Jeremiah 17:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. ”

Jeremiah 17:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

While their children remember their altars - Perhaps an allusion to their sacrifices of children to Moloch. Present perhaps at some such blood-stained rite, its horrors would be engraven forever...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(d) While their children remember their altars and their idols by the green trees upon the high hills. (d) Some read, "So that their children remember their altars", that is, follow their father's w...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 16:1 to Jeremiah 17:18 . The Coming Distress a Penalty for Sin. The prophet is forbidden to found a family, because of the coming sorrows ( cf. 1 Corinthians 7:29 ff.), in which deat...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

children . sons. groves = Asherim (plural) See App-42. the green trees. Some codices, with Aram, and Syriac, read "by every green tree". upon. Some codices, with one early printed edition...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Interpreters seem not to me to have perceived the design of the Prophet here, at least they have not clearly explained the subject. He proceeds, as I think, with what he said at the end of the...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. Whilst their children remember - Even the rising generation have their imagination stocked with id...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves - instead of forsaking the id...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-4. The sin of Judah is indelible. Hence the severity of the punishment.
Jeremiah 17:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Whilst their children remember... — If we take “children” as referring to age, there may be a reference to the way in which the horrors of Molech worship were burnt in upon the minds of boys who we...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER IX THE DROUGHT AND ITS MORAL IMPLICATIONS Jeremiah 14:1-22 ; Jeremiah 15:1-21 (17?) VARIOUS opinions have been expressed about the division of these Chapter s. They have been cut up i...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Human and Divine Help Contrasted Jeremiah 17:1-14 The Jews were always seeking alliance either with Egypt or Babylon. What was true of them applies to us all; but we cannot depend upon human ai...
Jeremiah 17:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Once again Jehovah declared His determination to deal with the people in judgment, because of the defiant definiteness of their sin. That sin was "written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What is here said of Judah's sin, may be equally said of all men's sins: they are cut in and formed in the very heart. Nothing short of a new heart, wrought by the Lord himself, can form a change. E...
Jeremiah 17:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Whilst their children remember their altars ,.... Which is a further proof of their long continuance in idolatrous practices, and a fresh witness against them; they trained up their children in them...
Jeremiah 17:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. Ver. 2. While their children remember their altars. ] Or, As they remember their children, so t...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron Many of the Jews, though living in the habitual commission of the grossest crimes, were, nevertheless, self-righteous, and thought they did not deserv...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Guilt of Judah. B. C. 605. 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This showed how inveterate they were in this sin of idolatry, that they taught it their children, and their children remembered their idolatrous altars and the groves where they were wont to worship...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Depths Of Judah's Sin And Its Consequences ( Jeremiah 17:1-4 ). The thought of what YHWH is going to do in the future brings Jeremiah back to the present to consider Judah's current state and...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES. —1. Chronology of the Chapter. Jeremiah 17:1-18 continue the prophecy of chap. 16. A distinct break in the continuity of the book is noticeable at Jeremiah 17:19 ....
Jeremiah 17:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 17:1 . The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: It is so ingrained in their very nature that you might as well try to erase an inscription that i...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 17:1 . The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron. Yea, it is deeply written on the heart, as the diamond will write on polished stones, on tablets of brass, or on the brazen altars o...
Jeremiah 17:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 17:1-24 are closely connected with the preceding chapter. We have just been pointed to the striking contrast between the conduct of the heathen and that of the backsliding...
Jeremiah 17:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Reason for Judah's Rejection
Jeremiah 17:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 24:18 ; 2 Chronicles 33:19 ; 2 Chronicles 33:3 ; Ezekiel 20:28 ; Hosea 4:13 ; Hosea 4:14 ; Isaiah 1:29 ; Isaiah 17:8 ; Jeremiah 2:20 ; Jeremiah 7:18 ; Judges 3:7 ; Psalms 78:...
Jeremiah 17:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Their children — This shewed how inveterate they were in this sin of idolatry, that they taught it their children.

Jeremiah 17:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 17:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 17:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 17:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 17:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 17:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 17:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 17:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 17:2 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 17:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 17:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 17:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 17:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 17:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes