their graves, in order that the sun and moon and all the stars might be witnesses of his judgment. By these words Jeremiah indirectly reprobates the senselessness of the people for thinking that they performed an acceptable service to the sun and moon. He therefore says, that all the stars and the planets would become as it were spectators of the vengeance... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-2

The bones of the dead idolaters cast out before their cities. I. ASK HOW THIS SPOLIATION COMES TO PASS . One cannot suppose that it came by the intention of Jehovah. Rather would it arise as a necessary part of wholesale pillage. Considerable treasures might be lying in the tombs of these grandees of Israel, and much might also have been hidden in them for purposes of safety, and therefore, seeing that this hideous devastation had to happen, it was fitting to call... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-3

Punishment will even overtake the sinners who have long since been deceased. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:2

And they shall spread them , etc. Not as an act of solemn mockery, for the agents are idolaters themselves, but God so overrules the passions of his unconscious instruments that no more effective ceremonial could have been devised. Whom they have loved , etc. The prophet is designedly diffuse in his description. With all their misspent zeal, these unhappy idolaters cannot even find tombs. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 8:2

Befooled indeed. This is what we say when We see men giving heed to the plausible statements of gross impostors, and, in consequence, lavishing their time, energy, and wealth in the hope of large recompense; but who, when the time comes that the hoped-for gain should be theirs, find themselves deceived, defrauded, helpless, and utterly ruined men. These are they who are the prey of bubble companies, lying advertisements, and the other ten thousand frauds into which unwary persons are... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 8:2

Loved ... served ... walked ... sought ... worshipped - There is great force in the piled-up verbs by which their worship of the heavenly bodies is described. The prophet beginning with the heart’s “love” describes that worship) in the various stages of its development, and then contrasts its fulness with the miserable reward which ensues. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 8:1-2

Jeremiah 8:1-2. At that time, &c. The first three verses of this chapter properly belong to the preceding, and ought not to have been separated from it. They shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah “The Chaldeans shall regard neither the living nor the dead. They shall put the living to death without remorse; and shall break open and defile the tombs of the dead, in hopes of finding riches deposited there. They shall cast them out of their sepulchres, and leave them upon the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 8:1-3

No hope for an idolatrous people (7:16-8:3)God now tells Jeremiah that it is useless for him to persist in praying for the safety of the Judeans. They have so given themselves to idolatrous practices that nothing can save them from God’s judgment. Throughout the cities and towns of Judah people worship foreign gods, but in the process they harm themselves (16-19). The harm will be much greater when God’s judgment falls on them (20).While openly worshipping heathen gods, the people also offer... read more

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