Jeremiah 2:30

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.

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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 Nehe...
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)...
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 f...
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 habi...
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.
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...
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. - ( Jer...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Your prophets ] Such as Isaiah (said to have been sawn asunder) and Zechariah son of Jehoiada ( 2 Chronicles 24:20 ), and those whom Jezebel ( 1 Kin...
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 live...
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 sermo...
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 impeac...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. ...
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 th...
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 a...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES .— 1. Chronology. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpos...
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 a...
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...
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...
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 Ewa...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Guilt Established
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

In vain have I smitten your children, in endeavoring to bring them to their senses; they received no correction, they would not permit themselves to...
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:...
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 cor...

³⁰ In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 2:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 2:30