Jeremiah 2:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. ”

Jeremiah 2:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Why will (q) ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. (q) As though I did you injury in punishing you, seeing that your faults are so evident.
Jeremiah 2:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Deserved Punishment. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as tha...
Jeremiah 2:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah concludes here his previous subject: he says that the Jews gained nothing by alleging against God that they were innocent, and by thinking that they could by mere words escape his judg...
Jeremiah 2:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 2:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. Wherefore will ye plead with me? - i:e., contend with me for afflicting you ( Jeremiah 2:23 ; Jeremiah 2...
Jeremiah 2:29 - 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 2:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Wherefore will ye plead with me? — The reply of the accuser to the false pleas of the accused. The transgression was too open to be glossed over. No plea was available but that of a full confession...
Jeremiah 2:29 - 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 2:29 - 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 2:29 - 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 2:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wherefore will ye plead with me ?.... Strive and contend, chide, murmur, and complain, when evil came upon them, as if the Lord dealt hardly with them, and as if they had never sinned against him; w...
Jeremiah 2:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the LORD. Ver. 29. Wherefore will ye plead with me? ] Putting me to my proofs. Is not the case clear enough? Will ye n...
Jeremiah 2:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Wherefore will ye plead with me? Why do you insist upon your innocence? See Jeremiah 2:35 . Why do you lay claim to my former promises, as if you had not forfeited your title to them by your sins?...
Jeremiah 2:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have...
Jeremiah 2:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all: q.d. You are all at my mercy, why will you contend? all this that I charge you with is clear and evident, and all makes against you, Jeremiah 2:23,34 . W...
Jeremiah 2:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Challenges His People To Explain Why They Are Behaving As They Are ( Jeremiah 2:29-37 ). YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their favour when all they had previou...
Jeremiah 2:29 - 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 2:29 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:20-26 . For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing...
Jeremiah 2:29 - 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 2:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

How canst thou say, I am not polluted. Self-vindicating sinners reproved I. The self-vindicating ways of sinners. 1. Direct denial ( Genesis 4:9 ). 2. Vain excuse ( 1 Samuel 15:13-15 )....
Jeremiah 2:29 - 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 2:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wherefore will ye plead with Me? contending with the Lord as though He had no right to punish them. Ye all have transgressed against Me, saith the Lord, forsaking Him in rebellious wickedness.
Jeremiah 2:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 9:11 ; Jeremiah 2:23 ; Jeremiah 2:35 ; Jeremiah 3:2 ; Jeremiah 5:1 ; Jeremiah 6:13 ; Jeremiah 9:2-6 ; Romans 3:19

Jeremiah 2:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 2:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 2:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 2:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 2:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 2:29 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:29 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 2:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 2:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 2:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge