Salvation past consists in having our names written in the Lamb"s book of life before the foundation of the world. 2 Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, These bonds and yokes are what they would put on animals to keep control of them. For Israel from the first showed perversity rather than kindness towards God (compare Ex 14:11, 12; 15:24; 32:1-7, &c.). Those who desert religion, commonly oppose it more than those who never … Acts 7:39-43). and what were all his posterity? "The word `love' in this passage is a reference to Israel's love as a bride for God her husband." The “espousals” are thought of as coinciding with the great covenant of Exodus 24:8, when the people solemnly entered into the relation to which God called them. What iniquity have your fathers found in me?] Hosea 1-3). What was Abraham? Jerusalem — the headquarters and center of their idolatry; therefore addressed first. (2-3) What Jeremiah saw – the two baskets of figs. , etc. I remember thee.—Literally, I have remembered for thee. Jeremiah 17 Commentary | Generational Sin. 2. Or, "I remember," that is, I put thee in mind of the kindness that hath been between us. 16. SPECIAL TOPIC: INSPIRATION "Go and proclaim" One would think these are IMPERATIVES but they are not. (b) When I had delivered you out of Egypt. But it by no means follows, as has been too hastily assumed, that the prophet at that time left Anathoth to reside at Jerusalem, or that the latter was exclusively the sphere of his labours. Ew. They must weep sorely for Jehoahaz, who had gone into Egypt; not that there was any great loss of him to the public, as … hesed) Him devotedly when they were following Him through the wilderness from Egypt to the Promised Land. [Deuteronomy 5:27-28]. Hence God does not so much in this place commend the people for any merits of their own, but especially confirms what I have already stated, — that he could not cast aside every care for a people whom he had once adopted, and whom he had led through the desert, that they might be a people separated from the rest of the world. Bible commentary on the Book of Jeremiah, chapter 2, by Dr. Bob Utley, retired professor of hermeneutics. But cf. Jeremiah 2:4 "Israel was holy to the Lord , The first of His harvest. Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! thee—rather, "I remember in regard to thee" [Henderson]; "for thee" [Maurer]. See also Exodus 15:24; Exodus 32:1-7, The molten calf of gold). I will not now detain you with a long explanation, as the subject will be treated more at large in another place. when. So, with the timeline of the last five kings of Judah out of the way, let’s get into the introduction to the chapter in Jeremiah … Words in boxes are from the Bible. Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem — In the most public parts of the city, that all may hear; saying, Thus saith the Lord — I deliver his message, and not my own. And I brought you into a plentiful country — Hebrew, into the land of Carmel. tenderly this expression of loyal love, even as a husband remembers the pure and trustful days of an alienated or fallen wife. Here the remembrance is clearly used in the former sense. An EasyEnglish Bible Version and Commentary (2800 word vocabulary) on Jeremiah chapters 1 to 10. www.easyenglish.bible. John Trapp Complete Commentary. Israel Forsakes God. Jeremiah 22:24-28. But it by no means follows, as has been too hastily assumed, that the prophet at that time left Anathoth to reside at Jerusalem, or that the latter was exclusively the sphere of his labours. (w) "recordor tibi", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator; so Schmidt, and some in Vatablus; which is preferred by Gussetius, Ebr. 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 … When thou wentest after me.—Literally, thy going after me. 2 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the Lord says: “‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown. Josiah was prevented from seeing the evil to come in this world, and removed to see the good to come in the other world; therefore, weep not for him, but for his son Shallum, who is likely to live and die a wretched captive. Richard Niell Donovan. The choice of the verb אכליו is also to be explained from the figure of firstling-offerings. Hosea 11:1; Hosea 2:19, Hosea 2:20. The word חסר, ch es ad, properly means a gratuitous favor or kindness, which is shewn to the miserable, or beneficence. 2:6 When you went after Me in the wilderness, In a land not sown. Even though the Israelites were not completely faithful to the Lord in the wilderness, their commitment to Him then was much stronger then than it was in Jeremiah"s day. 15. lions--the Babylonian princes ( Jeremiah 4:7; compare Amos 3:4). 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Then the bride was ready to follow her lord and husband even in an “unsown land”—the “waste howling wilderness” of Deuteronomy 32:10. Ver. Hilda Bright. Jump to: Adam Clarke Commentary; Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible; John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible; Geneva Study Bible; Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the … Comment. For in Jeremiah 2:2 it is plainly enough told how God remembered to the people its love. Ewald takes the "kindness" and "love" to be Israel's towards God at first (Ex 19:8; 24:3; 35:20-29; 36:5; Jos 24:16-17). Jeremiah 2 Bible Commentary. — Ed. Augustus might have some such meaning in those last words of his to his wife when he lay a dying, ‘O Livia, remember our marriage, and adieu.’ It is thought she had a hand in setting him going, and that she was too familiar with Eudemus the physician. And part of what makes it that way is the fact that they pass down their sin from generation to generation, as the Lord makes clear in Jeremiah 17:2. Jeremiah was a prophet. Ver. (27). Idealizing of this sort is found neither elsewhere in Jeremiah nor in any other prophet; nor is there anything of the kind in our verse, if we take up rightly the sense of it and the thread of the thought. espousals — the intervals between Israel‘s betrothal to God at the exodus from Egypt, and the formal execution of the marriage contract at Sinai. Jeremiah 2:7-8. The whole of this may be applied to the case of God's people at first conversion, when they are as newly born babes, and become young men in Christ; at which time they are openly espoused to him, having been secretly betrothed in covenant before; but now, through the efficacy of the Spirit attending the word, they are made willing to give up themselves to the Lord, and are espoused to one husband, Christ, 2 Corinthians 11:2 at which time also great kindness and love is expressed both by the Lord to them, by quickening them who before were dead; by bringing them out of a most miserable condition; by speaking comfortably to them; by manifesting and applying his pardoning grace; and by openly taking them into his family: and also by them to him again; for the grace of love is then implanted, which, as it is hearty and sincere, is very ardent and fervent; which shows itself by parting with and bearing all for Christ; and by a concern for his company and presence; and by a regard to his people, Gospel, ways, and worship; particularly by following him in his ordinances with great zeal, fervency, and constancy, even though attended with many difficulties and discouragements; and though the way may seem to flesh and blood very unpleasant and unpromising; all which is remembered by the Lord when forgotten by them; and when their love is become cold to him, he not only remembers them, and his love to them, which is always the same, but also their love to him. Barnes, “Moreover - literally, And. The object here is to set forth the difference between the people when brought out of Egypt, and following God’s guidance in the wilderness, and their conduct at the time of Jeremiah. For if I myself should do it immediately from heaven, my stillest rhetoric would be too loud for them. Then the real meaning of the Prophet I think to be this, — that God here takes away every ground for pride and boasting from the Jews; as though he had said, that they were worthy, they had no reason to think; but that he was still their Father, and was therefore unwilling that the benefits he had formerly conferred upon them should be wholly lost. Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown. Jeremiah 2. 1. So, with three actions commanded and explained, and then the one cause that underlies those actions and the realities they symbolize, then in Jeremiah 16:13-18 the Lord gives two results – two things that will happen because of what we’ve just considered. John Trapp Complete Commentary. (16-17) Delivered from prison, Jeremiah delivers a message to King Zedekiah. 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour … By the word love, God means in many other places the gratuitous election with which he had favored the whole people. Biblical Commentary Jeremiah 2:4-13 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Assyria forced Israel, the northern kingdom, into exile in Assyria in 722 B.C. He however concedes to them, according to his great goodness, the praise of obedience, because they followed God through rough ways, as though a tender young woman refused not to undergo hard and irksome toils from love to her bridegroom. Hosea 1-3). Remember thee — The very words contain an implication of a lost joy — that the old love of the people had given place to alienation and infidelity. Their espousals refer to their receiving the law at Mount Sinai, which they solemnly accepted, Exodus 24:6-8, and which acceptance was compared to a betrothing or espousal. Of Jerusalem; declare God’s will to the inhabitants thereof; a metonymy of the subject. The greater were God's favours to them from the first, the fouler was their ingratitude in forsaking Him, (Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 2:5, etc.). Biblical Commentary; Español Comentario; Sermons; Children’s Sermons; Hymns; Jeremiah 2:1-13 Cracked Cisterns (Donovan) SW-Admin 2018-11-06T12:15:36-08:00. [5] The NIV renders this, "your love as a bride;" and Barnes' Notes on the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, a 1987 reprint of the 1878 edition) translated it, "your bridal love." This we learn from the Prophet’s words, when it is said, that God remembered the people on account of the kindness of their youth. saith the LORD. While Assyria left some of the populace of Israel in place, those people became assimilated with local tribes so that Israel (the northern kingdom) effectively ceased to exist as a nation. The love of thine espousals.—The imagery was one derived, as we find so often in Jeremiah’s writings, from the older prophets. “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 8:2, Deuteronomy 8:15, Deuteronomy 8:16). For in Jeremiah 2:2 it is plainly enough told how God remembered to the people its love. 2. 13a The faithfulness of the past is contrasted with the unfaithfulness of the present. GROTIUS thinks that Jeremiah here repeats to Zedekiah what he had announced to that king's predecessors formerly (namely, his brother and brother's son), of a similar bearing, and which had since come to pass; a warning to Zedekiah. The veil was upon her face ( Genesis 24:65), as the veil is upon the heart ( 2 Corinthians 3:15), until Jesus rends it in twain from the top to the bottom. Show content in: English Both Hebrew. When ye entered, ye defiled my land — By your sins, especially by your idolatries, Psalm 106:38; that sin … The kindness of thy youth.] 