Jeremiah 2:34 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. ”

Jeremiah 2:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have not found it ... - Rather, thou didst not find them breaking into thy house. The meaning is, that these poor innocents had committed no crime: they were not thieves caught in the act, whom...
Jeremiah 2:34 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Also in thy (x) skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. (x) The prophets and the faithful are slain in every corner of...
Jeremiah 2:34 - 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 2:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

blood. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of the Subject), for the guilt of bloodshedding. souls . Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. poor . helpless. Hebrew. 'ebyon. See note on Proverbs 6:11 ....
Jeremiah 2:34 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet repeats, as I think, what he had before said, — that the wickedness of his nation was incorrigible; for they repented not when warned, but on the contrary raged like wild beasts aga...
Jeremiah 2:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. The blood of the souls of the poor innocents - We find from the sac...
Jeremiah 2:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. Also. Not only art thou polluted with idolatry, but also wi...
Jeremiah 2:34 - 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 2:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Also in thy skirts... — The general meaning is clear, and points to the guilt of Israel in offering her children — the “poor innocents” — in horrid sacrifice to Molech; perhaps, also, to her maltre...
Jeremiah 2:34 - 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 2:34 - 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 2:34 - 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 2:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents ,.... Either of the innocent infants of poor persons, who were sacrificed to Moloch; or of the poor prophets of the Lord, who...
Jeremiah 2:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. Ver. 34. Also in thy skirts. ] In the skirts of thy garments. He...
Jeremiah 2:34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love “The prophet,” says Lowth, “alludes to the practices of common harlots, who deck themselves, and use all inveigling arts, that they may recommend themselves t...
Jeremiah 2:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have...
Jeremiah 2:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In thy skirts, viz. of thy garments; a synecdoche of the kind; the tokens of thy cruelty may be seen openly there: or, in thy hands , as the LXX.: or a metaphor from birds of rapine, whose wings a...
Jeremiah 2:34 - 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 2:34 - 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 2:34 - 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 2:34 - 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 2:34 - 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 2:34 - 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 2:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Guilt Established
Jeremiah 2:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 21:16 ; 2 Kings 24:4 ; Ezekiel 16:20 ; Ezekiel 16:21 ; Ezekiel 20:31 ; Ezekiel 24:7 ; Isaiah 57:5 ; Isaiah 59:7 ; Jeremiah 19:4 ; Jeremiah 6:15 ; Jeremiah 7:31 ; Jeremiah 8:12 ;...
Jeremiah 2:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Skirts — Of thy garments: the tokens of cruelty may be seen openly there. Innocents — In thee is found the murder expressed here by blood of innocent persons, murdering souls as well as bodies. Sea...

Jeremiah 2:34 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 2:34 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 2:34 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 2:34 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 2:34 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:34 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 2:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 2:34 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:34 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:34 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 2:34 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 2:34 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 2:34 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:34 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes