“ Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? ”
It was Israel’s glory to be Yahweh’s servant Jeremiah 30:10 , and slaves born in the house were more prized than those bought with money as being more faithful Genesis 14:14 . Cannot Yahweh guard...
[Is] Israel a (u) servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he laid waste? (u) Have I ordered them like servants and not like dearly beloved children? ( Exodus 4:22 ) therefore it is their fault o...
Israel's False Religion. Israel has forfeited the privileges of a son, and incurred disaster by forsaking Yahweh for the sensuous worship of the Baalim ( cf. Jeremiah 2:20 ; Jeremiah 2:28 ). Je...
servant?... slave? They were treated as such by Assyria, and afterward by Egypt. spoiled . become. spoil.
These verses are to be read together; for the Prophet first shews that Israel was not as to his original condition miserable, but that this happened through a new cause, and then he mentions th...
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave ? why is he spoiled? Is Israel a servant? - Is he a slave purchased with money, or a servant born in the family? He is a son himself. If so, then, why...
Is Israel a servant?— "Is he of a condition to be delivered as a prey to his enemies? Is he of those people whom God regards as slaves and strangers? Is he not the son, the chosen and peculiar peop...
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled? Is he a home-born slave? - No. ( Exodus 4:22 , "Thus saith the Lord (Yahweh), Israel is my son, even my first-born.") Jeremiah...
Jeremiah's Second Prophecy (2:1-3:5) The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness to Jehovah. 1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the people...
Is Israel a servant? — The word “servant,” we must remember, had become, through its frequent use in Isaiah ( Isaiah 20:3 ; Isaiah 41:8 , et al. ) , a word not of shame, but honour; and of all s...
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1-37 ; Jeremiah 3:1-5 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin...
The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem. This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel...
I include all these verses under one view, as the doctrine is one and the same, though varied with several similitudes. But the whole is intended to show, to what a degenerate state the Church was re...
Is Israel a servant ?.... That he does not abide in the house, in his own land, but is carried captive, becomes subject to others, and is used as a slave; so the Targum, "as a servant;'' is he not...
Jeremiah 2:14 [Is] Israel a servant? [is] he a homeborn [slave]? why is he spoiled? Ver. 14. Is Israel a servant? ] sc., Bought with money. a Is he a homeborn slave?] Verna, a slave by...
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? Is he of a condition to be delivered as a prey to his enemies? Is he of those people whom God regards as slaves and strangers? These interrogations imp...
Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. 14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born...
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? did I ever account him so? or did I not rather always reckon him my first-born? so some, as Jeremiah 2:31 . But it may better relate to his sad cond...
It Is Pointed Out That It Is Because Of Their Incredible Behaviour That They Have Undergone, And Are Undergoing, Their Present Distresses ( Jeremiah 2:14-19 ). It is apparent from the words that f...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES .— 1. Chronology. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till a...
Jeremiah 2:1-3 . Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 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 es...
Jeremiah 2:2 . I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth. God now addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom...
Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he spoiled? Israel a home-born slave Is this a contemptuous inquiry?--Israel a servant, Israel a home-born slave. Is there not scorn underl...
EXPOSITION The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses (Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald (and the position of the prophecy favors this v...
Is Israel a servant? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he spoiled? The question, whether asked by the prophet or directly by God, expresses surprise that the nation which was once God's favorite should...
Ecclesiastes 2:7 ; Exodus 4:22 ; Genesis 15:3 ; Isaiah 50:1
A slave — Slave is here added to home — born to express the baseness of his service, because the master had power to make those slaves who were born of slaves in his house. Why — Why is he thus tyr...