Jeremiah 2:30 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. ”

Jeremiah 2:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Your own sword hath detoured your prophets - An allusion probably to Manasseh 2 Kings 21:16 . Death was the usual fate of the true prophet Nehemiah 9:26 ; Matthew 23:37 .
Jeremiah 2:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

In vain have I smitten your children; they have received no correction: your (r) own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. (r) That is, you have killed your prophets, that exhor...
Jeremiah 2:30 - 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 2:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

devoured your prophets. See 1 Kings 18:4 ; 1 Kings 18:13 . 2Ki 21:16. 2 Chronicles 24:21 . Compare Matthew 23:37 ; Luke 11:47 ; Acts 7:51 ; Acts 7:52 .
Jeremiah 2:30 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Some expound the beginning of this verse as though the meaning were, — that God chastised the Jews on account of their folly, because they habituated themselves to falsehoods: but the latter cl...
Jeremiah 2:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
Jeremiah 2:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Your own sword hath devoured your prophets— That is to say, "You yourselves have put your prophets to death for reproving you." Thus Asa and Joash were put to death in the reign of Manasseh; see 1...
Jeremiah 2:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. - ( Jeremiah 5:3 ; Jeremiah 6:29 ; Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah...
Jeremiah 2:30 - 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 2:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Your own sword hath devoured your prophets. — So in the long reign of Manasseh, the prophets who rebuked him had to do so at the risk of their lives. Isaiah, as the tradition ran, had been foremost...
Jeremiah 2:30 - 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 2:30 - 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 2:30 - 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 2:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

In vain have I smitten your children ,.... Or, "for vanity" g; for vain speaking, for making vain oaths and vows; so it is explained in the Talmud h; but the sense is, that the rod of chastisement w...
Jeremiah 2:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. Ver. 30. In vain have I smitten your children. ] My hammers h...
Jeremiah 2:30 - 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 2:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have...
Jeremiah 2:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Your children; either your posterity, that you breed up like yourselves; or rather, your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city, or such a place: child...
Jeremiah 2:30 - 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 2:30 - 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 2:30 - 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 2:30 - 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 2:30 - 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 2:30 - 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 2:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Guilt Established
Jeremiah 2:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 19:10 ; 1 Kings 19:14 ; 1 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 2 Chronicles 24:21 ; 2 Chronicles 28:22 ; 2 Chronicles 36:16 ; Acts 7:52 ; Ezekiel 24:13 ; Isaiah 1:5 ; Isaiah 9:13 ; Jeremiah 26:20-...
Jeremiah 2:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Children — Your inhabitants in every city, they being frequently called the children of such a city. Correction — Instruction: though they were corrected, yet they would not be instructed. Your swo...

Jeremiah 2:30 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 2:30 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 2:30 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 2:30 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 2:30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:30 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 2:30 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 2:30 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:30 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:30 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 2:30 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 2:30 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 2:30 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:30 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes