Jeremiah 2:32 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. ”

Jeremiah 2:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A bride treasures all her life the girdle, which first indicated that she was a married woman, just as brides now treasure the wedding ring; but Israel, Yahweh’s bride Jeremiah 2:2 , cherishes no...
Jeremiah 2:32 - 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 2:32 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

God here confirms what is said in the last verse, and would make his people ashamed, because they valued him less than girls are wont to value their ornaments. The necklaces of young women are...
Jeremiah 2:32 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1031 GOD’S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE REBELLIOUS Jeremiah 2:31-32 . O generation, see ye the word of the Lord; Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? Wherefore say my pe...
Jeremiah 2:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Can a maid forget her ornaments - This people has not so much attachment to me as young...
Jeremiah 2:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Can a maid forget - Oriental females greatly pride themselves on their ornaments (...
Jeremiah 2:32 - 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 2:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Or a bride her attire. — The word is rendered “headbands” in Isaiah 3:20 , but here it probably means the “girdle” which formed the special distinction of the wife as contrasted with the maiden. S...
Jeremiah 2:32 - 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 2:32 - 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 2:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what this Chapter affords, from beginning to end. The Lord sends the Prop...
Jeremiah 2:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Can a maid forget her ornaments ,.... Which she has provided for her wedding day, and is then to wear, and which may be the next; such as ear rings, bracelets, and jewels, which are never out of her...
Jeremiah 2:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Ver. 32. Can a maid forget her ornaments? ] Not lightly or easily, as minding them ma...
Jeremiah 2:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

O generation O wicked generation; see ye the word of the Lord Consider what I say to you from the mouth of God. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? Have ye not been plentifully provided for b...
Jeremiah 2:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have...
Jeremiah 2:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Can a maid forget her ornaments? how seldom is it, and how unlikely, that a maid should forget her ornaments! Or a bride her attire? whether it belongs to the head, or the breast, or arms, whethe...
Jeremiah 2:32 - 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 2:32 - 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 2:32 - 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 2:32 - 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 2:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? Divine questions The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? have I been a land of darkness unto Israel?” Spea...
Jeremiah 2:32 - 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 2:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Guilt Established
Jeremiah 2:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 3:3-5 ; 2 Samuel 1:24 ; Ezekiel 16:10-13 ; Ezekiel 22:12 ; Genesis 24:22 ; Genesis 24:30 ; Genesis 24:53 ; Hosea 8:14 ; Isaiah 17:10 ; Isaiah 61:10 ; Jeremiah 13:10 ; Jeremiah 13:...
Jeremiah 2:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A maid — How unlikely is it, that a maid should forget her ornaments? A bride — Those jewels which the bridegroom was wont to present his bride with. Forgotten — In the neglect of my worship; me, w...

Jeremiah 2:32 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Jeremiah 2:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 2:32 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 2:32 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 2:32 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:32 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 2:32 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 2:32 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:32 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:32 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 2:32 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 2:32 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 2:32 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:32 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes