Jeremiah 2:20-24

For of.

30:8; Ex 3:8; Le 26:13; De 4:20,34; 15:15; Isa 9:4; 10:27; 14:25

Na 1:13

and thou saidst.

Ex 19:8; 24:3; De 5:27; 26:17; Jos 1:16; 24:26-24; 1Sa 12:10

transgress. or, serve. when upon.

3:6; De 12:2; 1Ki 12:32; Ps 78:58; Isa 57:5-7; Eze 16:24,25,31

Eze 20:28

playing.

3:1,6-8; Ex 34:14-16; De 12:2; Isa 1:21; Eze 16:15,16,28,41; 23:5

Ho 2:5; 3:3

Yet I.

Ex 15:17; Ps 44:2; 80:8; Isa 5:1,2; 60:21; 61:3; Mt 21:33; Mr 12:1

Lu 20:9; Joh 15:1

wholly.

Ge 18:19; 26:3-5; 32:28; De 4:37; Jos 24:31; Ps 105:6; Isa 41:8

into the degenerate.

De 32:32; Isa 1:21; 5:4; La 4:1

For though.

Job 9:30,31

yet thine iniquity.

16:17; 17:1; De 32:34; Job 14:17; Ps 90:8; 130:3; Ho 13:12; Am 8:7

How canst.

34,35; Ge 3:12,13; 1Sa 15:13,14; Ps 36:2; Pr 28:13; 30:12,20

Lu 10:29; Ro 3:19; 1Jo 1:8-10; Re 3:17,18

see.

3:2; Ps 50:21; Eze 16:1-63; 23:1-49

valley.

7:31; Isa 57:5,6

thou art a swift. or, O swift.

Es 8:16

A wild ass. or, O wild ass, etc.

14:6; Job 11:12; 39:5-8

used. Heb. taught. her pleasure. Heb. the desire of herheart. turn her away. or, reverse it. in her mouth.

27; Ho 5:15

Jeremiah 3:1-2

1 God's great mercy in Judah's vile whoredom.

6 Judah is worse than Israel.

12 The promises of the gospel to the penitent.

20 Israel reproved, and called by God, makes a solemn confession of their sins.

They say. Heb. Saying. If a man.

De 24:1-4

shall not that.

9; 2:7; Le 18:24-28; Isa 24:5; Mic 2:10

but thou hast.

2:20,23; De 22:21; Jud 19:2; Eze 16:26,28,29; 23:4-49

Ho 1:2; 2:5-7

yet return.

12-14,22; 4:1,14; 8:4-6; De 4:29-31; Isa 55:6-9; Eze 33:11

Ho 14:1-4; Zec 1:3; Lu 15:16-24

Lift.

2:23; Eze 8:4-6; Lu 16:23

unto.

2:20; De 12:2; 1Ki 11:3; 2Ki 23:13; Eze 16:16,24,25; 20:28

In the.

Ge 38:14; Pr 7:11; 23:28; Eze 16:24,25

thou hast.

1,9; 2:7

Jeremiah 5:7-8

How shall.

3:19; Ho 11:8; Mt 23:37,38

sworn by.

12:16; Jos 23:7; Ho 4:15; Am 8:14; Zep 1:5

no gods.

2:11; De 32:21; 1Co 8:4; Ga 4:8

I had fed.

2:31; De 32:15; Eze 16:49,50; Ho 13:6; Jas 5:1-5

they then.

9:2; 13:27; 23:10; 29:22,23; Le 20:10; Ps 50:18; Eze 22:11

Ho 4:2,13,14; 7:4; Mal 3:5; 1Co 6:9; Heb 13:4; Jas 4:4

by troops.

Nu 25:1-3

every one.

13:27; Ge 39:9; Ex 20:14,17; De 5:18,21; 2Sa 11:2-4; Job 31:9

Mt 5:27,28

Ezekiel 16:15-22

thou didst.

33:13; De 32:15; Isa 48:1; Jer 7:4; Mic 3:11; Zep 3:11; Mt 3:9

and playedst.

20:8; 23:3,8,11,12-21; Ex 32:6-35; Nu 25:1,2; Jud 2:12; 3:6; 10:6

1Ki 11:5; 12:28; 2Ki 17:7; 21:3; Ps 106:35; Isa 1:21; 57:8; Jer 2:20

Jer 3:1; 7:4; Ho 1:2; 4:10; Re 17:5

because.Raised from the most abject state to dignity and splendour by Jehovah, Israel became proud of her numbers, riches, strength, and reputation, forgetting that it was "through his comeliness which he had put upon them;" and thus departing from God, made alliances with heathen nations, and worshipped their idols.

and pouredst.

25,36,37

7:20; 2Ki 23:7; 2Ch 28:24; Ho 2:8

hast also.

7:19; 23:14-21; Ex 32:1-4; Ho 2:13; 10:1

men. Heb. a male. and didst.

Isa 44:19,20; 57:7,8; Jer 2:27,28; 3:9 This seems to intimate that the Israelites not only spent their own wealth and abundance in building and decorating idol temples, and in maintaining their worship, but that they made use of the holy vestments, and the various kinds of offerings which belonged to Jehovah, in order to honour and serve the idols of the heathen.

10

meat.

13; De 32:14-17; Ho 2:8-13

a sweet savour. Heb. a savour of rest.

Ge 8:21; *marg:

thy sons.

21; 23:4; Ge 17:7; Ex 13:2,12; De 29:11,12

and these.

20:26,31; 23:37,39; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ch 33:6; Ps 106:37,38; Isa 57:5

Jer 7:31; 32:35; Mic 6:7

be devoured. Heb. devour. Is this.

8:17; Jer 2:34,35

my children.

Ps 106:37

to pass.

Le 18:21; 20:1-5; De 18:10; 2Ki 17:17; 21:6; 23:10

3-7,43,60-63; Jer 2:2; Ho 2:3; 11:1

Ezekiel 23:2-21

two.

16:44,46; Jer 3:7-10

in Egypt.

20:8; Le 17:7; De 29:16; Jos 24:14

in their.

8,19,21; 16:22; Ho 2:15

the names.The kingdom of Israel, of which Samaria was the capital, containing ten tribes, and occupying a larger extent of country than that of Judah, is therefore called "her elder sister;" and Aholah, the name given to her, implies that the whole religious establishment in Israel was a human invention, a temple and service of their own, and not of God's appointment. Aholibah, the name given to Judah, implies that the worship established there was from God, and that His temple was truly at Jerusalem.

the elder.

16:40; 1Ki 12:20

they were.

16:8,20; Ex 19:5,6; Ps 45:11-16; Jer 2:2,3; Ro 7:4

Aholah. that is, His tent, or tabernacle.

1Ki 12:26-33; Joh 4:22

Aholibah. that is, My tabernacle in her.

1Ki 8:29; Ps 76:2; 132:13,14

Aholah.The Israelites, in addition to their former gross idolatries, received the impure idolatrous worship of the Assyrians, who became their neighbours by the conquest of Syria.

1Ki 14:9,16; 15:26,30; 16:31,32; 21:26; 2Ki 17:7-18

doted.

7,9,12,16,20; 16:37; Jer 50:38

on the.

16:28; 2Ki 15:19; 16:7; 17:3; Ho 5:13; 8:9,10; 10:6; 12:1

all of.

12-15

committed her whoredoms with them. Heb. bestowed herwhoredoms upon them.

16:15

the chosen men of Assyria. Heb. the choice of the childrenof Asshur.

Ge 10:22

with all their.

30; 20:7; 22:3,4; Ps 106:39; Ho 5:3; 6:10

whoredoms.

3,19,21; Ex 32:4; 1Ki 12:28; 2Ki 10:29; 17:16

2Ki 15:29; 17:3-6,23; 18:9-12; 1Ch 5:26; Ho 11:5; Re 17:12,13,16

discovered.

29; 16:37-41; Ho 2:3,10

they took.

47

famous. Heb. a name.

48; Jer 22:8,9

her sister.

4; Jer 3:8

was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she. Heb. shecorrupted her inordinate love more than she. her sister in her whoredoms. Heb. the whoredoms of her sister.

16:47-51; Jer 3:8-11

upon.

5; 16:28; 2Ki 16:7-15; 2Ch 28:16-23

captains.

6,23

that they.

31; 2Ki 17:18,19; Ho 12:1,2

pourtrayed.

8:10; Isa 46:1; Jer 50:2

vermilion.

Jer 22:14

with girdles.

1Sa 18:4; Isa 22:21

all of.

Jud 8:18; 2Sa 14:25

look to.That is, "princes in appearance;" which seem to have been the deified men worshipped by the Chaldeans. The inhabitants of Judah, like the Israelites, connected themselves with the Assyrians, and were enamoured with their idols; and then with the Chaldeans, and followed their idols; still retaining their attachment to the Egyptians and their idolatrous rites.

as soon as she saw them with her eyes. Heb. at the sight ofher eyes.

16:29; Ge 3:6; 6:2; 39:7; 2Sa 11:2; 2Ki 24:1; Job 31:1; Ps 119:37

Pr 6:25; 23:33; Mt 5:28

and sent.

40,41; 16:17,29; 2Pe 2:14

Babylonians. Heb. children of Babel.

Ge 10:10; 11:9

and her.

22,28; 16:37; 2Sa 13:15

alienated. Heb. loosed, or disjointed.

discovered.

16:36; 21:24; Isa 3:9; Jer 8:12; Ho 7:1

then.

De 32:19; Ps 78:59; 106:40; Jer 6:8; 12:8; 15:1; La 2:7; Ho 2:2

Am 6:8; Zec 11:8

multiplied.

14; 16:25,29,51; Am 4:4

in calling.

3,8,21; 16:22; 20:7

16:20,26

17:15; Jer 5:8

21

Hosea 1:2

beginning.

Mr 1:1

Go.

3:1; Isa 20:2,3; Jer 13:1-11; Eze 4:1-5:17

a wife.That is, says Apb. Newcome, a wife from among the Israelites, who were a people remarkable for spiritual fornication or idolatry.

children.

2:4; 2Pe 2:14; *marg:

for.

Ex 34:15,16; De 31:16; 2Ch 21:13; Ps 73:27; 106:39; Jer 2:13

Jer 3:1-4,9; Eze 6:9; 16:1-63; 23:1-49; Re 17:1,2,5

Hosea 4:2

swearing.

Isa 24:5; 48:1; 59:2-8,12-15; Jer 5:1,2,7-9,26,27; 6:7; 7:6-10

Jer 9:2-8; 23:10-14; Eze 22:2-13,25-30; Mic 2:1-3; 3:2,9; 6:10; 7:2

Zep 3:1; Zec 5:3; 7:9

blood. Heb. bloods. toucheth.

5:2; 6:9; La 4:13; Mt 23:35; Ac 7:52; 1Th 2:15; Re 17:6

2 Corinthians 12:21

my God.

7; 8:24; 9:3,4

that I.

2:1-4; Ex 32:31; De 9:15,25; 1Sa 15:35; Ezr 9:3; 10:1; Ps 119:136

Jer 9:1; 13:17; Lu 9:41,42; Ro 9:2; Php 3:18,19

sinned.

13:2

and have not.

2:5-11; 7:9-11; 10:6; 1Co 6:9-11; Re 22:20

uncleanness.

Ro 13:13; 1Co 5:1,9-11; 6:15-18; Ga 5:19; Eph 5:5,6; Col 3:5

1Th 4:3-7; Heb 13:4; 1Pe 4:2,3; 2Pe 2:10-14,18; Jude 1:7,23

Re 21:8; 22:15