2. (Worthington). God’s Case Against Israel. The word translated “kindness” is often used in contexts dealing with covenant relationships. Jeremiah 36 Bible Commentary. How unreasonable was their apostasy! The love — When I entered into covenant with thee at the giving of the law. Well, when Pashur heard that message, Jeremiah 20:2… 2 Then Pashur [smote/had beaten/had flogged] Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the [high/upper] gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. I remember thee - The youth here refers to their infant political state when they came out of Egypt; they just then began to be a people. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. 2:7; Jer. Noph . 3 # (Ex. thou wentest after me in … wilderness—the next act of God's love, His leading them in the desert without needing any strange god, such as they since worshipped, to help Him (De 2:7; 32:12). Jeremiah 27 Commentary: Make Yokes and Bonds. Carmel was so fertile a part of Judea, that the word from thence came to be used to express a fruitful place in general. The Message to the House of David. David Guzik commentary on Jeremiah 2 describes the astonishing nature of Israel’s sin, and the emptiness and shame of Israel’s idolatry. Jeremiah 2. And, therefore, a betrothed virgin was punished as an adulteress by the Levitical law, if she was unfaithful to her espoused husband. The love of thine espousals, viz. Jeremiah 22 Commentary: Introduction. Jeremiah 2:2. Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2:1-8 Those who begin well, but do not persevere, will justly be upbraided with their hopeful and promising beginnings. The damsel had heard of the youth, but until then had never seen him; as seeking souls hear of Jesus by the hearing of the ear, before their eyes see him. Canaan was as one great, fruitful field, Deuteronomy 8:7. Go thou and cry. ] Now this is a remarkable passage; for God shews that his covenant, though perfidiously violated by the Jews, was yet firm and immutable: for though not all who derive their descent according to the flesh from Abraham, are true and legitimate Israelites, yet God ever remains true, and his calling, as Paul says, is without repentance. Who hast forgot thy first love and loyalty to me. Jeremiah 2:2 "Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land [that was] not sown." The practical meaning of יאשׁמוּ is given by the next clause: mischief came upon them. E.g., here is a portion of his comment on Jer 30:7 - "Jacob’s troubles shall … Jeremiah 2. I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren deserts. thee — rather, “I remember in regard to thee” [Henderson]; “for thee” [Maurer]. 2 [i.e., the hardness of Judah’s heart increases… All who ate of it became guilty; Evil came upon them," declares the Lord .'" And the same thing is confirmed in other words: When, he says, thou didst follow me in the desert, in a land not sown The people, we know, did not obey God as they ought to have done, even when he had redeemed them. What has led commentators, no doubt, to divert this passage from its right meaning was their impression that more is here ascribed to Israel than their history warrants. I remember thee.—Literally, I have remembered for thee. I remember thee, &c.— "I remember my first kindness to thee, when I delivered thee from the bondage of Egypt, and espoused thee to myself, to be my own peculiar people." Jeremiah 2 - NIV: The word of the LORD came to me: “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: “This is what the LORD says: “ ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown. Jeremiah contrasts the present unfriendly relations between Yahweh and His people with their past love. The parties exchanged rings, as pledges of mutual affection and eternal faithfulness. God compares himself here to a young bridegroom, who marries a youthful bride, in the flower of her age, and in the prime of her beauty: and it is a manner of speaking commonly adopted by the prophets. Jeremiah 22 – Speaking to the House of David A. Jeremiah 2:1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Jeremiah 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Grace in Christ is compared to water from a fountain, it being … 16:8; Hos. 3 It came also in the days of e Jehoiakim the son of Josiah , king of Judah , and f until the end of the eleventh year of g … E.g., here is a portion of his comment on Jer 30:7 - "Jacob’s troubles shall … The bridegroom gave his betrothed a piece of silver, as a pledge that all he had was hers. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible. קדשׁ are all gifts consecrated to Jahveh. Qui specie artis frequens secretis, saith Tacitus. Next » Chapter 3. kindness of thy youth — not so much Israel‘s kindness towards God, as the kindness which Israel experienced from God in their early history (compare Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 16:22, Ezekiel 16:60; Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:8, Ezekiel 23:19; Hosea 2:15). 2. Chapter 2. All who ate of it incurred guilt; disaster came upon them, declares the LORD.” . Jeremiah 2. 2. The kindness was that which God showed them by taking them to be his people, not their kindness to him. (2-3) What Jeremiah saw – the two baskets of figs. In other words, none will live forever with Christ in glory who are not betrothed to him in this life by the manifestations of himself to their soul. For thee Psalms 79:8 ; Psalms 106:45 you into a plentiful country — Hebrew, into the land Carmel. When you went after me in the ears of Jerusalem ; declare God s! 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