Jeremiah 2:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. ”

Jeremiah 2:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Nitre - Or, natron, a mineral alkali, found in the Nile valley, where it effloresces upon the rocks and surfaces of the dykes, and in old time was carefully collected, and used to make lye for wa...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

For though thou shalt wash thee with (g) lye, and take thee much soap, [yet] thy iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. (g) Though you use all the purifications and ceremonies of the law,...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

nitre: i.e.. mineral alkali. In Palestine. compound of soap. sope . soap. marked . graven.
Jeremiah 2:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

We have already seen, and the Prophet will often repeat the same thing, — that the people were become so refractory that they would not willingly give way to any reproofs; for they were almost...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. For though thou wash thee with nitre - It should be rendered natar or natr...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Though thou wash thee with nitre— See Proverbs 25:20 and Scheuchzer's observations on the place. See Virg. Georg. 3:
Jeremiah 2:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. Nitre - not what is now so called, namely, salt-petre; but the natro...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Nitre. — The mineral alkali found in the natron lakes of Egypt that took their name from it. The Hebrew word nether is the origin of the Greek and English words. (Comp. Proverbs 25:20 .) Sop...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Jeremiah 2:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Jeremiah 2:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For though thou wash thee with nitre ,.... The word נתר, "nitre", is only used in this place and in Proverbs 25:20 and it is hard to say what it is. Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that some say it...
Jeremiah 2:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 22. For though thou wash thee with nitre. ] Much used of old by fu...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For though thou wash thee with nitre , &c. Though thou shouldest use ever so many methods of washing away thy sins, such as the rites of expiation prescribed by the law, or practised by idolater...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Though interpreters do greatly vary. in describing what is particularly meant here by nitre and soap, and it would be superfluous to mention here; yet all agree they are some materials that artists...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

They Had Broken Free From YHWH To Worship False Gods And Had Thereby Become Defiled With A Defilement And A Degeneracy That They Could Not Remove, While Still Incredibly Claiming That They Had Not B...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 2:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 2:22 The nitre here mentioned was a mineral substance, and the soap was a vegetable substance, both employed for the purpose of removing spots; and the meaning is, "Adopt what means you m...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 esp...
Jeremiah 2:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Jeremiah 2:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Though thou wash thee with nitre. No self-expiation One of the shortest, but most pregnant, words in our language is sin. And yet it is one of those words least understood. The whole system of...
Jeremiah 2:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Jeremiah 2:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Sin of Idolatry
Jeremiah 2:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:7 ; Deuteronomy 32:34 ; Hosea 13:12 ; Jeremiah 16:17 ; Jeremiah 17:1 ; Job 14:17 ; Job 9:30 ; Job 9:31 ; Psalms 130:3 ; Psalms 90:8
Jeremiah 2:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Nitre — Though interpreters do greatly vary in describing what is particularly meant here by Nitre and Soap, and would be superfluous to mention here; yet all agree, they are some materials that ar...

Jeremiah 2:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 2:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 2:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 2:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 2:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 2:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 2:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 2:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 2:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 2:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 2:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes